Recipe: Grilled Prawns Recipe »
Grilled prawns or shrimp are one of the best things about summer (or early Autumn technically!). Try these restaurant quality chef's recipe for grilled prawns with a nduja butter sauce on top! This is a quick and easy dinner or lunch seafood recipe and they take about 6 minutes on the grill to cook.
Grilled prawns are delicious but how about grilled prawns drizzled with nduja butter? Honestly just this one ingredient this takes regular grilled prawns to another level! And this tastes like it came from a restaurant because it did!
This grilled prawn recipe comes from Chef Steve Scott of The Del in Newcastle. These nduja butter prawns are one of the Plate Dates during Newcastle Food Month and for $30 you get three of these enormous prawns and a glass of wine. And Steve was kind enough to share this simple but tasty recipe with me.
It's the last week before Daylight savings comes to an end and that means there's just enough time to make these. And if you're in the Northern Hemisphere that means that there's plenty of time for you to try these delicious grilled prawns/shrimp drizzled with an nduja compound butter.
Nduja is a spicy, spreadable paste made from cured pork and peppers, traditionally from Italy’s Calabria region. Nduja is made with lean and fat pork trimmings and sun-dried Calabrian chilli peppers. It's like an Italian cousin of chorizo but it is softer and spicier. Nduja is actually probably closer to Spanish sobrasada (this is more paprika based).
Tips For Grilling Prawns
1 - This grilled prawn recipe can be done on the barbecue or grill (indoor grill is fine).
2 - The prawns that they use at The Del are U6 prawns that are extra, extra large or jumbo prawns. It can be hard to find these fresh and I could only find them frozen (unless I wanted to pre-order a big box!). U6 means that there are 6 or less prawns per pound or less than 13 prawns per kilo although the ones I bought were around 100g/3.5ozs each so they were really big. You can use any green prawn but larger ones are better for presentation.
3 - We keep the head and the tail on for these prawns for presentation. Also some people love eating prawn heads!
4 - To devein or not to devein? It's up to you! Some don't like the taste of this while it doesn't bother other people. However with extra, extra large prawns it's quick and easy to remove the back vein. Just cut down the back of the prawn with a sharp, paring knife and remove that vein!
5 - You can buy nduja from Italian delis or Italian grocers. It should be in the refrigerated section near the salamis.
6 - You can use metal or bamboo skewers for these nduja butter prawns. As U6 prawns are very large you want to use thicker skewers.
- Other Grilled Seafood Recipes You Might Like:
- Miso Butter Grilled Scallops
- Korean Gochujang Glazed Grilled Salmon
- Barbecued Spiced Butter Prawns
- Venetian Style Scallops
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