Blue Cheese-Stuffed Shrimp
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 20 min. + chilling
YIELD: 2 dozen.
Cooked shrimp become something more extraordinary when stuffed with blue cheese. The mild flavor has mass appeal.—Amy Dollimount, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Ingredients
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3 ounces cream cheese, softened
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2/3 cup minced fresh parsley, divided
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1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
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1 teaspoon chopped shallot
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1/2 teaspoon Creole mustard
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24 cooked jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined
Directions
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1.
In a small bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in 1/3 cup parsley, blue cheese, shallot and mustard. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
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2.
Make a deep slit along the back of each shrimp to within 1/4 to 1/2 in. of the bottom. Stuff with cream cheese mixture; press remaining parsley onto cream cheese mixture.
Nutrition Facts
1 stuffed shrimp: 43 calories, 2g fat (1g saturated fat), 54mg cholesterol, 89mg sodium, 0 carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 6g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 meat.
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