What could be better right? Seafood, in this case shrimp, wrapped up in a pocket of tasty bacon! This recipe is a fairly quick and easy one based loosely on a tasty dish from Pappasito's Mexican Cantina called Shrimp Brochette. I made this one up myself and have tinkered with it a bit until I came up with the easiest way possible to make this dish. You only need 4 basic ingredients:
Shrimp, (the bigger the better, peeled, deveined and I even removed the tails.) Actually I bought them peeled and deveined and only removed the tails myself ;) Some cream cheese, either the tub kind or regular block kind softened slightly. Some jalapeno pepper (fresh, seeded, sliced into strips) and bacon, I prefer regular as opposed to thick cut. (You cut each strip in half.)
So this is easy peasy-Cut into shrimp in the same area where they are deveined a little deeper but not all the way through. Add some cream cheese and a slice of pepper...
Wrap shrimp in bacon. Now from this point there are a couple of ways you can continue. The first time I tried this I skewered them and cooked them on the grill but honestly they were a little hard to skewer without the insides squirting out and they flamed up a good bit on the grill. Next try was on a broiler pan with a toothpick stuck in each one. But this time I just wrapped them up and laid them on the broiler pan like so...
Fire up the broiler on your oven, pop these puppies in for 5 mins, pull them out, flip them each over with some tongs and pop them in for 5 more minutes. You end up with something that looks a bit like this...
Ok granted they aren't beautiful for company. But they taste GREAT!
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