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photo of: ray's on the river bbq butter shrimp
Ingredients
  • BBQ Compound Butter
  • 2# Butter
  • 2oz. Garlic, finely minced
  • 2.5oz. Worcestershire sauce
  • 4oz. Lemon juice
  • 5 Tab. Ground Black Pepper
  • 10-dash Tabasco sauce
  • 3 Tab. Paprika
  • 2 tsp. Ground Cayenne Pepper
  • 1.5 Tab. Salt
  • 2 tsp. Fresh Thyme, chopped fine
  • 1 tsp. Fresh Rosemary, chopped fine
  • 2 tsp. Fresh Oregano, chopped fine
  • BBQ Butter Sauce
  • 12oz. Beer, Dixie, Budweiser or any lighter beer
  • 2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 1.5 # BBQ Compound Butter
  • Shrimp
  • 16ea. 16-20 Size Shrimp, Ocean Garden Mexican White
  • 4 ea. Green onions, green part only, cut on a severe bias cut.
  • 1 oz. Canola oil
  • 4 pieces crusty French bread, brushed with butter and grilled
  • Crispy fried tobacco onions for garnish (optional)
  • Salt
  • Fresh Ground Black Pepper
  • Blackening Spice, for seasoning

Ray's on the River BBQ Butter Shrimp

Yield 4 servings

cuisine: American

meal type: Entrée

technique: Sautéed

When the gang comes over to watch the game, wow them with this Tangy, mouth watering babrbque shrimp. Shrimp is so easy and quick to prepare that you can whip this up and have it ready by the seventh inning stretch.

Instructions

BBQ Compound Butter

Soften butter to room temperature. Place the butter in a food processor with all the rest of the ingredients and blend until smooth. Remove and chill completely.

Yield 2.25 Pounds

BBQ Butter Sauce

In a saucepot add the beer and reduce by half. Add the cream and reduce the cream by half to three quarters. Remove from the heat and slowly add the BBQ butter stiring until all the butter is incorporated. Adjust the seasoning if needed with salt, pepper, lemon or Tabasco. Hold for service.

Yield 1 Quart

Shrimp

Season both sides of the shrimp with salt, pepper and blackening spice. Place the oil in a sauté pan and heat over medium high heat until almost smoking. Add the shrimp and sauté until just translucent in the center and crisp on the outside, remove from the heat, and hold for service. Place bread in the center of the plate, pour the sauce around the bread and place the shrimp around the plate. Garnish with the crispy onions and the green onions.

Source: Recipe compliments of Ocean Garden Products, Inc.and Executive Chef Gregg McCarthy, Atlanta
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