Grilled Spot Prawns (or Shrimp) with Corn Pudding
Updated April 29, 2024
- Total Time
- 1½ hours
- Cook Time
- 1 to 1½ hours
- Rating
- Notes
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Ingredients
- 1teaspoon kosher salt
- ½cup grits
- 2½cups corn kernels, scraped from 2 to 3 ears
- ¼cup crème fraîche
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1dozen spot prawns or blue prawns or baby shrimp, peeled, deveined and among skewers
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 3tablespoons olive oil
- 1teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 2teaspoons lemon juice
- 1breakfast radish, thinly sliced and soaked in ice water for 5 minutes
- 1tablespoon Walla Walla red salad onion (spring onion) or any sweet onion, thinly sliced and soaked in ice water for 5 minutes
- 10flat-leaf parsley leaves
- 1teaspoon thinly sliced chives
For the Corn Pudding
For the Prawns and Relish
Preparation
For the Corn Pudding
- Step 1
Combine 2 cups water and the salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Step 2
Pour in the grits, stirring continuously until the mixture returns to a boil; reduce the heat to low and cook, covered, for 1 to 1½ hours. Stir occasionally.
- Step 3
Put the corn in a blender and purée on high until the corn is smooth.
- Step 4
Pass the purée through a chinois, pressing out as much corn milk as possible. Discard the solids left in the strainer.
- Step 5
Place the corn milk in a saucepan and bring to a simmer over high heat while constantly stirring until thickened. Remove from the heat and reserve.
For the Prawns and Relish
- Step 6
Once the grits are tender, fold in the thickened corn milk and crème fraîche. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper. Set aside, covered, until ready to serve.
- Step 7
Heat a grill to medium high. Season the skewered prawns liberally with salt and pepper and rub with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Set the skewers on the heated grill. Cook until caramelized and just cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Step 8
Remove the shrimp from the skewers and cut into ½-inch pieces and toss in a bowl with the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, the lemon zest, lemon juice, radish, onion, parsley and chives. Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Step 9
Spoon some of the grits onto a plate and top with the shrimp salad (a bit off to the side, so it’s not like a crown on the grits).
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
This was yummy. I will say this, i treated cooking the grits more like cooking risotto. 2 cups of water wont last 1 1/2 hours. I also cooked the grits on indirect heat . The grits with the sweetness of the corn and the lemony salad was a perfect contrast.
My wife said this was the best dish I'd made for her in quite some time. I forgot to buy radishes, and accidentally left out the chives, and I didn't season the shrimp at all (because I think it's salty enough when you pull it out of the ocean), and it was still fabulous! I served it with Capresi salad, made with a home grown mortgage lifter, and today's harvest of green beans. Fantastic!
This was yummy. I will say this, i treated cooking the grits more like cooking risotto. 2 cups of water wont last 1 1/2 hours. I also cooked the grits on indirect heat . The grits with the sweetness of the corn and the lemony salad was a perfect contrast.
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