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Shrimp and Grits - Sautéing the Baby Spinach

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

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Shrimp and Grits - Sautéing the Baby Spinach

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 from FireFlies Restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia. Today we are making shrimp and grits. In this clip we will be finishing the dish and tying it all together. The last step is to saute our baby spinach. So we are going to take again, our preheated cast iron pan and add just a little bit of olive oil, about three cups of cleaned baby spinach and put it in the oven for about 15 seconds. We want the spinach to just wilt a little bit. Now that our spinach is starting to wilt we can take half a lemon and we will just mix that together. The heat from the pan will continue to cook this, so there is no need to put it back in the oven at this stage. Now to finish the plate, we are going to lay our sauted baby spinach right across our grits and then we are going to take our shrimp that we have sauted in the garlic butter and lay these right across the top. So by butterflying the shrimp in the previous steps we are able to create a nice base for presentation and also really evenly cook the shrimp so everything cooks nice and tender without overcooking. We have our flavorful garlic butter in the pan which will become our sauce for the dish. This is shrimp and grits.

by Twinkle at 06/13/08 12:19AM Flag

Easy to follow sounds great, plan to try soon

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