Shrimp cooked with garlic and onion are served over garlic cheese grits. This is a dish for garlic lovers. Serve with garlic bread, or your preference of bread.
Ingredients
- chicken broth: 2 cups
- milk: 1 cup
- garlic: 1 tsp (minced)
- quick-cooking grits: 1 cup
- ounces shredded Cheddar cheese: 6 piece
- salt and ground black pepper: (to taste)
- butter: 1 Tbsp
- olive oil: 1 Tbsp
- onion: 1 piece (chopped)
- garlic: 2 tsp (minced)
- uncooked shrimp: 1 pound (peeled and deveined)
- dash hot pepper sauce: 1 piece (to taste)
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Stages of cooking
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Bring chicken broth, milk, and 1 teaspoon garlic to a boil in a saucepan. Stir in grits, reduce heat to low, and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes.
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Remove from heat and thoroughly mix in Cheddar cheese; season with salt and black pepper. Set grits aside and keep warm.
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Heat butter and olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and 2 teaspoons garlic until softened and beginning to brown, about 5 minutes.
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Stir shrimp into onion mixture and cook until shrimp are pink and no longer translucent in the center, about 5 more minutes. Stir in hot pepper sauce.
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Serve grits in a large serving bowl topped with shrimp mixture.
