Grilled Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp
Servings: 21 shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 pound uncooked bacon cut in half — if you don't have a good local source for farm bacon from pastured pork, you can get bacon from a safe online source here.
- 1 pound uncooked jumbo shrimp 21 – 25 per pound, tail-off and deveined (Try to find some without icky preservatives!)
- 1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice between 2 and 4 lemons, depending on size
- 1/2 cup organic ketchup
- 6 to 12 dashes of your favorite hot pepper sauce – depending on how much “heat” you want
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 cup olive oil find real olive oil here
Instructions
- Mixed lemon juice, ketchup, hot sauce, garlic, and olive oil together and marinate the shrimp for about an hour or longer. (There's plenty of marinade so you could do 2#'s of shrimp with this recipe.)
- Wrap the bacon around the shrimp and thread onto long metal skewers. Use extra marinade to brush all over the skewers to get some on the bacon as well.
- Grill until bacon is crisp – about 10 to 12 minutes. David says: “Don't have your heat too high, and watch for fire flare-ups — you don’t want to burn the beauties to a black crisp! (I did that once because I was not attentive to my grill!)”