Shrimp + Grits w/ Pork Belly
Shrimp + Grits w/ Pork Belly

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, shrimp + grits w/ pork belly. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Transfer the pork belly to a work surface and let cool slightly, then cut each piece in half crosswise. Garnish with crushed peanuts and the pickled radishes and scallions and serve. Nobody does crispy pork belly like the Chinese!

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shrimp + grits w/ pork belly using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Shrimp + Grits w/ Pork Belly:
  1. Prepare 2 lbs wild 60-70 shrimp (medium sized)
  2. Prepare 4 jalepenos, de-seeded and roughly chopped
  3. Prepare 4 oz high quality bacon or pork belly, chopped
  4. Prepare 1/2 Vidalia onion, chopped
  5. Get 1 lemon, juice
  6. Make ready 1/4 cup cornstarch
  7. Get 2 cloves garlic, minced
  8. Get 1/4 cup Valentina hot sauce or to taste
  9. Prepare 4 tbsp butter (unsalted)
  10. Prepare 1/4 cup water
  11. Take 1 tsp salt and cracked pepper
  12. Take 4 scallions, sliced, reserve extra for garnish
  13. Make ready 1/4 cup chopped parsley (for garnish)
  14. Take For the Grits
  15. Get 1 cup geechie boy grits (or wtv brand)
  16. Get 4 cups water
  17. Prepare 2 tbsp butter (unsalted)
  18. Get 1/4 cup cream cheese
  19. Get 1 tsp salt

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Steps to make Shrimp + Grits w/ Pork Belly:
  1. Prep all the vegetables like peppers, onions, garlic, scallions, parsley and pork belly (this is so necessary)
  2. Add 4 cups of water to a stock pot and bring to a boil. Add in the grits and salt and stir. Once it’s at a boil reduce to medium low and keep stirring. Cook for 25 min.
  3. In a large saucepan on medium heat add the pork belly and cook until crisp and fat is rendered
  4. Add the onions, garlic, jalapeños. Sauté for 2 min. Add shrimp (peeled and deveined) and season with salt and pepper). Cook for 4 minutes.
  5. Mix water and cornstarch in a bowl and set aside. This will thicken the shrimp and grits.
  6. Add the hot sauce, lemon juice, scallions to the pot and scrape the bacon bits on the bottom of the pan. Add cornstarch mixture and let come to a boil. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 5 min while finishing up grits. Fold in butter and turn off the heat.
  7. When grits have soaked up most of the liquid (add more water if needed) add in the cream cheese and butter and stir for 2-3 minutes until combined. Turn off the heat.
  8. Plate grits and top with shrimp mixture. Garnish with scallions and parsley and enjoy! 🤤
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This recipe for shrimp and grits starts with a clever tip for jump-starting the grits that I learned from Southern chef Sean Brock. In an ideal world, we'd all be getting fresh coastal shrimp for our shrimp and grits — but we'll settle for frozen shrimp with the shell on. Appetizer / SideCrispy Pork Belly (gfycat.com). All these pork belly recipes lately are really making me wish I knew where to find pork belly around here. They were so big and had shrimp, pork, cabbage and diced up veggies in them, you could eat them alone as a meal!

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