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Easy Smoked Shrimp

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This smoked shrimp recipe is an easy paleo, keto, Whole30, and gluten-free appetizer or main dish. Serve them with a simple herb garlic sauce or your favorite seafood dipping sauce.

Smoked shrimp are an easy paleo, gluten-free appetizer or main dish. Serve them with a simple herb garlic butter or your favorite dipping sauce. | cookeatpaleo.com

Smoked shrimp are an easy appetizer or main dish to make for a quick dinner or to feed a crowd. And the possibilities are endless for dipping sauces — cocktail sauce, honey mustard, even guacamole — but today I served them simply tossed with a garlic herb butter (made with grass-fed ghee). They were perfect with a quick summer tomato and cucumber salad.

How long to smoke shrimp

Think smoking shrimp is complicated or time-consuming? It’s not—it’s actually one of the quickest and easiest foods to smoke once you learn how to do it.

The key to smoking shrimp is not to overcook them. I can’t emphasize this enough. Unlike a thick cut of meat, shrimp smoke quickly and will be done in 20 minutes or so, depending on the heat of your smoker and the size of your shrimp. You definitely need to keep an eye on them. I start checking them at 10 minutes and keep checking them until they are just cooked through.

Smoked shimp recipe | gluten-free, paleo

How to smoke shrimp

I’ve smoked shrimp both peeled and unpeeled, and they are good both ways. If you have shell-on shrimp, go ahead and throw them on the smoker that way and serve them as “peel and eat” shrimp with the garlic butter sauce for dipping.

Either way, toss them with a little olive oil, salt, and pepper before putting them on the smoker. This helps keep them from drying out while they smoke. I like to use a garlic infused olive oil for a little extra flavor.

And serve them with this simple herb garlic sauce or your favorite dipping sauce. This post includes affiliate links to recommended products. You can read my full disclosure here.

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Easy Smoked Shrimp Recipe

This easy smoked shrimp recipe can be done in a smoker or with indirect heat on a grill.
Prep Time5 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Total Time25 mins
Course: Appetizer, Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: BBQ, Smoker
Diet: Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Keto, Low Carb, Paleo, Whole30
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 244kcal
Author: Lisa Wells

Ingredients

  • 1 pound shrimp deveined
  • 1 tablespoon garlic infused olive oil
  • sea salt to taste
  • fresh ground pepper to taste
  • 1/4 cup grass-fed ghee melted
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1 tablespoon fresh basil and/or parsley minced

Instructions

  • Preheat smoker or grill on low heat and add wood chips according to manufacturer's instructions.
  • Toss shrimp with olive oil, salt and pepper.
  • Lay shrimp on smoker rack in a single layer and close the lid. Check shrimp after 10 minutes and keep a close eye on them. Smoke shrimp until just cooked through, about 15-20 minutes total.
  • While shrimp are smoking, combine ghee or butter, garlic, herbs and salt to taste. Drizzle over cooked shrimp and toss to coat. Serve remaining garlic herb butter as a dipping sauce.

Notes

For dairy-free: substitute olive oil for ghee in sauce

Nutrition

Calories: 244kcal | Carbohydrates: 0g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 314mg | Sodium: 881mg | Potassium: 90mg | Sugar: 0g | Vitamin A: 25IU | Vitamin C: 4.9mg | Calcium: 164mg | Iron: 2.4mg

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  1. Sabrina B.

    July 21, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    great reminder, I delve into shrimp every once in a long while, usually because of the prep, but love the idea of smoking shrimp, nice flavor addition, thank you!

    Reply
  2. madison

    January 29, 2018 at 9:27 am

    Amazing! My all time favorite! I like your blog because the recipes that you post is very easy to prepare. I think the only trick to this dish is not to overcook them.

    Reply
  3. Phil

    July 19, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    What temperature?

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    • Lisa

      August 07, 2020 at 3:12 pm

      Use a low temperature (in the 200 to 250 range).

      Reply

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