An easy and healthy meal comes together quickly with fresh grilled shrimp and vibrant green broccoli. Spoon it all over your favorite steamed rice for a quick and healthy shrimp dinner recipe that will satisfy your weeknight appetite for something good in a cinch.

Easy Grilled Shrimp with Broccoli and Rice For Dinner

The main star of this quick and healthy weeknight dinner recipe? A handful of skewers laced with grilled juicy succulent shrimp. Quick bright green steamed broccoli and your favorite steamed rice make up the rest of the dish. Drizzles of soy sauce add brightness and pops of flavor.

This quick dinner is perfect for those of you who like the easy shrimp recipes that you can whip up quick after work and serve up in just a few minutes for a satisfying healthy meal.

A Quick Marinade For The Shrimp WIth Broccoli and Rice

To make the grilled shrimp skewers, we’ll toss up the fresh raw shrimp in a quick marinade with a handful of simple ingredients.

Dashes of Worcestershire sauce and pinches of flavorful dry spice like smoky paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, coarse sea salt and cracked pepper plus a little fruity olive oil round out the flavors. Nothing complicated… Just a quick build up of flavors that will line up nicely when we add a bit of cooked rice and broccoli to make it all into a healthy shrimp meal.

To Make This Quick Healthy Shrimp Dinner Recipe You’ll Need:

• 15 to 20 oz medium or large sized raw fresh shrimp or frozen and thawed raw shrimp (or about 35 to 40 pieces)
• Worcestershire sauce
• Good fruity olive oil
• Smoky paprika
• Onion powder
• Garlic powder
• Coarse sea salt
• Cracked pepper
• Fresh Broccoli Florets – steamed for 5 minutes and drained
• Your favorite steamed rice – cooked and prepared

To Make the Grilled Shrimp Skewers Marinade The Shrimp First

Coat the shrimp pieces in a quick and flavorful mix of flavors. When they hit the grill and release their sizzling sound, mouths will water when the scent of juicy grilled shrimp hits the air.

Add fresh raw shrimp pieces to a medium bowl. Toss in Worcestershire sauce, olive oil, onion powder, garlic powder, smoky paprika, coarse salt, and cracked pepper. Toss the shrimp in with these ingredients until evenly coated.

Skewer Your Seasoned Shrimp For Grilling

Grab 5 metal skewers (if using wood, dip them in a tall glass of water for 30 minutes to an hour prior to grilling to prevent burning). Slip on about 6 to 8 shrimp per skewer.

Grill Your Shrimp Skewers To Make An Easy Healthy Shrimp Dinner

Working on a pre-heated grill, spray the grill grate (or gill pan) with olive oil spray to prevent sticking. Grill shrimp skewers over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes and then flip once. Cook for one more minute on the second side. Remove from grill, cover lightly with a sheet of foil and set aside.

It is worth mentioning that if you are cooking shrimp on a smaller grill pan indoors, it may be easier to just place the loose shrimp pieces directly onto the hot skillet without skewers. Flip shrimp pieces around with tongs for easy handling during cooking.

I like to use skewers when grilling outdoors as it makes the cooking and flipping of the shrimp a cinch! It keeps everything in line and helps to cook things evenly. If cooking on an outdoor grill grate, I highly recommend the using skewers.

Add Broccoli and Rice To Assemble This Healthy Shrimp Dinner Recipe

Prepare the grilled shrimp and broccoli rice bowls. Spoon about half a cup of your favorite prepared steamed rice into each bowl. You can use your favorite rice! Jasmine rice, Japanese rice, brown rice, wild rice, black rice, or red rice. For this recipe, I’m using my favorite steamed Calrose white rice which is fluffy and satisfying with tasty toppings like the ones we will add here.

Make Grilled Shrimp and Broccoli Rice Bowls

Top the rice bowls with fresh steamed broccoli florets. Now, using your tongs, slide the juicy shrimp pieces off of the skewer and top the broccoli and rice with the freshly grilled plump shrimp. 

Drizzle fresh grilled shrimp with a little soy sauce or hot chili sauce

Finish by drizzling soy sauce on top and garnish with minced parsley or minced cilantro as desired. You might also drizzle the finished grilled shrimp with a dash of fresh lemon juice or lime juice for added brightness. For spicy flavor add a drizzle of spicy hot chili Sriracha sauce. Serve hot. Now you’ve made a delicious meal with simple ingredients in minutes!

A healthy shrimp dinner recipe for busy weeknights

This easy dinner is a great option for those you in search of healthy shrimp meals to satisfy appetites on all those busy weeknights. Keep this recipe handy when you need ideas for a quick and simple healthy dinner recipe or even a lighter lunch.

• Remember that fresh raw pieces of shrimp always cook up in just minutes!
• Look for that lovely pink color when tossing these around on the grill and try not to overcook so that they remain plump and juicy!
• Be sure to oil your grill grate well before cooking to prevent sticking.
• I like to use olive oil spray which works well with fish and seafood on the grill grate. Shrimp only need just a few minutes to cook up and even less time to gobble down…

For more delicious shrimp recipes, you might wanna keep in mind these light and simple mushroom, zucchini, and summer squash grilled shrimp skewers. They are tossed up with a very similar mixture of ingredients and cook up in just minutes on the grill for a low-calorie shrimp recipe everyone can enjoy.

These quick squash and shrimp grilled skewers are also perfect for those of you who need easy low carb and keto friendly summer dinner ideas! Don’t forget dessert either, keep the grill fired up for these lovely grilled peaches with bourbon drizzle. They make a perfectly sweet ending to a light summer dinner!

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