GRILLED SHRIMP with SPICY GARLIC PASTE
Serves 4
Ingreditents
Brine
- Big Poppa Smokers Sweet Brine O’ Mine*
- 2 Pounds Large (21 to 25 count per LB) NC Shrimp (brown, pink or white variety depending on time of year
- Lemon Wedges
- Broil King Dual Prong SS Skewers*
Directions for Brine
- Mix enough brine to submerge shrimp and in accordance with label instructions
- Mix and then lightly heat the brine mixture to completely dissolve the brine
- Cool in refrigerator for quicker chill or chill at room if planning ahead
- Once brine is cool submerge prepped shrimp in Brining Bucket*with adjustable plate to keep shrimp submerged
- Brine for 15-20 minutes
Spicy Garlic Paste Ingredients
The garlic paste adheres perfectly to the shells and will coat your fingers as you peel and eat the grilled shrimp …yummm
- 4 cloves of garlic, minced or grated
- To make a paste,drag a chef knife thru the salt and minced garlic over and over until a paste is created
- 2 teaspoons of Himalayan Salt*
- 1 ½ teaspoons of Dizzy Pig’s Jamaican Firewalk*
- 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
Directions for Spicy Garlic Paste
To make the garlic paste you have 2 options.
- If you have a fine grater you can grate the garlic gloves & mix with salt, stirring to create a paste as the salt drys out the garlic and creates a paste
- You can mince garlic, mix with salt and drag blade of a chef’s knife back and forth over the salt and minced garlic putting fair amount of pressure on mixture to make a paste as salt works to break down garlic and knife pressure breaks minced garlic into paste
- After garlic has formed paste add remaining ingredients
- Coat the shrimp well with garlic paste
- Lightly oil skewers and thread seasoned shrimp onto Double Pronged Skewers*
Grilled Salmon
A fresh piece of salmon is hard to beat when grilled over charcoal or on a gas grill.
Here are couple of tips for a successful cook:
Check the fillet for “belly bones” (pinbones) and remove.
Make sure your cooking grate is thoroughly cleaned to avoid sticking.
Make sure the grill is preheated before putting the salmon on the cooking grate.
Place the salmon on a piece of foil, season and use the foil to easily slide the salmon onto the cooking grate.
Place the fillet perpendicular to the cooking grate.
For smoking, Alder is a preferred wood but at Grillbilllies we can only source kiln dried wood which we will not sell so we use sugar maple as a substitute.
When cutting to serve, cut the fillet width wise but do not cut through the skin. Use a spatula and place it between the meat and the skin to serve.
Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients:
Oakridge Game Changer Brine
2+ lb. skin on salmon fillet
2 Sugar maple wood chunks 2″ to 3″ or 1/2 lb. of sugar maple pellets
3 oz. Vegetable oil
2 tbsp. Dizzy Pig Raging River, Tsunami or Pineapple Head
1 medium size lemon
1 tbsp.. Fresh chopped parsley
Preparation:
Mix the Oakridge Game Changer per the label instructions.
Place the fillet in the brine, cover, place in the fridge and let sit for about 3 hours.
15 mins. before removing the fillet from the brine start the grill. If cooking on charcoal start the grill 1/2 hour before.
With a paper towel, oil the cooking grate well.
Grilling with charcoal-
Once you have achieved a good coal bed place wood chunks right on the lit coals. Give the coals about 5 to 10 mins. to produce “good smoke”.
Grilling with a gas grill-
If you decide to use pellets, follow the instructions on the package for placing pellets on the grill. Unlike wood chunks, once the pellets are lit and the is grill up to temp place the fillet on the cooking grate.
Take a piece of foil that is large enough to fit the fillet, lightly coat the foil with oil large enough for the flllet.
Remove from the fillet from the brine, place on the heavy duty foil skin side down, blot dry, coat the topside with a light coat of oil and season.
When the grill temp is around 350 degrees, slide the fillet off the foil onto the grill and close the lid.
The cook time is dependent on the thickness of the fillet but normally 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
When the internal temp reaches 145 degrees remove from the grill with 2 regular sized spatulas or a wide fish spatula..
Add a few thinned cut lemon slices on top and sprinkle a light coat of parsley and serve.
