How to Cook Rum-Glazed Shrimps

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 10 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins

Ingredients needed to make Rum-Glazed Shrimps:

• 32 medium  shrimps, peeled, deveined, shelled but tails retained
• 1 ripe, firm mango, peeled and sliced into 1’’ thick slivers
• 2 bunches watercress, tough stems chopped off
• ¼ cup dark rum
• ¼ cup + 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 1 tbsp fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated
• 3 tbsp dark brown sugar
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil, plus more for greasing
• 1 ½ tsp cornstarch
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Cooking instructions for Rum-Glazed Shrimps:

• Soak 12 wooden skewers in a bowl of water and set aside for 15 minutes.
• To prepare the glaze, whisk the ginger, sugar and rum in ¼ cup lime juice until well combined.
• Pour the mixture into a small saucepan and heat it over high flame until it begins to boil.
• Reduce to a simmer and continue to cook likewise for about 3 minutes, while stirring it at times, until it thickens slightly.
• Dissolves cornstarch in a tbsp of water until well combined and pour it into the simmering mixture.
• Whisk them together until they blend properly and continue to cook briskly for half a minute or until it thickens further.
• Turn off the heat and set aside to allow it to cool.
• Insert each skewer through 4 shrimps and rub a dash of seasonings all over them.
• Insert a couple of mango slices in each of the remaining skewer smother them with a generous lashing of prepared glaze.
• Warm up your outdoor grill to moderately high heat and grease the grill rack with a lashing of olive oil.
• Arrange the skewers on the hot grill rack and grill for about 3-4 minutes per side, or until they get charred at places and the flesh of the shrimps turn opaque, indicating that they are cooked through.
• Spoon rest of the fresh lime juice into a large bowl and drizzle a splash of oil into it.
• Sprinkle a dash of salt as well as pepper and whisk them thoroughly until well combined.
• Throw in the watercress and toss them together until well coated.
• For serving, arrange a bed of dressed watercress across each serving plate and place a couple of skewered shrimps and one mango skewer on top of each.
• Serve right away.

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Last Updated on March 18, 2013 by