This recipe is fantastic for any time you want to cook out with Caribbean inspired flavors such as rum, allspice, citrus, cinnamon, Scotch bonnet peppers and cilantro. While not quite jerk, the influence is definitely there. I love to serve these freakishly good tasting grilled shrimp over a bed of mashed sweet potatoes topped with fresh grilled pineapple slices that have been marinated in dark brown sugar along side my Caribbean Island Salad found here.
Serve all this up with a few pitchers of mojitos and you may think you are on vacation or at least just wished you were. Pass the rum please.
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 lbs extra large shrimp, peeled with tails left on, butterfliedand deveined
For the marinade
- 3/4cup dark rum
- 1/2 cup pina colada mix
- 1/4 honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- 3 tablespoons fresh grated ginger
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 Scotch bonnet chile, stemmed, seeded and minced (substitute habanero)
- 2 dashes Liquid Smoke®
- zest of 1 lemon
PREPARATION:
1. Mix the marinade ingredients in a nonreactive bowl Then add shrimp and marinate for at least 10 minutes but no longer than 30.
2 Preheat grill to medium heat and grill shrimp for about 2 – 4 minutes per side, being careful not to over cook them as they will become tough and chewy.
Serves 4
Heat Factor = 2 (Medium)
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Looks like a great recipe! This looks so good, I might give it try…
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This is my kind of dish! I love the idea of serving it over mashed sweet potatoes. Looks great!
Coconut and pineapple are terrific tropical flavors. Spring is coming so pineapple must be in the air!
I haven’t had grilled pineapple in a long time!!
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I think I would absolutely love this! Shrimp is my favorite food.. I LOVE IT! I bet this would be amazing with mashed potatoes, although I’ve never had mashed sweet potatoes.. I bet they’re good. I’m like a food virgin, ha. There are so many things I HAVEN’T had!
I wish I was a fan of shrimp, still learning to eat seafood. Photograph is amazing looking.
What is that on the right back part of the dish? Marinated Pineapple?
Yes! Grilled pineapple marinated in brown sugar. It was very good with the sweet potato mash