Shrimp and Cheese Grits
"This recipe come from The Crook's Corner Restaurant in Chapel Hill, NC and The Southern Living Magazine, February 2008 edition."
photo by MsSally
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 20
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
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For Shrimp
- 2 slices bacon
- 1 lb unpeeled medium raw shrimp
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1⁄2 cup chopped green onion
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup fat-free low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon hot sauce
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For Cheese Grits
- 1 (14 ounce) can fat-free low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 cup nonfat milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup uncooked quick-cooking grits
- 3⁄4 cup shredded 2% reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese
- 1⁄4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 1⁄2 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1⁄4 teaspoon white pepper
directions
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For Shrimp:
- Over medium heat cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet for 10 minutes or until crisp; remove bacon, crumble, and drain on paper towels, reserving 1 tsp drippings in skillet.
- Peel shrimp and devein, if desired.
- Sprinkle shrimp with salt and pepper; then dredge in flour.
- Sauté mushrooms in hot bacon drippings with oil in skillet 5 minutes or until tender.
- Add green onions, and sauté 2 minutes.
- Add shrimp and garlic, and sauté 2 minutes or until shrimp are lightly browned.
- Stir in chicken broth, lemon juice, and hot sauce, and cook 2 more minutes, stirring to loosen particles from bottom of skillet.
- Spoon shrimp mixture over hot Cheese Grits; sprinkle with crumbled bacon.
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For Cheese Grits:
- Bring first 3 ingredients and 1 1/3 cups water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat; gradually whisk in grits. Reduce heat to low, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes or until thickened. Stir in Cheddar cheese and next 3 ingredients.
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Reviews
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Out of respect for your submission made this recipe as stated. This was the 2nd best grits recipe I have experienced! If you ever obtain Hyman's Grit Cake with garlic alfredo sauce.....be sure to post (Charleston SC). This was a treat! Used quick grits and they turned out just right. Thanks for posting....come on folks just try the recipe as it is written....you won't be sorry. -
I made this for our dinner last night & we loved it. My alterations/suggestions: (1) Used 2% milk since that was what I had on hand, (2) Reduced the amount of extra water added to the grits in step 11 to 3/4 cups. You can always add more water--you can't take it back out :-), (3) I realized while cooking that by the time the ingredients you add in step 8 thicken...the shrimp were going to be horribly overcooked (hello rubber bouncing balls). I pulled the shrimp out when they were just to the slightly-underdone point, turned the heat up on the burner & reduced the sauce to a thicker consistency for a couple of minutes. Then poured it over the shrimp in the bowl (hot sauce = keeps cooking delicate seafood). (4) Another Suggestion-- cut the amount of ingredients for the cheesegrits in half if you are just cooking for a couple of people. The cheese-grit flavor is great, but it makes a TON. I will be getting creative with leftover cheesegrits tonight for dinner :-P... -
This is the best grits recipe ever. I mad a few changes to mine. I added more green onions b/c I chop mine really fine and used 1/2 cup of that. I left out the mushrooms(other family hates them). I used chicken broth cubes and made one cup of chicken broth. I also add chicken cube to the water for grits. Extra sharp cheddar cheese and Asiago. Then I added about 2 extra cups of milk to grits and cooked and stirred for about 35-45 minutes. I don't like gritty grits. Also used whole milk. -
In a few words, we LOVED this southern favorite! I used large shrimp and they were tender and delicious. The grits were excellent and I had no problem with them. I felt they were the right consistency for the dish. Grits aren't supposed to be super thick anyway. This will be repeated when company is joining us, so I can impress them with my cooking talents :) Loved this one!
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This was a very good, Southern dish. My only problem was that my grits never got very thick till they were cool. The shrimp had alot of flavor and made a nice sauce to go over the grits. Next time, I think I would omit about 1/2 of the water asked for in step one of the grits. But overall a great recipe.
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Bev I Am
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