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Shrimp and Grits - Sautéing the Shrimp

This video will show how to saute the shrimp for shrimp and grits.

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Shrimp and Grits - Sautéing the Shrimp

Ingredients

Garlic butter:
1/2 pound of butter
Garlic
Lemon juice
Salt
Pepper


Shrimp and grits:
1 quart of water
1/2 cup of cream
1/2 cup of butter
1 tablespoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black pepper
Grits
1/2 cup of white cheddar cheese
16-20 gulf shrimp
3 cups of baby spinach

Instructions

1. To make garlic butter, pre-soften butter at room temperature. Finely mince garlic and add lemon juice, salt and pepper and mix it together with the butter.


2. Add the water and cream to a pan and let it come to a boil. Add butter, salt and pepper and let it boil for 4 minutes.


3. Add the grits all at once and stir with a whisk. Cook for 2 minutes and then add white cheddar cheese. Stir everything together.


4. To make grit cakes, refrigerate the grits and then place them in pan with olive oil. Cut the grits into squares. Fry the grit cakes and then place them in the oven for 5 minutes.


5. Butterfly the shrimp and place them on a skewer. Season with salt and pepper. Saute the shrimp in a pan with olive oil. Place them in the oven with a few scoops of garlic butter and cook them.


6. Saute the baby spinach in olive oil for 15 seconds. Lay the spinach over the grits and place the shrimp on top. Serve with garlic butter.

 

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Transcripts

Dan Lichens: Hi, this is Dan at FireFlies Restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia. Today we are making shrimp and grits. In this clip, we are going to be butterflying and skewering the shrimp so they provide a nice presentation for our composed dish. So I have selected 16/20 gulf shrimp and we are going to just slice them right down the back and all the way through. So we will end up with a butterfly shrimp with a nice tail intact and we are going to need seven per person. Now that we have had the shrimp butterflied, we are going to use our six inch bamboo skewer and poke it right through the tail in between where we butterflied it and the tip of its shell. I am going to face all of them go in the same direction. Now that we have our shrimp skewered and butterflied we are just going to season them with a little salt and pepper. So we are going to take our seasoned shrimp skewers and again, using a hot cast iron pan we are going to start out with just a little bit of olive oil in a pan and the shrimps will lay down just on the side. Place it back in the oven. So we are going to saute the shrimp and finish them with the garlic butter that we made in the previous step. We cook the shrimp fairly quick at a high temperature which will caramelize slightly the outside of the shrimp and add a lot of flavor to the dish. The tail starts to get just a little pink, we are going to flip them over. Add a couple of mace, fairly heaped in scoops of garlic butter, place them back in the oven. So after about three minutes in the oven with the garlic butter, we will pull the shrimp out and you can see the garlic has just started to brown in the pan and cook evenly. Our shrimp are starting to look nice and coated in the butter and just a slight translucence to the the shrimp and that is how we know that they are cooked, almost done and they will finish cooking as they sit in the pan while we saute our greens which we will be doing in the next step in making shrimp and grits.

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