My late mother developed this baked filled shrimp recipe more than 30 years ago. These baked stuffed shrimp have been a Friday tradition for my father, grandparents, and me for many years. It’s customary to have baked stuffed shrimp for supper and then play cards. Due to their expensive cost, we have recently stopped eating scallops, and we don’t even miss them. Serve with rice pilaf or a baked potato, melted butter, and freshly squeezed lemon juice.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 2 (4 ounce) packages crushed buttery round crackers (such as Ritz®)
- ½ cup chopped parsley
- 5 saltine crackers, crushed
- ½ teaspoon celery salt
- 1 clove minced garlic
- 4 sea scallops, chopped
- ½ cup chopped imitation crabmeat
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- ¼ cup white cooking wine
- 20 jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Coat a baking dish with cooking spray.
- Mix together round crackers, parsley, saltines, celery salt, and garlic in a large bowl. Add scallops, crabmeat, melted butter, and cooking wine; mix stuffing well.
- Place a shrimp on a flat work surface. Slice horizontally through the middle, careful not to cut through to the other side. Open the 2 sides and spread them out like an open book. Repeat with remaining shrimp.
- Stuff each shrimp with a heaping tablespoon stuffing and place back-side up in the prepared baking dish. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons water to the bottom of the baking dish to keep shrimp moist during baking.
- Bake in the preheated oven until shrimp are opaque and stuffing begins to brown, 15 to 18 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 601 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 44 g |
| Cholesterol | 318 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 42 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 1410 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 27 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Good go to recipe. No nonsense and easy to throw together.
great eats
This recipe was great. Thank you. I added a couple of table spoons of cream cheese to the mix and then stuffed the shrimp.
No, I followed the recipe work for word. Pretty tasty. I would definitely use this recipe again.
Great recipe! Very easy and fast ! My husband loved it !
We have made many versions of baked stuffed shrimp. Personally we do not like stuffing that is overly buttery. We love everything about this recipe and thank you for our new go to when it comes to baked stuffed shrimp.. We highly recommend. Thank you!