Grilled Chipotle Shrimp Cocktail

This recipe is SOO good! It came from the "BBQ USA" cookbook with a few modifications. They list it as an appetizer but I have also served the shrimp with a salad as a meal. My seven year old even requested this for his birthday dinner last week! Cooking time reflects marinating time. Yield is an estimate. It depends on if you serve this as an appetizer or main dish.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 4-8

Ingredients

• 2  lbs  raw large shrimp or 2  lbs  raw jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined

• For the Marinade

• 3  tablespoons  chopped cilantro
• 2  cloves garlic, minced
• 1  teaspoon  minced chipotle chile in adobo, plus
• 2  teaspoons  of the adobo sauce, from the can
• 2  tablespoons olive oil
• 2  tablespoons fresh lime juice
•  salt and pepper

• For the sauce

• 1  cup ketchup
• 1⁄4 cup  orange juice, fresh preferred
• 2  tablespoons lime juice
• 1  tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 -2  chipotle chile in adobo, minced plus
• 2  teaspoons adobo sauce, from the can
•  salt and pepper
•  skewer, for grilling

Directions

1. If using wooden skewers, soak in cold water while shrimp marinates.
2. To marinate the shrimp: Put the cilanto, garlic and chipotle with sauce in to a glass or plastic bowl.
3. Stir in the olive oil and lime juice.
4. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Add the shrimp and toss to coat with marinade.
6. Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
7. For the sauce: Whisk together in a glass bowl the ketchup, orange juice, lime juice, worcestershire sauce and chipotles with sauce.
8. Add salt and pepper to taste.
9. Set aside.
10. To cook shrimp: Remove shrimp from marinade.
11. Discard marinade.
12. The original recipe called for threading one shrimp on each skewer.
13. This makes a nice presentation but takes a little longer to prepare!
14. I Thread several shrimp, about 4 or 5 depending on the size of the shrimp, on each skewer.
15. Place on an oiled grill that has been preheated to medium high.
16. Cook for about 2 minutes per side.
17. They will turn pink when done.
18. DO NOT OVERCOOK!
19. I have also done these on my George Foreman Grill without using the skewers.
20. (actually, this is how I do it most of the time!) Just throw the shrimp on and cook a couple of minutes.
21. Place bowl of sauce in the center of a round platter and arrange shrimp around the sauce.
22. Sprinkle with additional chopped cilantro if desired.
23. Enjoy!