Succulent, spicy, scrumptious shrimp anyone? Can you give me another descriptive “S” word ya’ll?Ā I don’t think that I used nearly enough.
I know that Memorial Day weekend is usually all about grilling but since we live on the coast I enjoy making some seafood snacks to go along with my oversized stuffed burgers. This is one that my darlin’ can’t get enough of. Unfortunately the monkeys taste buds are still developing but that just means more for me right. Oh Yeah!
I am sure that someone else must have come up with a spicy shrimp tortilla recipe before now but this is my version. This recipe makes approx. 20-22 tortilla chips. If you need more all you have to do is double the ingredients.
Here is what you will need.
Cajun Shrimp Tortillas
5 cloves of garlic-minced
1 shallot-minced
1 medium firm tomato-diced
1/2 cup diced green pepper
1/2 cup canned sweet corn
1/2 lb shrimp-cleaned & deveined
1 tsp Cajun’s Choice Creole Seasoning
a pinch of sea salt
2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
Tostitos Blue Corn Chips or your favorite tortilla chips
1/2 cup Gruyere’ or cheese of your choice-garnish
1/2 cup sour cream-garnish
1 tsp chives-garnish
1 tsp lemon zest-garnish
Prep work-
Pre-heat the oven to 400
Coat a baking sheet with EVOO or cooking spray.
Clean & devein the shrimp pat dry between paper towels. Coat the shrimp in Cajun seasoning, add a pinch of sea salt and set aside.
Mince the garlic and shallot.
Dice the tomato and green pepper.
First-
Begin sauteing the garlic and shallot on medium heat in 1 tsp of EVolive oil for approx. 2 minutes (you do not want it to turn golden).
Add the green pepper, tomato and corn in with the garlic and shallot. Saute for approx. 5-8 minutes. Basically you want to sweat out as much moisture as possible, yet you don’t want to cook the veggies so long that they become mushy. Once the veggies are done set aside.
Saute the shrimp on medium heat in 1tsp EV olive oil until just firm and pink, approx. 6-8 minutes. Once the shrimp is done remove them from the saute pan and rough chop into bite size pieces.
Now the fun part, build your tortillas š Lay out the blue chips on the baking sheet and add approx. 1/2 tsp of the veggie mixture to each chip, then a few pieces of shrimp on top and lastly sprinkle with a smidgen of Gruyere’ or your favorite cheese.
Bake approx. 2-3 minutes or until the cheese has melted.
Garnish with sour cream, chives & lemon zest. Even an extra little sprinkle of Cajun seasoning and TA-DOW!! TICKLE me happy š
Now if you need more heat go ahead and play around with the seasoning. As you know I always encourage ya’ll to be creative with the recipes that I share. Make them your own and let me know what you come up with.
I hope that ya’ll have a wonderful holiday weekend grilling, eating and spending time with all of your family and friends.
XOXO,
Tickled Red
May 28, 2010 at 7:29 pm
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May 29, 2010 at 9:44 am
I loooove shhhrimp. I love grilled shrimp, fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, spicy shrimp….. etc. -and of course NOW- Cajun Shrimp Tortillas! Yummy!
May 29, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Awww thanks so much darlin’ š
May 29, 2010 at 10:37 am
That looks SOOOOO stinkin’ yummy!!! You have the best recipes. I’m printing this one out.
=D
May 29, 2010 at 10:03 pm
You are entirely too kind…but I luv ya for it š
May 29, 2010 at 6:02 pm
I am trying this SOON! I likey!!!
Thank you for your sweet post to my blog by the way. We are heading to Holden Beach in about a week so I will wave really big!!! You might even see me floating in the ocean with my eyes closed and soaking it up on a tube your way that week. I can only hope my blog is as interesting and fun as yours!
May 29, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I might have to drive over and see you. Girl you are going to make me cry with your compliments and that’s no joke…I have been known to cry at some commercials š
June 2, 2010 at 11:23 am
MMMM! You know me and shrimp!! Add in a little crunch and I just love it!
Looks great!
June 3, 2010 at 8:26 am
Thanks love š I won’t lie they were gone in a flash.
June 5, 2010 at 4:22 pm
those look delicious!!! great combinations of flavors sitting on top of those chips!!
thanks so much for sharing!
June 5, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Wow!! Thank you so very much for the compliment. Coming from you Dennis that means a lot. You actually made me speechless.
June 7, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Yummy, yum, yum!!!
June 7, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Thanks darlin’ š