Lemon Garlic Shrimp Air Fryer

You can cook the shrimp directly from frozen, and they turn out so deliciously fresh and flavorful in the Air Fryer. It's excellent to serve as an appetizer or as part of a main dish because it's so quick and simple to cook.

Entire recipe The recipe card is located at the bottom of the post and contains the ingredients and instructions.

The blog post contains helpful ideas and tricks.

These juicy shrimp are sure to be a hit with you guys! They are quite yummy and only require a few simple ingredients to prepare. If I tried, I couldn't possibly make this dish simpler!

You can cook them right from frozen in the air fryer, and they always turn out properly cooked.

Components You'll Need

Thawed shrimp 🦐 (Deveined)

Butter 🧈

Italian herbs, old bay, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper are used as the seasonings

Garlic 🧄

Lemon 🍋

How to Make Lemon Garlic Shrimp in an Air Fryer

Put the ingredients in a baking dish that will fit your air fryer and is safe for the oven.

Shrimp should be air-fried at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, stirring once, or until transparent.

How are these shrimp prepared?

With a dipping sauce, you can serve these lemon-garlic shrimp as an appetizer all by themselves. For a well-balanced dinner, serve them with sweet potatoes and beet greens in addition to topping some pasta or rice with them. They work well in tacos as well!

What kind of shrimp should you use?

The fact that you can use frozen shrimp straight from the packet is one of the key reasons why I adore this recipe. Simply make sure they have been deveined. You can use shelled or unshelled, however because shelled tend to be more juicy, I like to use shelled.

For this dish, you may also use fresh shrimp. Simply shorten the cooking time a little.

Why would you air fry shrimp?

Shrimp cooks quickly and easily in an air fryer. It's such a hands-off process, and every time they turn out so well. It completely eliminates the element of guesswork, and the tastes are just wonderful.

Recipe Advice and Notes

You can use deveined or peeled frozen shrimp with the shell on. Generally speaking, frozen shell-on shrimp is a little juicer.

Reduce the amount of time needed to fully cook the shrimp if using defrosted shrimp.

To make it simple to take the container from the air fryer, wrap it in a foil sling.

Lemon Garlic Shrimp Air Fryer

You can cook the shrimp straight from the freezer, and they turn out so deliciously fresh and delectable in the air fryer. Perfect to serve as an appetizer or as part of a main meal because it's so quick and simple to prepare.

five minutes to prepare

fifteen minutes to cook

Twenty minutes in total

portions4 portions

Calories199kcal

Ingredients

16 ounces of frozen, deveined jumbo shrimp with 3 teaspoons of unsalted butter

3 Tablespoons of unsalted butter

Italian seasoning, two teaspoons

3 minced garlic cloves

Old Bay seasoning, 1/4 teaspoon

Lemon juice, fresh, 2 tablespoons, plus cut lemon pieces

1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes

pepper and salt as desired

Instructions

Fill a container with the ingredients. Shrimp should be cooked at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, stirring once, or until transparent.

Notes

• You can use deveined or peeled frozen shrimp with the shell on. Generally speaking, frozen shell-on shrimp is a little juicer.
• Reduce the amount of time needed to fully cook the shrimp if using defrosted shrimp.
• To make it simple to take the container from the air fryer, wrap it in a foil sling.
• In this dish, giant shrimp work best, but any size will do. Keep an eye on smaller shrimp since they cook more quickly.

Nutrition

• Nutritional information per serving: Calories: 199kcal; 
• Carbohydrates: 2g;
• Protein: 24g;
• Fat: 10g;
• Saturated Fat: 6g;
• Cholesterol: 309mg; 
• Sodium: 967mg; 
• Potassium: 121mg; 
• Fiber: 1g; 
• Sugar: 1g; 
• Vitamin A: 319IU; 
• Vitamin C: 9mg;
• Calcium: 189mg; 
• Iron: 3mg;