African Grilled Shrimp
by Dee
Rating:
3 ★
Ingredients
- • Serves/Makes:4-6
- • Ingredients
- • Marinade:
- • 1/4 cup (60 ml) lemon juice
- • 1/2 cup (125 ml) olive oil
- • 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- • 1 2 tsp (10 ml). Peri peri
- • 1 tbsp (15 ml). fresh cilantro
- • salt and pepper to taste
- • 1-1/2 lbs (.7 kg). fresh shrimp, shelled and cleaned
- • Garlic Butter:
- • 1/2 cup (125 ml) butter
- • 1 tbsp (15 ml). chopped garlic
- • 1 tbsp (15 ml). cilantro
- • 1 2 tsp (10 ml). Peri peri
- • salt and pepper
- • pinch of sugar
- • Peri Peri Rice:
- • 1 chopped onion
- • 1 chopped red pepper
- • 1 cup (225 ml) rice, rinsed
- • 1/2 cup (125 ml) white wine (optional, but increase stock a bit)
- • 2 cups (475 ml) chicken broth
- • fresh cilantro, to garnish
- • lemon or lime juice, to garnish
Instructions
- Mix the marinade ingrediants together and pour over shrimp.
- Marinade for 30 min to an hour; set aside while preparing garlic butter.
- Mix together ingredients for garlic butter and cook over low heat until butter is melted.
- Remove shrimp from marinade (reserve marinade) and broil or grill, basting with garlic-butter until shrimp is cooked.
- Now, serve with rice to go with shrimp (recipe follows).
- Peri peri Rice for African Shrimp:
- Saute onion and red pepper in the reserved marinade until they are soft and translucent.
- Add rice and saute rice in the onion/pepper/marinade mixture for a couple of minutes, to bring out a nice toasty flavor.
- Turn up the heat and add the chicken stock and wine.
- Bring to a boil, cover and turn heat on lowest setting.
- Cook/steam rice until done, about twenty minutes.
- Serve rice with shrimp and garlic butter and garnish with cilantro and lemon juice.
