Taste of Home
Bacon-Wrapped Blue Cheese Shrimp
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 30 min. Cook: 10 min.
YIELD: 16 appetizers.
Blue cheese, bacon and basil pack big flavor into a couple of bites. To save time, you can assemble the skewers the night before and then serve them hot from the broiler on the day. —Vivi Taylor, Middleburg, Florida
Ingredients
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1/4 cup butter, melted
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1 garlic clove, minced
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1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
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16 uncooked shrimp (16-20 per pound), peeled and deveined
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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1/8 teaspoon pepper
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16 cubes blue cheese (1/2 inch)
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16 fresh basil leaves
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8 bacon strips, halved
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1/4 cup finely chopped celery
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1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
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1 tablespoon minced fresh basil
Directions
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1.
Preheat broiler. Combine butter, garlic and pepper sauce. Cut a slit in each shrimp along the inside curve; flatten slightly. Sprinkle shrimp with salt and pepper. Press a cheese cube into slit. Wrap a basil leaf and bacon piece around each shrimp; secure with a toothpick.
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2.
Place shrimp on a greased rack of a broiler pan. Broil 6-8 in. from heat until shrimp turn pink and bacon is crisp, 5-6 minutes on each side, basting occasionally with butter mixture.
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3.
Arrange shrimp on a serving platter; sprinkle with celery, crumbled blue cheese and basil.
Nutrition Facts
1 appetizer: 88 calories, 6g fat (3g saturated fat), 47mg cholesterol, 230mg sodium, 1g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 7g protein.
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