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Grits-a-Ya-Ya

Recipe courtesy Jim Shirley, The Fish House, Pensacola, Florida
Show: Emeril's Florida Episode: Pensacola
TOTAL TIME: 1 hr
Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 40 min
YIELD: 4 servings
LEVEL: Easy

ingredients

GRITS:
THE SHRIMP YA YA:
  • 8 strips applewood smoked bacon, diced
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon minced shallots
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • White wine
  • 1 pound peeled and deveined jumbo shrimp
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Directions

For the grits: Run the chicken stock into a thick-bottomed saucepan and turn on high till it boils. Mix in the grits and stir like crazy. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add a little cream if you need more liquid.

Then, tumble in the butter, add the creamed corn, drizzle in the rest of the cream and stir until it's all in the family.

Shake in the shredded cheese and stir very well until it's nice and smooth.

For the shrimp: While your grits cook, bring a large saucepan to medium heat. Add the bacon and cook for about 3 minutes, then add the garlic and shallots and saute. Add the butter and a splash of white wine and cook until the butter is half melted, then add the shrimp. Cook until the downsides of the shrimp become white, then flip them and add the spinach, scallions and mushrooms and saute for 2 minutes.

Remove the shrimp. Pour in the heavy cream and let simmer, stirring, until reduced by one-third. Add salt, pepper and hot sauce to taste. Return the shrimp and stir to combine.

To serve, spoon the sauce and shrimp onto heaping mounds of the cheese grits.

Notes

This recipe was provided by a chef, restaurant or culinary professional and may have been scaled down from a bulk recipe. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.

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  • on March 23, 2013

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    Wonderful! My husband enjoyed it yesterday at The Fish House and to my delight- here's the recipe!
    We even took a photo of it because it was such a lovely presentation as well!

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