Among the wide range of items on the seafood menu, grilled prawns are the easiest and simple dish to make at home. The trendy meal of the grilling season is one of the most scrumptious and savory food on your seafood menu. In addition to easy and quick preparation, it also takes very little time to grill them to perfection.
However, if you want to satisfy your sudden seafood menu craving and don’t have prawns to grill. You can visit or order the best-ever grilled prawns in town from Red Crab Juicy Seafood.
Here is the super quick and easy-to-follow recipe to make the most flavorful and delicious grilled prawn on the stove.
Things you will need:
To make the perfect garlic butter grilled prawns, you will need:
- 1 lb. of large prawns with tails on
- 1 tbsp. dry parsley
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp. onion powder
- garlic powder
- 1 tsp. paprika
- 1 tsp. lemon pepper seasoning
- 1tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
- 1 stick of unsalted butter
What is The Best Type of Prawns for Grilling
Knowing what Kind of prawns will bring amazing results when grilled is important. Although you can grill every prawn, some of them taste much better.
- Firstly, make sure to use the bigger prawns for grilling. The bigger the size, the better will be the results. This is because the large size helps to maintain the softness of the shrimp meat and resist overcooking. Also, don’t forget, the prawns’ tendency to shrink when you cook them. Thus, the perfect size of the prawns for grilling is 15 to 20 shrimp per pound.
- Make sure to buy frozen prawns for grilling. To make sure you have the fresh and best flavor of the prawns, always buy frozen prawns, and thaw them yourself.
- Leaving the head or tail on, is completely up to your preference. You can behead your prawns, remove the tail, keep the shell on, or peel it off before grilling. However, when you are grilling on the stove it is more suitable to have them peeled off. You can leave the tail on for scrumptious flavor.
How to Marinate Prawns to Perfection
Once you have all the ingredients sorted out, you can start with the quick and easy seasoning of your prawns. Follow these steps to marinate your prawns to bring the most delicious flavor out.
- Begin by drizzling a little oil into the bowl of prawns and mixing it well.
- Then, add all your seasoning including onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, lemon pepper seasoning, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and salt.
- Mix it well with your hands so that the prawns can be mixed thoroughly with all the spices.
- Finally, leave the seasoned or marinated prawns for about 10 to 15 minutes in the refrigerator.
How to Stovetop Grill Prawns
Just like the easy marination, grilling the prawns on the stove is quick and easy. You can use a grill or oven for better taste. However, if you don’t have one, don’t worry. The prawns grilled on the top stove taste no less. To make grilled prawns on the stove:
- Take a frying pan or a skillet and add about 2 to 3 tablespoons of avocado oil in it. (If you don’t have avocado oil, you can also use any cooking oil of your choice.)
- Once it is nice and hot, add in your marinated prawns one by one with the help of pair of tongs.
- Also, make sure to cook the shrimp for only one minute per side.
- Once the prawn starts getting its golden-brown color while its tail turns pink, you can flip them over.
- After you flip them over, allow the other side to cook for one minute too.
Once you’ve grilled your prawns, remove them from the pan. Set them aside while you start working on the mouthwatering garlic butter sauce.
How to Prepare the Delicious Garlic Butter Sauce
To make the absolutely delicious garlic butter sauce for your grilled prawns, you need to follow the quick and simple steps below.
- Into the same skillet or pan, in which you grilled the prawns earlier, add one stick of unsalted butter. You can also use a new pan. However, the same skillet will have the prawn flavor and tempting aroma. Hence it will result in a more delicious sauce.
- Once the butter is melted nicely, you now add minced garlic. You can also use garlic powder. But using fresh garlic clove gives you the advantage of bringing a much stronger and fresher flavor.
- Then cook it for about 30 seconds. Make sure to stir it well during the process.
- The next step is adding the dry parsley inside and mixing it well.
Once the garlic butter sauce is ready, you can add your grilled prawns from earlier. At this stage, you can turn off the stove, and you just need to mix the sauce with the prawns. This is because the prawns are already cooked.
This is how super easy to make yourself a perfect and delicious grilled prawn on the stove. Now place them on a nice and decent plater. Your scrumptious grilled prawns are ready to savor.
What To Serve with Grilled Prawns
Grilled prawns pair well with vegetables like potatoes, sliced red onions, broccoli, and eggplant. Vegetable mayo salad or dry salad like tomato salad or creamy cucumber salad would also complement it well. Moreover, you can also serve macaroni or pasta as a side with grilled prawns.
In addition, you can also squeeze some lemon on your grilled prawns to enhance their flavor. Also, the complementary sauces like Cajun sauce, cocktail dip, or mayo garlic sauce taste amazing with hot and juice garlic butter prawns.
However, do not pair it with other fish. Also do not pair it with other kinds of meat. As prawns are already rich in protein, hence they not only satisfy your cravings but also soothe your hunger.
The perfect beverage to complement grilled prawns is white wine. Avoid pairing it up with red wine.
Conclusion
Making the most satisfying and flavorful grilled prawns on the stove is super quick and easy. The recipe requires very obtainable and everyday ingredients. In addition, it takes two to three minutes to cook the prawns. With just a few simple and easy-to-follow steps discussed above, you can now prepare your scrumptious grilled prawns at home.