Mini shrimp deviled eggs are the best appetizer with hard boiled eggs for Easter or a party with friends. So pretty served with our crack chicken deviled eggs for brunch. Make cajun for a spicy bite or keep mild for a family friendly finger food.
If you want to change things up for the holidays you should try making cajun shrimp deviled eggs this year. A fun seafood twist to the traditional method, but still has the great flavors you love. Just defrost your precooked shrimp and have your hard boiled eggs ready to make these for a crowd.
Cajun Shrimp Deviled Eggs
You can even add some heat into the mix if you want it to be kinda’ spicy. Leave alone for a mild but super flavorful bite. I start this whole process by making “regular” deviled eggs with cooked yolks. The easiest method is to use our Instant Pot hard boiled eggs instructions and cool them in a bowl of ice water.
The shells will slide right off that way and then you’re set to continue. Pop the yolks right out when they’re cooled and with a fork break them up so it’s kinda’ like sand consistency.
You could use a food processor for the mixing stage but honestly that is just one more thing you’d have to clean. If you don’t have an Instant Pot you could either do the “old fashioned” method of boiling, make air fryer hard boiled eggs,
Ingredient Notes
This is how to make hard boiled eggs in the oven. That part I’m sure you already understand how to do this initial step, you’re just here for the amount of this and that for the filling but just in case we are starting from the beginning here. I suggest white eggs because they are easier to peel.
Best Foods Mayonnaise is my favorite brand vs. Miracle Whip as that has more of a vinegar flavor but either way. And yellow Mustard will add that tang into the mix. Taste, use more or less depending on your flavor preferences.
Defrosted mini shrimp (usually found frozen in a bag) are the perfect sizes for this. You do not need info on how to cook frozen shrimp for this as you just want them thawed, precooked, and cold is best if you ask me but your choice. You could use dry Sriracha if you want to make them spicy but honestly you don’t need any other seasonings.
You can set them on a plate or if you don’t have an egg plate I would highly suggest it. There are divots on it so the whites don’t slide all around.
Variations
You can leave them plain white like this or make colored deviled eggs if it is holiday time. Choose to add diced pieces into the mix AND one whole one on the top, or just one out of the two. I say the more the merrier so I do both for sure.
Another substitution is the meat. If you wanted a few choices, using chopped up imitation crab is great to make our crab deviled eggs version with this protein inside the filling and a bit plopped on to the top.
Shrimp Deviled Eggs Recipe
Equipment
- 1 pot to boil eggs to hard
- 1 freezer bag or pastry bag
Ingredients
- 6 large eggs, hard boiled
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 pinch salt and pepper, to taste
- 1/2 cup shrimp, mini, precooked, thawed
- 1/4 tsp dill, dried or chopped from fresh
Instructions
- Once hard boiled eggs are cooled, slice in half lengthwise and pop out yolks into a bowl. Set empty whites with holes facing up on to a plate.
- Use the back of a fork to smash yolks into crumbs. Add mayo and mustard, adjust if you want more "wetness" with a bit more mayo if desired. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dill, taste and adjust until just right.
- Pour 1/4 c. of mini shrimp on to paper towels and pat to remove moisture on the outside of them. Chop into smaller bits and fold into egg mixture.
- Fill eggs; easy way is to spoon mixture into a pint freezer bag and then snip corner off. Squeeze into empty egg whites until filling is gone.
- Place one mini shrimp on top of each egg and serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
How do You Fill Deviled Eggs Neatly?
This is how you would do that; Cook your eggs, cool them, and peel as you normally would. Make your filling (without the seafood inside) and spoon it into a pint size freezer bag. Suck all the air out and zip it tight. Store empty egg whites in another freezer bag. Take out the frozen shrimp. Put all 3 bags in the fridge for the next day.
Then to prep put whites on your egg plate. Cut the corner off of the filling bag. Squeeze into holes to fill and set a defrosted shrimp on the top of each one. I say don’t mix it inside if you do this because the texture kinda’ changes if you don’t make them right away.
This is how you are going to make them in a quick step by step, more detailed info. at the bottom in the printable recipe card:
Garnish this favorite finger food with a whole piece of cold seafood, how to cook frozen shrimp with seasonings or diced green onions if you like. Takes less than 30 minutes to get it all done. I prefer to keep them in the fridge, done, for about an hour to get really chilly though.
Different Deviled Egg Recipes
If you’re looking for another winner you can integrate other favorite flavors into the middle mixture. Try diced crab, bacon, etc… A third winner to pair with these would be bacon wrapped smokies.
Nutrition facts like saturated fat and calories listed above. Those will vary slightly depending on how large your eggs are and what type slightly. If you love deviled eggs these are killer tweaks on the original you know and love.
