Hey guys! With it being so hot out, I love any chance we get to use our Traeger smoker. Last year when I was playing around with trying different meal ideas, I came up with the brilliant idea to make a shrimp boil in the smoker. And let me tell you… it was amazing. So today I want to share my recipe for my smoked shrimp and sausage boil so that you can enjoy it as much as we did!
Specialty Kitchen Equipment and Ingredients
For this recipe, you’ll absolutely need a wood smoker of some kind. We absolutely love our Traeger pellet smoker. It was one of our best purchases last year in my opinion. I also highly recommend getting some of the disposable foil pans for this recipe, but you could also use a large casserole dish as well. Lastly, you’ll also want a nice, sharp knife.
Aside from needing a smoker for this recipe, there are a couple specialty ingredients you’ll want to have as well. For this recipe, you’ll want 1 lb of large deveined, unpeeled, tail on shrimp. You’ll also want to have some Old Bay. Old Bay is a great seasoning blend that you’ll find in a lot of Southern cooking. If you don’t have it, you could also use Tony Chachere’s Creole seasoning or Slap Ya Mama.
Pictures of Smoked Shrimp and Sausage Boil
In these pictures you can see just how much smoke everything took on, especially looking at the corn and lemon slices. The smoke adds such an incredible depth of flavor. So so good!
Recipe:
Smoked Shrimp and Sausage Boil
Equipment
- Wood pellet smoker
Ingredients
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 1 lb baby red potatoes, cut in half then quartered
- 2 ears fresh corn on the cob, cut into 3 pieces each
- 1 12 oz smoked sausage rope, sliced into 1/2 inch thick diagonals
- 1 lb large unpeeled, tail on shrimp
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 tbsp Old Bay seasoning You can also substitute Tony Chachere's creole seasoning or Slap Ya Mama seasoning.
- a few dashes of salt and pepper
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp Italian seasoning
- 1 stick butter, cut into tablespoon sized pats
- 1/2 lemon, sliced into rings
- 1/2 lemon cut into wedges as garnish
Instructions
- Preheat pellet smoker to 425° using Hickory or Pecan wood pellets.
- In a foil tray, combine onion, potatoes, corn, sausage, shrimp, olive oil, and seasonings. Mix until everything is well seasoned.
- Place pats of butter on top the of the shrimp mixture so that they're all evenly spaced. Do the same with the lemon slices.
- Smoke for 40-50 minutes, stirring halfway through or until shrimp is fully cooked and potatoes are fork tender.
This smoked shrimp and sausage boil is the perfect recipe for hot summer days where you don’t want to cook inside. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did!
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