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Southern Shrimp and Grits
Creamy polenta grits topped with sautéed shrimp in bacon gravy.
⏱ 40 min🔥 420 kcalMedium
★4.8(2,700)
10 recipes using shrimp — Burgers, BBQ, mac & cheese and comfort food classics.
These 10 american shrimp recipes are ready in about 78 minutes on average, with 420–612 kcal per serving, and 20% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
American cooking is a melting pot of comfort food — from slow-smoked barbecue to skillet classics, big on bold, crowd-pleasing flavour. When American cooks work with shrimp, they reach for butter, smoked paprika, brown sugar, mustard, hot sauce and good stock, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and sautéing.
Sweet, quick-cooking shellfish that go from raw to ready in two or three minutes — perfect for fast, high-heat dishes. In this collection it's most often cooked with garlic, all-purpose flour, cajun seasoning, yellow onion, celery and green bell pepper. The dishes here span american classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Low Country Boil is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 4,400 ratings.
Creamy polenta grits topped with sautéed shrimp in bacon gravy.
Classic American Creole Jambalaya recipe.
Classic American Shrimp Scampi recipe.
Classic American Low Country recipe.
Classic American Shrimp Po'Boy recipe.
Classic American Po'Boy Sandwich recipe.
Tomato-based Creole red jambalaya with sausage, chicken, and shrimp over rice.
Crispy fried shrimp dressed in a New Orleans French roll.
Gulf shrimp smothered in a buttery blond-roux Cajun gravy.
Hearty Creole rice dish with andouille sausage, shrimp, chicken and the holy trinity of Cajun cooking.
Look for firm, translucent flesh with a clean sea smell — never ammonia. Shell-on shrimp keep more flavour; larger counts (fewer per kilo) mean bigger shrimp.
Peel and devein, leaving the tail on for presentation if you like. A quick brine firms the texture; pat dry before searing so they brown rather than steam.
Cook just until they curl into a loose C and turn opaque pink — a tight O means they're overdone and rubbery.
Very lean and high in protein, with selenium, vitamin B12 and iodine for few calories.
Most of these 10 American shrimp recipes are ready in around 78 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Southern Shrimp and Grits, takes about 40 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 126 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 420 to 612 kcal per serving, averaging 499 kcal — Southern Shrimp and Grits is the lightest option at 420 kcal.
Low Country Boil is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 98 minutes. 20% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, shrimp is most often paired with garlic, all-purpose flour, cajun seasoning, yellow onion, celery and green bell pepper. American kitchens also lean on butter, smoked paprika, brown sugar, mustard, hot sauce and good stock.
Cook just until they curl into a loose C and turn opaque pink — a tight O means they're overdone and rubbery.