Shrimp Burgers
These shrimp burgers put a delicious twist on burger night, and are perfect served with homemade air fryer french fries.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 pounds raw, unpeeled shrimp, finely chopped (1 pound once peeled)
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1/4 cup yellow onion, finely diced
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs, unseasoned
- 1/4 cup Panko bread crumbs, unseasoned
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp dried parsley flakes
- 1/2 tsp Old Bay seasoning
- 1/2 tsp Penzeys roasted garlic powder (or garlic powder of your choice)
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 1-2 Tbsp fresh grated Romano or Parmesan cheese
- Fresh tomato slice, avocado, lettuce
- 4 hamburger buns
Instructions
- First, you will want to peel and de-vein your raw shrimp. When that is done, you will finely chop the shrimp. It is important to get it quite fine, or you may have issues with them staying together when you cook them.
- Mix the finely chopped raw shrimp with the beaten egg, finely diced onion, bread crumbs, lemon juice, parsley flakes, Old Bay seasoning, and the garlic powder.
- Preheat a nonstick skillet or griddle to medium heat, and melt the butter in the pan. We cook seafood with butter in our house, but you could use oil here if you prefer.
- Divide the shrimp mixture into four equal amounts - for me, each burger was about 1/2 cup plus a tablespoon or so. Gently put the burgers into the preheated pan. It is very important not to flip them too soon, so be patient. These do have a tendency to fall apart if you aren't patient and gentle with them.
- Depending on your stove and temperature, the first side will cook for 5-7 minutes prior to flipping. Flip gently, and cook the other side an additional 5-7 minutes. You will see the shrimp turning pink as they cook. A couple of minutes before the end of cooking time, sprinkle the burgers with the grated fresh Parmesan or Romano cheese.
- When they are done, serve on a bun with tomato, avocado, and lettuce. I also had some Peruvian Green Sauce (recipe linked in the notes below) on mine, but a tartar sauce variety of your choice would also be good.
- We made homemade air fryer french fries to go on the side of our shrimp burgers. I'll also link that recipe in the notes below.
Notes
Recipes mentioned above:
Peruvian Green Sauce
Air Fryer French Fries A lower carb option for this meal would be to have the shrimp burgers on a garden or cobb salad instead of the hamburger bun and fries.
Peruvian Green Sauce
Air Fryer French Fries A lower carb option for this meal would be to have the shrimp burgers on a garden or cobb salad instead of the hamburger bun and fries.