Tequila Adobo BBQ Shrimp

"This shrimp is a treat. I first had this at a restaurant down in Mexico. The taste always stayed in the back of my mind. Someone else had also eaten this dish at Pappadeaux's and I promised to help find the recipe. I found something similar, but couldn't quite get the sauce right. I must have been thinking about it pretty hard, because I had a dream about how to come up with the sauce. It was a simple solution too! Maybe I should have named this "Shrimp with Dream Sauce.""
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
20
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Shrimp Marinade and Grilling: In a glass bowl, stir together Tequila, lime juice, garlic and pepper.
  • Marinate shrimp for 30 minutes, stirring once or twice.
  • Over marinating will result in a very strong flavor!
  • Remove shrimp from marinade, and wrap shrimp in bacon pieces.
  • Thread shrimp on skewers and lightly sprinkle with seasoning salt.
  • Grill shrimp over medium hot charcoal fire, basting with Adobo BBQ sauce.
  • Turn shrimp every 2 minutes and continue to baste.
  • The shrimp should cook for about 10 minutes.
  • Bacon will be cooked, but not crisped.
  • Serve immediately and drizzle with additional sauce.
  • BBQ Adobo Sauce: Add dried chilies (except chipotle pepper) to 1 1/2 cups of boiling water.
  • Let sit for 15 minutes.
  • Remove chilies and reserve 1/2 cup of chile water.
  • Add chile, reserved water, onion, garlic, oregano, cinnamon, and cumin to a blender and puree.
  • Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan.
  • Sautee puree in pan and add vinegar and sugar, bring to a boil.
  • Reduce heat and simmer until thick.
  • This should yield 2 cups of Adobo sauce.
  • I freeze the extra sauce.
  • Mix 1/2 cup of Adobo sauce with 1/2 cup of prepared BBQ sauce.
  • Differing the proportions of the mixture will give you varying degrees of spice.
  • Use this mixture to baste shrimp and drizzle remaining on shrimp.

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Reviews

  1. Two outstanding recipes are combined to create the the most delicious shrimp dish I have ever had the pleasure to eat! The shrimp are marinated in a tequila, lime, garlic mixture and then wrapped in bacon before grilling. The Na'lins style sauce is a combination of homemade Adobo and purchased BBQ sauces. The result is a smokey, dark, smouldering, thick, rich, hot and slightly sweet complex sauce. Grilling the marinated, bacon wrapped shrimp with the Adobo-BBQ sauce produces a layering of the unique flavors. You can control the level of heat by using more or less BBQ sauce. The only thing I would change would be to use a less sweet BBQ sauce - just a personal preference. Dawn, thank you so much for creating "Shrimp with Dream Sauce". You certainly have dreamed up a heavenly gourmet treat.
     
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I?m ?originally from Texas, but now live in Florida. Still gotta have that spice though....love chipotle peppers, habaneros, and jalapenos. This is a picture of myself & my 2 daughters taken in Dec'06. I am working on my graduate degree, & still work as a nurse prn. When I'm not cooking and eating what I cook... I head for the gym to work out. As far as cookbooks, I love the church/ community cookbooks, where someone has dug out old handwritten recipes by granny and shared them with others-those are the best kind. If I had a month off, I'd for sure go hiking, would love to visit Australia and New Zealand.?
 
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