This quick and Easy Shrimp Boil is a flavorful one-pot meal fit for a crowd! It’s packed with potatoes, corn, shrimp and sausage.
Call ALL your friends and tell them bring over some beer. We’re having a shrimp boil y’all! It’s one of the easiest ways to serve a crowd and yeah, it’s pretty fun to eat too! The trick to a shrimp boil is to add in all the ingredients at the right time to layer the flavor and cook everything to perfection.
The boil starts with the aromatics for some serious flavor with the onion, lemon, thyme, garlic and old bay seasoning. Once everything’s good and flavored, then the rest of the ingredients go in one by one to cook in sequence. No need to heat up the house on an already hot summer evening. I used an outdoor propane burner topped with a giant stock pot and it worked great!
Added one by one, everything cooks perfectly! Skip the plates and silverware, but be sure to grab some napkins. Lay some newspaper or butcher paper on the picnic table and get your shrimp on!
Melted butter with a pinch of red pepper flakes or a dash of hot sauce is all the condiment you need for this flavorful dish. Serve it up with a generous pour of your favorite local brew. #SummerLove
Easy Shrimp Boil
This quick and Easy Shrimp Boil is a flavorful one-pot meal fit for a crowd! It’s packed with potatoes, corn, shrimp and sausage.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 4 Servings 1x
Ingredients
- 4 quarts water
- 1 bottle (12 ounces) beer
- 2 lemons, halved
- 1/2 cup old bay seasoning
- 10 cloves garlic
- 6 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 pound baby red potatoes
- 1 red onion, cut into wedges
- 1 pound smoked sausage, cut into 2-inch pieces (Andouille or Kielbasa)
- 4 ears corn, cleaned, halved
- 1 1/2 pounds medium shrimp, unpeeled, deveined
- 2 lemons, cut into wedges
- Melted butter, for serving
- Hot sauce, for serving
- Garlic French Bread, for serving
Instructions
- Bring water, beer, the juice from 2 lemons and the squeezed lemons, old bay seasoning, garlic, thyme, salt and red pepper flakes to boil in 12-quart stockpot on high heat. Add the potatoes and onions; cook 8 minutes. Add the smoked sausage; cook 7 minutes. Add the corn; cook 6 minutes.
- Stir in shrimp; cook 5 minutes or just until shrimp turns pink.
- Carefully drain the cooking liquid. Pour the shrimp mixture onto a table covered in paper or a large baking sheet. Sprinkle with additional old bay seasoning if desired. Serve with additional sliced lemons, melted butter, hot sauce and garlic bread.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories: 621
- Sugar: 7g
- Sodium: 980mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9g
- Carbohydrates: 30g
- Fiber: 4g
- Protein: 23g
- Cholesterol: 180mg
Have you ever made a shrimp or seafood boil? What did you think?
On the hunt for more shrimp? Here ya go…
Big Easy Style Saucy Creole Shrimp from Half Baked Harvest
Gochujang-Honey Glazed Shrimp from Skinny Taste
Miso Butter Shrimp from Steamy Kitchen
Or, make up my Bourbon and Honey Garlic Shrimp recipe…
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