Cajun Grilled Shrimp and Twisted Dirty Rice
Jumbo grill Gulf Coast shrimp turned out mighty fine and very simple to cook. If you can’t find head-on shrimp or gulf shrimp, it’s okay to use what’s available. Keep readingThe dirty rice is okay but not dirty rice per a Cajun's typical recipe.
Servings 2
Calories 1828kcal
Ingredients
Shrimp Nuts-n-Bolts
- 1 pound shrimp (jumbo )
- 3 tbsp Cottonmouth
- 2 tbsp butter
- ½ tbsp cilantro
- 1 tsp garlic ( clove super smashed with dash of salt.)
Dirty Rice Nuts-n-Bolts
- 14 ounce rice
- 28 ounce chicken broth
- ¼ cup bell pepper (chopped )
- 1 1/12 cup celery (chopped (3 stalks))
- 1 cup onion (chopped medium )
- 1 pound breakfast sausage
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
Dirty Rice Construction 1st
- In a medium heated saucepan spray some no stick spray (if needed) and drop in pork sausage.
- Cook pretty hard to where you get dark brown crispy pieces. The more the better.
- Drain pork and set aside.
- Put the dirty saucepan back on heat, add a shot of oil, then the trinity (onion, bell pepper, celery).
- Add salt while stirring trinity. Cook until onions turn translucent (non crunchy).
- Add cooked pork, chicken broth, and rice in trinity. Mix it up.
- Set heat to a simmer and cover for 10 minutes.
- This is a good time to start shrimp.
- Stoves vary in heat ranges. All four of my burners register different heat when set at same settings. Your simmer should be a week one to prevent bottom rice from burning. You might want to check and stir dirty rice at five minutes.
- At 10 minutes check if rice is done and taste test for salt. Depending on weather conditions it can take my rice extra time to cook.
- When ready set aside.
Shrimp To Plate
- Peel shrimps body armor “rings” from head to tail leaving head and tail on at your preference.
- Carefully cut line on back of shrimp to expose and remove crap line. Clean with cold water, carefully if you're keeping head and tails.
- Cover shrimp with Cottonmouth leaving a pinch for plating.
- Now these were done on a cast iron grill pan but I’d rather had them charcoaled.
- Get your grill pan to medium high heat.
- Spray no stick and lay in shrimp.
- Cook shrimp for about 1 minute per side and pull.
- Put butter, cilantro, garlic in bowl, and heat for about 30 seconds.
- I took a cereal bowl and filled it with dirty rice.
- Placed dinner plate on top of bowl upside down.
- Flipped the two together so plate is now upright and bowl is upside down.
- Removed bowl leaving perfectly shaped mountain of rice on plate.
- You can also just spoon some rice on plate.
- Lay shrimp all around rice mountain.
- Pour melted butter concoction over shrimps.
- Dash remaining Cottonmouth over plate.
- Pour yourself some Boones Farm and get after it!
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➕ Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Cajun Grilled Shrimp and Twisted Dirty Rice
Amount Per Serving (355 g)
Calories 1828
Calories from Fat 693
% Daily Value*
Fat 77g118%
Saturated Fat 28g175%
Cholesterol 765mg255%
Sodium 7157mg311%
Potassium 1680mg48%
Carbohydrates 174g58%
Fiber 6g25%
Sugar 5g6%
Protein 98g196%
Vitamin A 2200IU44%
Vitamin C 70.5mg85%
Calcium 482mg48%
Iron 10.7mg59%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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