diff --git a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/serdes.adoc b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/serdes.adoc
index d41fa77f61..a2616389fd 100644
--- a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/serdes.adoc
+++ b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/serdes.adoc
@@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ ConsumerFactory cf = new DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory(myConsumerConfigs,
     new RetryingDeserializer(myUnreliableValueDeserializer, retryTemplate));
 ----
 
+Starting with version `3.1.2`, a `RecoveryCallback` can be set on the `RetryingDeserializer` optionally.
+
 Refer to the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-retry[spring-retry] project for configuration of the `RetryTemplate` with a retry policy, back off policy, etc.
 
 
diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializer.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializer.java
index 5e2e7df137..fe01c2449e 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializer.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializer.java
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 import org.apache.kafka.common.header.Headers;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Deserializer;
 
+import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
+import org.springframework.retry.RecoveryCallback;
 import org.springframework.retry.RetryOperations;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 
@@ -30,12 +32,10 @@
  * deserialization in case of transient errors.
  *
  * @param <T> Type to be deserialized into.
- *
  * @author Gary Russell
  * @author Wang Zhiyang
- *
+ * @author Soby Chacko
  * @since 2.3
- *
  */
 public class RetryingDeserializer<T> implements Deserializer<T> {
 
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ public class RetryingDeserializer<T> implements Deserializer<T> {
 
 	private final RetryOperations retryOperations;
 
+	@Nullable
+	private RecoveryCallback<T> recoveryCallback;
+
 	public RetryingDeserializer(Deserializer<T> delegate, RetryOperations retryOperations) {
 		Assert.notNull(delegate, "the 'delegate' deserializer cannot be null");
 		Assert.notNull(retryOperations, "the 'retryOperations' deserializer cannot be null");
@@ -50,6 +53,15 @@ public RetryingDeserializer(Deserializer<T> delegate, RetryOperations retryOpera
 		this.retryOperations = retryOperations;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Set a recovery callback to execute when the retries are exhausted.
+	 * @param recoveryCallback {@link RecoveryCallback} to execute
+	 * @since 3.1.2
+	 */
+	public void setRecoveryCallback(@Nullable RecoveryCallback<T> recoveryCallback) {
+		this.recoveryCallback = recoveryCallback;
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public void configure(Map<String, ?> configs, boolean isKey) {
 		this.delegate.configure(configs, isKey);
@@ -57,17 +69,17 @@ public void configure(Map<String, ?> configs, boolean isKey) {
 
 	@Override
 	public T deserialize(String topic, byte[] data) {
-		return this.retryOperations.execute(context -> this.delegate.deserialize(topic, data));
+		return this.retryOperations.execute(context -> this.delegate.deserialize(topic, data), this.recoveryCallback);
 	}
 
 	@Override
 	public T deserialize(String topic, Headers headers, byte[] data) {
-		return this.retryOperations.execute(context -> this.delegate.deserialize(topic, headers, data));
+		return this.retryOperations.execute(context -> this.delegate.deserialize(topic, headers, data), this.recoveryCallback);
 	}
 
 	@Override
 	public T deserialize(String topic, Headers headers, ByteBuffer data) {
-		return this.retryOperations.execute(context -> this.delegate.deserialize(topic, headers, data));
+		return this.retryOperations.execute(context -> this.delegate.deserialize(topic, headers, data), this.recoveryCallback);
 	}
 
 	@Override
diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializerTests.java b/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializerTests.java
index 837471711f..fb1d3846d1 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializerTests.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/serializer/RetryingDeserializerTests.java
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 package org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.any;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
 
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
@@ -28,19 +31,20 @@
 import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import org.springframework.retry.RecoveryCallback;
+import org.springframework.retry.RetryContext;
 import org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate;
 
 /**
  * @author Gary Russell
  * @author Wang Zhiyang
- *
+ * @author Soby Chacko
  * @since 2.3
- *
  */
-public class RetryingDeserializerTests {
+class RetryingDeserializerTests {
 
 	@Test
-	void testRetry() {
+	void basicRetryingDeserializer() {
 		Deser delegate = new Deser();
 		RetryingDeserializer<String> rdes = new RetryingDeserializer<>(delegate, new RetryTemplate());
 		assertThat(rdes.deserialize("foo", "bar".getBytes())).isEqualTo("bar");
@@ -54,6 +58,17 @@ void testRetry() {
 		rdes.close();
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	void retryingDeserializerWithRecoveryCallback() throws Exception {
+		RetryingDeserializer<String> rdes = new RetryingDeserializer<>((s, b) -> {
+			throw new RuntimeException();
+		}, new RetryTemplate());
+		RecoveryCallback<String> recoveryCallback = mock();
+		rdes.setRecoveryCallback(recoveryCallback);
+		rdes.deserialize("my-topic", "my-data".getBytes());
+		verify(recoveryCallback).recover(any(RetryContext.class));
+	}
+
 	public static class Deser implements Deserializer<String> {
 
 		int n;