"Saved by the buoyancy of citrus" Shrimp

In addition to a very successful druck chicken on the grill last night, I also threw together a nice little shrimp dish as an appetizer, except because of drucken mishaps it was a post-appetizer. Sorry no pictures this time

I hope someone out there gets the reference to the recipe name

"Saved by the buoyancy of citrus" Shrimp

8-10 raw Jumbo 'easy-peel' shrimp
1 lime
1 lemon
Some lime juice
A bunch of cilantro
A dash of sea salt

-Slice the lemon and lime into awesome looking discs
-Peel shrimp but leave the tail attached
-In a bowl mix together shrimp, lime juice, salt and cilantro
-Let rest for 5 or 10 minutes, the lime juice will sort of "cook" the shrimp
-On a decent sized sheet of aluminum foil dump the contents of the bowl, and arrange lemon and lime slices amongst the shrimp and juices
-Wrap the aluminum foil up around the shrimp making an aluminum foil burrito of sorts and place onto a preheated grill on medium-medium low for about 15-20 minutes.

This basically steams the shrimp in all that good juice and makes an awesome refreshing appetizer. MMMMMMMM.

Sounds good, quick and easy. I wouldn't think it would take 15 minutes on the grill though.

I miss Mitch Hedberg, that was a funny bit.

It took a while for the juices and everything to get steaming, so I just used a guesstimate time frame. I should just say until cooked.

Damn, Lars already answered the trivia question. Good ol' Mitch. I was chuckling as I opened the link.

Can I use the same recipe for Prawns? /s

I don't see why not, I haven't made this with prawns before but these shrimp were just as big.

Sorry mate, the /s was the sarcasm switch

We don't have "Shrimp" here in Aus... they are all "Prawns"

But I'll give teh recipe a try, and scale back the time factor to less than 2 mins per side.

Cheers!

PeteOz77 said:

We don't have "Shrimp" here in Aus... they are all "Prawns"

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So Paul Hogan was lying to us when he promised to "slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you!"

Hmmm I always just thought prawns were huge shrimp

Man, I wouldn't even cook it. Just ceviche' that ****

That would have taken hours with these big ol shrimps, I suppose Ill try it next time though.

BlindLemonLars said:

So Paul Hogan was lying to us when he promised to "slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you!"

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He said Shrimp, so Americans would know what he was talking about

SHRIMP

mr_stimey said:

That would have taken hours with these big ol shrimps, I suppose Ill try it next time though.

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Well, if you chop it up, 30 minutes, but if you wanted them whole, then possibly.

I nearly shat myself when I saw prawns this big while walking along the markets in Paton Beach, Thailand. They call them U5 size (under 5 per pound).. That's right! 1/4 lb Prawns




That's a 34cm (13.5") cutting board

Oh wow, thems some bigguns