Gluten-Free Crab-Stuffed Shrimp

If you want to treat yourself and your loved ones to an amazing seafood dinner, you’ve got to make these AIP, Paleo, and The Myers Way® approved Gluten-Free Crab-Stuffed Shrimp. This recipe is easy, restaurant-worthy, and uses just a handful of fresh ingredients for a flavorful, gluten-free, crab stuffing. It’s baked until the large shrimp is perfectly juicy and tender, and ready to please everyone at the table.

A Protein-rich Seafood Dinner

This recipe is loaded with protein, thanks to the shrimp and crab meat. Both of these ingredients not only offer ample amounts of protein, they also provide healthy, omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3s are essential for optimal heart and brain health.

Crab meat is also rich in selenium, which supports the immune system and thyroid hormone metabolism. On top of that selenium is a powerful antioxidant that helps prevent cell damage.

For this recipe, you want to use the largest shrimp you can find: about 12-16 shrimp per pound. This will make it easier to stuff the shrimp. It also makes a more impressive presentation to bring to the table (figuratively and literally).

To prepare the shrimp to be stuffed, you’ll need to “butterfly” the shrimp halfway. Carefully use a paring knife to slice underneath the shrimp halfway, so that it can be opened to create a flat surface to hold the crab stuffing.

Healthy Ingredients for Gluten-Free Crab-Stuffed Shrimp

Most crab cake and crab stuffing recipes use egg and flour fillers to bind the mixtures together. You won’t find those in this recipe. It doesn’t need any fillers because each stuffed shrimp only requires a heaping tablespoon of gluten-free crab stuffing. You only need to press the crab stuffing together in your hand to make a ball that sticks together. This ensures that you’re only using the best and the healthiest ingredients.

The crab stuffing is flavored with fresh garlic, scallion, parsley, and freshly squeezed lemon juice. Finely diced celery gives the stuffing some crunch and extra nutrients as well as prebiotic fiber. The stuffing is seasoned with salt, freshly ground black pepper, and a touch of olive oil, which adds more healthy fats to this dish and helps the stuffing stick together.

Time-saving Tip:

This recipe requires about half an hour to put together. It’s worth every minute! The combination of shrimp and crab meat is absolutely delicious. To save time, you could prepare the gluten-free crab stuffing up to a day in advance and store it in the refrigerator overnight in a sealed container.

Although I recommend preparing the shrimp day-of, it can also be prepped in advance: simply butterfly the bottom of the shrimp the day before and store it overnight in a separate sealed container in the refrigerator.

When you are ready for dinner, you will preheat the oven while you finish preparing this dish: season the shrimp with salt and pepper, arrange them on an oiled baking sheet, and carefully place about a tablespoon of crab stuffing on each shrimp.

Dinner will be ready in 15 minutes!