Shrimp on the Barbie (#2)

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

Australia doesn’t have a single national grilled specialty in the way that jerk epitomizes Jamaican barbecue or yakitori says Japan. But one Ozzie (as Australians refer to themselves) dish familiar to grillers the world over is the iconic shrimp on the barbie (“barbie” is an affectionate name for a barbecue grill). Curiously, there’s no one traditional way to prepare this: If your forbears emigrated from Asia, you use the sesame, soy, and star-anise flavored marinade found in my first shrim