Buffalo Shrimp

About

This super-easy Keto recipe makes the ultimate buffalo shrimp! The recipe is classic and simple. Just season your shrimp to your liking, cook it on your stovetop, and toss the shrimp in a quick-made scratch buttery buffalo sauce. You choose your favorite style of red hot sauce, but Frank’s Red Hot is the recommended style due to its consistency. The nutrition for the recipe is divided by single pieces of shrimp, so you can easily add as many as you like to your food log. Suggested uses for the buffalo shrimp are as a snack or appetizer on toothpicks or with other Keto ingredients, like olive or blue cheese cubes. You can also add buffalo shrimp to other dishes for some spicy protein in your meal. Include your Keto buffalo shrimp on a pizza, salad, in a Keto sushi wrap, or in one of Carb Manager’s tortilla recipes.

Serving Your Buffalo Shrimp

If you are using this Keto recipe as a snack or appetizer, you can serve the buffalo shrimp individually on toothpicks or you can include it with other finger foods. Celery sticks are a classic buffalo sauce accompaniment and low in carbs. Other Keto ingredients that pair well with buffalo sauce and shrimp are small green olives, blue cheese crumbles, or pickle chips. Carb Manager has recipes for blue cheese sauce and ranch, so you can make your own Keto dipping sauces at home to cool off your spicy snack too.

Grilling Sauce Onto Your Food

The final step of the recipe guides you through cooking the shrimp in buffalo sauce until the sauce actually infuses the flesh. This is a popular way chefs who know how to make a good chicken wing can boost their buffalo dishes with extra flavor and make the sauce really stick to the ingredients. If you were to cook the shrimp in only its seasonings and then toss it in buffalo sauce, you wouldn’t get the same amount of flavor and the sauce is more likely to pull away from the shrimp.

Ingredients

2 tablespoon butter, unsalted
4 tablespoon red hot original cayenne pepper sauce
10 large raw shrimp
¼ teaspoon seasoned salt
2 teaspoon olive or extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

Make the buffalo sauce first by melting the butter in a small pot over low heat. Choose a red hot sauce that is the brand Frank’s Red Hot or similar. Tabasco sauce isn’t the best choice for this recipe, but you may include some if you enjoy the flavor. Pour your preferred hot sauce into the pot of melted butter, and stir over the heat until the sauce comes together and heats through. Once the sauce has fully heated through, you can set it aside for later.
Peel and devein jumbo shrimp, and add them to a small mixing bowl. Toss the raw shrimp with seasoned salt and olive oil until the shrimp is coated. From here you can add any additional spices you enjoy with your buffalo sauce. Some suggestions are black pepper, paprika, garlic powder, or dried ground herbs. You may wish to marinate the shrimp for up to 30 minutes, or you can continue on to the final step.
Heat a small pan over medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, place the marinated shrimp in the pan. Cook the shrimp on one side until they just turn golden. Flip the shrimp over and cook to the same doneness on the other side in the pan. Then, reduce the heat to medium, and pour 2-3 tablespoons of buffalo sauce into the pan. Toss and fry the shrimp in the buffalo sauce until you see the sauce cooked into the flesh. Take the pan off the stove, toss the shrimp with the remaining buffalo sauce, and serve immediately.