It is also good with mild, fragrant ingredients. If you want to make seafood appetizers, why not make some spicy shrimp recipes to wow your dinner guests? Remember that the word spicy can mean aromatic and spiced rather than fiery hot. You can control the heat by adding more hot spices or reducing the amount the recipe calls for.
How To Make Cantonese Dumplings
This recipe serves ten people and the dumplings are wonderful appetizers for a dinner party or buffet. If you like Chinese food you will love these. The recipe features soy sauce, garlic, pepper, and oyster sauce, making the shrimp dumplings spicy in an aromatic way rather than a fiery one.
What You Need:
- 1 oz chopped watercress
- 2 chopped green onions
- 4 oz ground pork
- 1/2 can drained, chopped water chestnuts
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 minced clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- Pinch each of salt and pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 lb fresh shrimp, deveined and peeled
- 40 wonton wrappers
How To Make Them:
Mix the water chestnuts, sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic, pork, watercress, oyster sauce, green onion, salt and pepper together and divide this mixture between the wonton wrappers. Each wrapper will hold half a teaspoon of this filing.
Put one shrimp on each filling. Wet the edge of the wonton wrappers and fold them over, pinching the edges with your fingers to ensure they are tightly closed without any air trapped inside.
Boil the dumplings in water for ten minutes, bake them at 400 degrees F for fifteen minutes (turning them halfway through) or pan fry them for fifteen minutes (turning them halfway through). You can serve these dumplings in hot chicken broth or just as they are with or without a dipping sauce.
How To Make Barbecue Shrimp
This recipe, which makes enough to serve six people, can be made on the grill or under the broiler, depending on the weather. The cayenne pepper and paprika add a spiciness to the seafood and the garlic and lemon add more flavor. If you love shrimp appetizers, you will certainly enjoy this amazing dish.
What You Need:
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 big clove garlic
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 2 1/4 lbs fresh big shrimp, deveined and peeled
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 lemon, in 8 wedges
How To Make It:
Preheat the grill to moderately hot. Crush the salt and garlic together, and then stir in the paprika and cayenne pepper. Stir in the lemon juice and olive oil. Add the seafood to this paste, tossing them well, until they are coated. Lightly oil the grate and cook the prawns for a couple of minutes on each side or until they are opaque. Serve them hot, with the lemon wedges on the side.