Blackened Shrimp

Mille® 's Note:

I guarantee that this will wake up every single one of your heat-loving taste buds!

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 32 raw peeled large shrimp
• ¼ lb unsalted butter
• mushroom (optional)
• tomato (optional)
• onion (optional)
• bell pepper , sliced (optional)

Blackening Spice Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon ground basil
• 1 teaspoon ground thyme
• 1 teaspoon garlic
• 1 teaspoon white pepper
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt (sea salt is best)
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika

Directions:

1. Mix spice ingredients thoroughly in a small bowl (make a double or triple batch and store the remainder for later use!) Dredge shrimp through the mixture.
2. Place a large skillet over a very high heat, and melt the butter.
3. Place the shrimp in the skillet and turn heat down to medium.
4. Cook on both sides for approximately 7 minutes (maybe less) each- pay attention to the shrimp as they cook quickly; when the shrimp curl, they are done.
5. Optional – sprinkle the vegetables with the spice mix and sauté in the butter in the same skillet.
6. Serve with lots of garlic bread and ice-cold beer or chilled white wine.

Reviews

[yogi]

Super delicious! We were all licking our fingers. I used much less cayenne, and they were still pretty spicy. Everyone started coughing while this was frying...guess the spices were overwhelming us...ha! ha!

[Virginia Chandler]

WOW, if you like spicy you will love this, we did!!!!!! We used the entire 2 tsp of cayenne and loved it, we did drink several beers to cool our mouths!!!!! We also added the veggies, 8oz of sliced mushrooms, 1 can of diced tomato's, 1 onion sliced into rings and 2 green peppers cut into rings. Excelent!!!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!

[Chef #1384555]

This was fabulous. I served it with Lemon Garlic Pasta. My family loved it. Thank you so much.