Shrimp Po Boy

4.94 from 48 votes

A Shrimp Po Boy is the ultimate sandwich for seafood lovers! Tender shrimp drizzled with creamy, spicy sauce, topped with crunchy cabbage on a soft roll.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course

Cuisine: Cajun/Creole

Keyword: Shrimp Po Boy

Servings:

Calories: 804kcal

Author: Erica Walker

Ingredients

For the Creamy Cajun Sauce:

1 cup mayonnaise Best Foods or Hellmann's
⅔ cup ketchup
3 Tablespoons horseradish sauce
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
½ to 1 Tablespoon Creole seasoning depending on how spicy you like it
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon paprika

For the shrimp:

4 Tablespoons butter
2 cloves garlic minced
1 pound shrimp medium to large, uncooked, peeled and deveined
Creole seasoning to taste
4 French-style hoagie rolls or French bread (Bratwurst buns or work great too)
shredded cabbage or lettuce

Instructions

Combine sauce ingredients in a mixing bowl until smooth. Set aside.
Heat a large skillet to medium heat, add butter and garlic. When the butter is hot and melted, add shrimp. Sprinkle Creole seasoning over the shrimp. It can be a little spicy so only sprinkle it to your personal taste. When the shrimp is pink all the way through, remove it from heat. Do not overcook.
Split the rolls open and divide the shrimp evenly between each roll. Top with the creamy Cajun sauce and shredded cabbage, to taste.

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Notes

If you like breaded and deep-fried shrimp, you can bread it in cornmeal and a flour mixture and cook in batches on medium-high heat, frying in hot vegetable oil until the shrimp is golden brown and dry on paper towels.
You could also be seasoning your shrimp with a teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, a little dash of hot sauce, cayenne pepper, kosher salt, Cajun seasoning, onion powder, or spicy brown mustard.
Replace shrimp with fried catfish (or any other kind of white fish), oysters, soft-shell crab, lobster, or other types of seafood if desired.

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