Air Fryer Garlic Shrimp – 15 minutes
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Once you taste air fried shrimp, you’ll be hooked! It’s so fresh and full of flavor, this air fryer shrimp recipe is fantastic! Seriously, this 15 minute air fried shrimp is too easy to pass up. Cooking seafood with this method is an easy to want to make this several times a week.
Easy Air Fried Shrimp
The air fried shrimp comes out tender with a wonderful bite. It’s crisp, juicy and always perfect. The garlic and lemon flavors shine. Since shrimp comes in different sizes, you just have to adjust cooking time a bit. Serve the shrimp on a salad, tacos, quinoa or with anything you want. It’s so good for everyday and cooks in about 15 minutes. This low carb air fryer shrimp is perfect for busy weeknights when you want to put dinner together quick.
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Healthy Air Fryer Shrimp Recipe
If you’re looking for a keto air fried shrimp, this is it! Serve the shrimp on a salad and you have an instant healthy protein with your veggies! This recipe for air fryer shrimp is really low carb and healthy, especially for the pescatarian diet. For the air fryer, you hardly have to use any oil. A little bit of olive oil spray is all you need for crispy shrimp. Don’t cook it too long or it can get dry. But if you like your shrimp a little more juicy, then drizzle with a little more oil before you cook. This will help the shrimp be more moist and less dry.
If you want to cook frozen shrimp in the air fryer, here’s our recipe with time and temp. Here’s a great shrimp scampi recipe and fresh shrimp spring rolls!
Air Fryer Garlic Shrimp with Lemon
Ingredients
- 1 pound (454 g) raw shrimp , peeled de-veined,
- Vegetable oil or spray , to coat shrimp
- 1/4 teaspoon (1.25 ml) garlic powder
- Salt , to taste
- Black pepper , to taste
- lemon wedges
- minced parsley and/or chili flakes (optional)
Equipment
Instructions
- In a bowl add the shrimp, garlic powder, salt and pepper and toss to coat all of the shrimp evenly. Add shrimp to air fryer basket in a single layer.
- Air fry at 400°F for about 8-14 minutes (depending on the size of your shrimp), gently shaking and flipping halfway.
- Add the cooked shrimp to bowl, squeeze lemon juice on top. Sprinkle parsley and/or chili flakes and serve hot. So good!
If your air fryer is preheated or if you are cooking multiple batches, you may need to reduce timing by a few minutes (unless preheating is called for in the recipe).
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10 Comments on “Air Fryer Garlic Shrimp – 15 minutes”
This was perfect for my little get together. Shrimp cooked great.
This was really great for my shrimp cocktail appetizers. Air fryer is the best way to cook them.
cooking shrimp is so easy what a lovely meal ..
We really liked this Garlic Shrimp recipe. We will be doing this again. It was quick, with easy clean up. We supplemented with brown rice and fresh tomatoes. Yummy dinner!
Love these recipes
Thanks so much Elaine and welcome!
This turned out amazing for my shrimp tacos! Thanks for the easy-to-understand instructions!
Yummmm! I love cooking shrimp on my air fryer! It came out so good!
Shrimp came out perfect on the air fryer. Gonna suggest the whole family to cook it like this since they wanna start cooking with less oil.
Cooking shrimp just got a lot easier! Thanks for suggesting to cook it in the air fryer!