Spicy Crab Stuffed Shrimp Recipes

CRAB CAKE STUFFED SHRIMP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Add onion, red bell pepper, and green bell pepper. Cook for 3 minutes or until soft. Let cool.
• Pick through crabmeat and remove any shell. Place crab in a medium bowl along with Panko crumbs, Ritz crackers, Old Bay seasoning, lemon zest, cayenne pepper, mayonnaise, and egg. Stir gently to mix.Season to taste with salt and pepper and refrigerate until needed.
• Peel shrimp, leaving the tail on. Cut through the backside of each shrimp, like you would to devein it, but cut more deeply, almost all the way through. Remove and discard the veins.
• On a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, place shrimp butterflied side down, pressing to flatten.
• Shape about 1 heaping tablespoon of crab mixture into a ball and place on top of a shrimp, pressing the tail into the top to secure. Repeat.
• Drizzle melted butter over shrimp.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes, or until cooked through.

SPICY SHRIMP-STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Carefully remove mushroom stems and chop stems into small pieces. Set mushroom caps aside.
• Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add mushroom stems and garlic. Cook and stir until soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Combine cream cheese, cayenne pepper, black pepper, and salt together in a bowl. Stir in cooked mushroom stem mixture, retaining butter in the skillet.
• Return skillet to medium heat and add shrimp. Cook and stir until shrimp are just opaque, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Pour bread crumbs into a shallow bowl. Fill each mushroom cap with cream cheese mixture and press mushroom, cream cheese-side down, into the bread crumbs to coat the top. Stick a cooked shrimp on top of each filled mushroom and place into a baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until hot and juicy, about 20 minutes.

BAKED STUFFED SHRIMP WITH CRABMEAT STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Line your baking dish with foil, and butter or spray with non stick cooking spray.
• Place the crabmeat in a large bowl and season with the Cajun Seasoning, Old Bay or salt and pepper, (your choice).
• Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
• In your fry pan, melt 4 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat.
• Add the onions, celery, and bell peppers and cook, stirring, until softened, about 4 minutes.
• Add the parsley and the garlic, and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
• Remove from heat and let cool.
• Add the cooled vegetables to the crabmeat and toss to combine.
• Add the mayonnaise, egg, lemon juice, Worcestershire and hot sauce and stir gently.
• Add 1 cup of cracker crumbs, salt and pepper to taste, and stir gently, being careful not to break up the crabmeat.
• Spoon the crabmeat stuffing evenly into each shrimp (about 2 Tbsp), and place, stuffed sides up, in your baking dish.
• Drizzle with the remaining melted butter.
• Bake until golden, about 20 minutes.

CRAB-STUFFED SHRIMP WITH A SPICY REMOULADE SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Spray a 9"x13" casserole with non-stick cooking spray. Peel (leaving tails on), de-vein, and butterfly shrimp by making a deep slit down the back from the large end to the tail, cutting to, but not through, the curve of the shrimp. Mix 1/2 cup bread crumbs, mayonnaise, egg, mustard, scallions, Worcestershire sauce, Old Bay seasoning and Cayenne pepper (if using). Gently mix in the crabmeat with wet hands, forming into 16 balls. Shape 1 portion of crab stuffing evenly around a butterflied shrimp, forming a ball (leave tail exposed). Place crab-stuffed shrimp in casserole dish with tail curving up and over the top of the crab mixture. Repeat with remaining crab cake portions and shrimp. Sprinkle stuffed shrimp evenly with breadcrumbs. Dust each shrimp with Paprika. (Can be made a day in advance; cover and refrigerate). Whisk together all Remoulade Sauce ingredients. Cover and chill 1 hour, or overnight. Bake shrimp at 400° for 20 minutes or until golden. Serve immediately with Remoulade Sauce.