Flavorful Shrimp Boil Recipe
If you’ve never made a shrimp boil, before fresh sweet corn goes out of season, this is the time to do it! For this shrimp boil, I used potatoes, corn, and shrimp. You can always add sausage as well if you enjoy it. I made a homemade stock, which I then used to boil the potatoes, corn, and shrimp. If you don’t want to make your own stock, you can use a store bought stock. However, I urge you to make the horseradish-spiked butter. It adds such an incredible depth of flavor to everything. Melted butter is always lovely, but butter spiked with stock, garlic, Old Bay Seasoning, lemon juice, horseradish, and a pinch of red pepper flakes if just out of this world!
Shrimp Boil Ingredients
I am breaking this down into three sections — the stock, the actual shrimp boil ingredients, and then the horseradish butter. What you’re making here is essentially an ultra flavorful butter garlic shrimp, potatoes and corn recipe
For the stock:
Water Beer Carrots Head of garlic Celery stalks Prepared yellow or Dijon mustard Kosher salt OR use store bought vegetable or chicken stock
For the shrimp boil:
Baby red potatoes Corn Shrimp
For the horseradish butter sauce:
Unsalted butter Stock Garlic Prepared horseradish Old Bay Seasoning Black pepper or red pepper flakes Salt Parsley, optional for garnishing Lemon wedges, for serving
How to Make a Shrimp Boil
Making a shrimp boil with corn and potatoes requires more time than you’d likely spend in the kitchen, but waiting for everything to boil and cook through is the only “hard” part about this recipe! In addition to Old Bay, I flavor my shrimp boil with freshly ground black pepper, red pepper flakes, and prepared horseradish. Fresh parsley and lemon wedges are added at the very end as garnish.
Step 1: Make the stock
If you don’t want to make your own stock and are pressed for time or energy, as I already mentioned, just use store-bought chicken or vegetable stock.
Step 2: Add the potatoes & corn
Step 3: Add the shrimp
Step 4: Make the horseradish butter sauce
Tips for Cooking Shrimp Boil
When you’re purchasing the fresh shrimp, ask your butcher or fish monger to clean and devein the shrimp for you to save time later on. It doesn’t cost any more, and later on it’s easier for you. Go to the fish and seafood counter first, ask them to do this, carry on with the rest of your shopping, and when you’re about done, they’ll be done with the cleaning and deveining. If you’re going the way of using store-bought stock, an easy way to impart more flavor with basically no extra work is to slice an onion in quarters and add it to the boiling stock before you drop the potatoes in. You can use whatever onion you like – red, yellow, or white.
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