Best Crock Pot Shrimp Boil Recipe

Crock Pot shrimp boil is a great way to steam your favorite Southern dish! Seafood, corn, potatoes, sausage and Old Bay cooked to perfection every time. You can make this with large fresh, defrosted, or frozen raw shrimp to make this.

Slow Cooker Shrimp Boil

We first made Instant Pot shrimp boil but wondered how to do it so that it would cook most of the day while we were gone. Using a Crockpot is a great alternative to a pressure cooker if you have the time. Some things do take a bit longer to get tender so you start with those and add the seafood at the end.

Remember that shrimp doesn’t take long to cook at all. You just want it to get perfectly pink but not overcooked and chewy, we solved that issue.

Let’s talk a little bit about slow cooking shall we?? First off I have a few different varieties and I love them all. Each one has an occasion to be used like….

1. This is my favorite 6 quart programmable one with a locking lid so it’s great for bringing to a potluck too.
2. I prefer not to use liners, but rather just spray olive oil inside before adding my food for easier cleanups.

Let me give you a peek of my pretty thang I bought recently. It goes with my kitchen so I can just leave it out on the countertop all the time. 😉

How to Make a Shrimp Boil

If you are having people over this is a really fun meal! It’s kinda’ a eat with your fingers kinda’ one pot meal that kids and adults just love. When it is ready you can serve it up on a large baking sheet with a ramekin of melted butter on the ends or on smaller dishes.

Add as much or as little seasonings as you like, I like bold flavors so I use a heavy hand. If you have little ones enjoying this too you might want to add half when cooking and serve them. Then toss the remaining half at the end for the adults.

Crockpot Shrimp Boil with Frozen Shrimp

It literally doesn’t matter whether you add meat rock hard or thawed. The biggest difference as to how long they take is their size. I like large and always buy raw, not precooked.

What is shrimp boil seasoning made of?

I just use a ready made container that is already combined because Old Bay recipes are our favorite but you could make it yourself I suppose with;

• 1/4 c salt
• 1 tbsp black peppercorns crushed and ground
• 4 cloves ground fresh
• 1 Tbsp onion and garlic powder, cayenne, Italian seasoning, allspice, coriander seeds,
• 2 Tbsp ground mustard and paprika

OR just do what I do and buy this to save yourself a bunch of time and space in your spice cupboard.

Cajun Shrimp Boil Recipe

Yes you can add more heat to the mix too if you wish. A few choices to do this would be dry Sriracha, chili seasoning or red pepper flakes. I am on the milder side of things and don’t like it spicy but to each their own.

1. Shrimp, fresh or defrosted that are large in size are best – could make a crab boil too
2. Kielbasa sausage sliced into dials
3. Corn on the cob broken up into thirds so it’s easier to pick up and cooks faster
4. Petite potatoes work best or you could cut russets into 6-8 pieces each
5. Seasonings
6. Roasted air fryer Garlic
7. Broth of your choice, vegetable or homemade chicken broth works well
8. Fresh lemon squeeze and melted butter when serving it up

Add a sliced or quartered onion into the mix if you like too. You’re really steaming everything until it is tender in this pot.

Shrimp Boil in the Slow Cooker

You could call this seafood boil too really. Add a few scallops when you add the seafood the last 45 minutes if you like.

• Wash your petite potatoes and place into slow cooker. Add garlic, bay leaves and onions. Sprinkle old bay seasoning on top.
• Pour broth or water into the pot, enough water to cover contents. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or until they are as tender as desired.
• Add shrimp, sausage and corn into pot. Could sprinkle on a bit of hot sauce for heat at this time.
• Stir ingredients together so seasonings coat everything. Cover and cook again for 45 minutes cooking time or until additional items are as tender as you want.
• Best way to serve is to use a slotted spoon to add andouille sausage, potatoes and corn from pot on to a lined baking sheet. Discard bay leaves.

Squeeze the lemon on top of everything, have lemon wedges available for others to add to it, and serve with or homemade cajun garlic butter sauce.

Shrimp Potatoes Corn in Crockpot

If you have leftovers this saves quite well. Give it a good 30 minutes to completely cool off first. Spoon it into a gallon freezer bag and into the fridge it goes. The next day add the sausage and other items on to a plate and microwave for 1 minute, stir and add more time if necessary. You could use your air fryer too to crisp it up.

Speaking of that machine, want to use that instead to make air fryer shrimp boil? You can!! We used frozen shrimp for this method so everything would cook a bit more evenly and it turned out great.

Ok one more recipe using this protein, because we love it. If you want to cook it together with noodles you can try Instant Pot bang bang shrimp pasta too.