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Jalapeño Shrimp Tostones

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https://www.chat-quiberon.com/2024/01/18/m5j8tymo3q5 If you are looking for a quick, easy appetizer, you can’t get much easier than cream cheese, shrimp, pickled jalapeños and some cilantro.  Throw in a crisp plantain chip (or cracker) and a drizzle of chimichiri sauce (or not) and you have a delicious, spicy treat to serve at your next party. When I use to make these I used only the cracker, shrimp topped with the ruffle of jalapeño cream cheese mixture and a cilantro leaf for a garnish (see pic below). So you do not have to make the chimichurri or the tostones if you don’t want to.

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The garlic, onion, cilantro and parsley goes into the blender and gets chopped until very small pieces.

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After removing the chopped up greens from the blender, stir in the oil, lime juice and vinegar. Then season with the salt and pepper.

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Fry the plantain slices for 3 minutes on each side or until barely golden.

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Refry a second time until golden brown, drain on paper towels and sprinkle with salt.

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https://manabernardes.com/2024/5c4nv36olmt Put your jalapeño cream cheese mixture into a pastry bag (or zip-lock) and put a large open star tip on. Pipe some mixture down and around the shrimp.

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So you can do the shrimp with cheese in advance and refrigerate and at last minute plop it on top of cracker of your choice or you can make the chimichurri sauce and to stones and go that route.

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Jalapeño Shrimp Tostones 

Ingredients

  • large size shrimp boiled and chilled
  • 1-2 plantains
  • 1- 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese
  • 2 Tbsp. pickled jalapeños chopped (seeds removed)
  • 4 Tbsp. cilantro some cilantro leaves for garnish
  • oil for frying the plantains
  • chimichurri make or buy (see recipe below)

Instructions

  1. Boil the shrimp with your favorite seasonings, peel and chill. If using large shrimp I always slice in half and it still looks like you have a whole shrimp on the cracker.
  2. In a food processor or mini processor mix the cream cheese, pickled jalapeño peppers and the cilantro until well blended and you only have very small pieces of the cilantro and jalapeños. You want to be about to squeeze this through a decorators tip.
  3. Take a shrimp and squeeze a "ruffle" of the cream cheese mixture around the back side for the shrimp. Put the shrimp on the plantain chip (or cracker) and drizzle with some of the chimachurri. Garnish with a cilantro leaf if not using the chimichurri.

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Chimichurri Sauce

Ingredients

  • 1 c. fresh parsley firmly packed
  • 1 c. cilantro firmly packed
  • 3-6 cloves garlic
  • 2 Tbsp. onion
  • 2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
  • 1/2 c. olive oil
  • 1 Tbsp. lime juice
  • Kosher salt
  • black pepper or red pepper flakes to taste

Instructions

  1. Put the garlic and onion in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Add in the parsley and cilantro and pulse a few times until finely chopped
  2. Put this mixture in a bowl and stir in the vinegar, lime juice and olive oil. Stir until mixed.
  3. Store in refrigerator until ready to serve.
  4. This is great served with steaks on top of fish, tacos or use your imagination.

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