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GRILLED SHRIMP COCKTAIL
Grilled Shrimp Cocktail
After these plump up from a quick brine, and cook in their shells, they'll eat more like peel-and-eat lobster tails than plain old shrimp.
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- Cooking Time: 5 minutes
- Servings: 6
- Preparation Time: 3 hours to overnight
- Cocktail Sauce
- 2 cups ketchup
- 2 T freshly grated horseradish
- 2 T bottled horseradish
- 2 T lemon juice
- 1-1/2 T Worcestershire
- 1 T hot sauce
- 2 finely grated shallots
- Brine
- 8 cups water
- 1/4 cup kosher salt
- 2 T sugar
- 2 lemons
- 4 minced garlic cloves
- 3 cups ice
- 24 large unpeeled deveined shrimp
- Shrimp
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 lemons
- 1/4 cup minced chives
- salt
- pepper
- oil
DIRECTIONS
Cocktail Sauce
Stir together ketchup, freshly grated horseradish, bottled horseradish, 2 T lemon juice, Worcestershire, hot sauce and grated shallots; chill 2 hours to overnight.
Brine
Combine water, salt, sugar, juice from 2 lemons, squeezed lemon halves, garlic and ice. Stir in shrimp; chill 1 hour.
Shrimp
Whisk together olive oil, juice of 2 lemons, chives, salt and pepper; set aside.
Oil and season shrimp; grill 4 minutes per side until just cooked through. Toss shrimp with oil mixture and serve with cocktail sauce.
RECIPE BACKSTORY
After these plump up from a quick brine, and cook in their shells, they'll eat more like peel-and-eat lobster tails than plain old shrimp.
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