The Best Jerk Shrimp Taco Ever
If you love Jerk Flavor then these Easy Jerk Shrimp Tacos are on your dinner table in less than 30 minutes! With simple seasoning and fresh ingredients, it’s a meal everyone will love! These shrimp tacos are fast, easy, and give us something to look forward to at the end of the day.
SHRIMP TACO INGREDIENTS:
To make this shrimp tacos recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- Shrimp: Just a pound of peeled and deveined large shrimp. Frozen is ok
- Jerk seasoning: Store-bought is just fine. You can get mild or Spicy.
- Tortillas: Homemade or store-bought tortillas that you prefer. We used store-bought
- Mayo Crema: Made with Mayo, Ketchup, and Hot Sauce of your choice.
- Favorite Toppings: Feel free to also sprinkle the tacos with any toppings you love, such as chopped fresh pico de gallo, sliced jalapeño peppers, and Mexican cheese.
What is Jerk seasoning?
Caribbean or Jamaican Jerk seasoning gets its kick from a blend of ingredients such as chiles, cloves, scallions, brown sugar, ginger, salt, thyme, cinnamon, garlic, and nutmeg. Perfect for these Jerk shrimp tacos.
How to Make Shrimp Tacos
- Marinate the shrimp with jerk seasoning and dry seasoning. Don’t leave the shrimp in the marinade for more than 15-20 minutes—it’ll start to get tough.
- Make the Pico De Gallo, onion, tomato, and fresh cilantro.
- Warm the tortillas in a skillet or the oven.
- Use the same skillet to sauté the shrimp. It should be done in just a few minutes.
- Assemble your tacos and dive in!
How to assemble This Taco🌮
- To your taco shell add the mayo cream
- Now it’s time to add your shrimp
- Top it off with pico de gallo and cheese
What kind of shell is used for tacos?
There are many kinds of shells and what you choose for your taco is all about preference. There are hard taco shells, soft taco shells, Indian tacos, puffy tacos, yellow taco shells, and the list goes on. But we love the flat yellow corn shells. They are made with 100% whole grain corn for superior flavor and quality. Also, yellow taco shells are gluten-free.
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“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21 NKJV
Wisdom
Our words are powerful, what we say does matter. The world says stick and stone may break my bones but words may never hurt me. That is a lie, words do hurt. You can tear someone down with the things you say, you can make someone cry, get mad, or feel unappreciated. We all have hurt people with our words whether we meant to or not, and we all have made someone feel horrible with what we have said.
We must be careful of the words we speak for we will be judged by every idle word we have spoken in our lifetime. God is listening to everything we say. Nothing is hidden from his sight or his ears. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Our words also can either bless someone or curse. I pray we all choose to speak blessings into everyone regardless of how they are. Tell people you love them. Tell people they are beautiful or handsome.
A small word of love can make someone’s day a whole lot better. For we must do things as unto the Lord and not unto men. His commandment is to love our neighbor the way we love ourselves. Speak love and not hate. If you bless someone and they curse you, do not curse them back, continue to speak life, and love for God is listening.
The Bible says the tongue is the hardest thing to tame. For we bless our God with it and curse men with it. So make your words be a fountain of life and love, for a water fountain cannot give sweet and bitter water at the same time. As believers, we can’t continue to have both blessing and cursing in our speech. Get rid of curse words and replace them with words of blessings. Pray and bless everyone around you in Jesus’s name.
Jerk Shrimp Taco
Ingredients
- 1 lb of Shrimp
- 1 tbsp of Jerk Seasoning
- 1 tsp of Complete Seasoning
- 1 tsp of Smoked Paprika Garlic, Chili, Chive Spice Blend
- 1 tbsp of Black Pepper
- 1/4 cup of onions
- 1/8 cup of scallions
Pico De Gallo
- 3 Tomatoes
- 1/4 cup of onion
- 1/4 cup of cilantro
Sour Cream Crema
- 1/2 cup of sour cream
- 1/4 cup of ketchup
- 3 tbsp of your favorite hot sauce
Instructions
- Wash shrimp in vinegar, water, and lime or lemon then season with dry seasoning (Jerk Seasoning, Complete Seasoning, Smoked Paprika, Garlic, Chili, Chive Spice Blend, and Black Pepper)
- Chop up onions and scallions
- To a pot add oil when the oil is hot saute the onions when translucent add shrimp to the pot.
- Cook shrimp for 5 mins then add scallions and turn off the stove. (Remove pot from the hot stove so your shrimp doesn’t overcook.
- Pico De Gallo
- Chop up onions tomatoes and cilantro then add a tsp of black pepper and that’s it
- Sour Cream Crema
- To a bowl add sour cream, ketchup, and your favorite hot sauce and that’s it!
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