Name: Shrimp Boil on the Grill
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs medium or large Gulf shrimp (peeled and deveined); 4 ears of Florida sweet corn - cut each ear into 3 or 4 sections; One 14 oz. package of smoked sausage sliced into rounds; 10-12 petite red potatoes (quartered); Drizzle of olive oil; 8 tablespoons of butter; Stir together: 1 1/2 tablespoons Old Bay Seasoning Blend (1 tablespoon Lawry's Seasoned Salt and 1/2 tablespoon garlic powder)

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Move your shrimp boil from the stovetop to the grill with our Shrimp Boil on the Grill! Seasoned potatoes, tender corn, smoky sausage, and fresh shrimp cook to perfection in foil bundles and clean up couldn't be easier!

hands holding platter of shrimp boil in foil packet

Here in Georgia we love a good shrimp boil but sometimes it's fun to switch things up and take it outside to the grill! By moving our shrimp boil to foil packets we get all the same great flavor without the boiling.

Ingredients

These foil bundles are stuffed with all the seasoned goodness that you find in a typical shrimp boil:

red potatoes
sweet corn
sausage
shrimp
olive oil
butter
homemade Shrimp Boil Seasoning Mix with Lawry's, Old Bay, and garlic powder

Homemade Shrimp Boil Seasoning

So, let's stir together the Shrimp Boil Seasoning Mix, first. This savory spice blend isn't just for shrimp boils - it is delicious on fish, added to a crawfish boil or to the water when steaming crab legs. Try it on roasted veggies or the outside of a baked potato, too ... YUM!

seasonings in glass bowl for shrimp boil

Mix together:

1 ½ tablespoons Old Bay Seasoning blend
1 tablespoon Lawry's Season Salt
½ tablespoon Garlic powder

This made enough for our 4 shrimp boil packets, but you can double or triple the recipe as needed. You can also adjust the amounts to taste and add some cayenne if you like a little heat.

Step by step

Now that the all-important seasoning blend is ready, it is time to assemble the shrimp boil foil packets to put on the grill.

Once you have piled in the shrimp, corn, sausage, and potatoes in the center of the foil, add a light drizzle of olive oil to help the seasoning mix stick to everything. A few pats of butter will keep everything nice and tender, too.

shrimp, potatoes, corn, and sausage with pats of butter on foil

To seal the packets, draw the horizontal edges of the foil together and fold over at the top. Use this opportunity to spread the shrimp, corn, potatoes and sausage out evenly within the foil packet. Then, fold the ends of the foil packet over the top of the packet.

diagram of folding foil packets to grill shrimp boil

Now, place packets on the grill over medium heat for 25-30 minutes. At the 20 minute mark, check for doneness - the potatoes should be fork tender, the corn softened and the shrimp should be lightly pink and opaque. If necessary, reseal the packet and allow to finish cooking.

four foil packets of shrimp boil on gas grill

And now for the best part!! Slide a shrimp boil bundle onto your plate and carefully open up the foil packet ...

The potatoes have softened, the corn is tender, the shrimp are seasoned perfectly and the sausage has rendered down, creating the most amazing seasoned sauce at the bottom of each packet. Add a generous squeeze of lemon, a little parsley for freshness and DIG IN!!

Shrimp Boil on the Grill - all the delicious flavor of a shrimp boil with easy clean up!!

The only thing that could have possibly made this dish better was a piece of toasted bread to sop up alllll of that delicious seasoned sauce at the bottom of the packet. Darn, I guess that means we'll just have to make this Shrimp Boil on the Grill again next weekend 😉

You might also like these other summer recipes:

Our Shrimp Nachos are a great way to get your meal started!
Key Lime Butter Grilled Grouper is flaky and tender!
You'll love our tips for Easy Grilled Sweet Corn

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