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Buffalo Grilled Shrimp With Blue Cheese Dip and Celery

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Buffalo Grilled Shrimp on a plate with celery and blue cheese dip on the side.
Buffalo Grilled Shrimp with Blue Cheese Dip and CeleryJohn Kernick

Hot-wing aficionados will flip for these grilled shrimp, seasoned with bottled hot sauce and melted butter. Crunchy celery and homemade blue cheese dip are deliciously de rigueur accompaniments.

Cooks' note:

Shrimp can be cooked in an oiled hot 2-burner grill pan over medium heat.

Recipe information

  • Total Time

    40 min

  • Yield

    Makes 6 (hors d’oeuvre) servings

Ingredients

For blue cheese dip:

1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup finely chopped scallions
2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese (2 ounces)
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 teaspoon milk

For shrimp:

18 jumbo shrimp (1 1/2 to 2 pounds), peeled, leaving last shell segment and tail fan attached, then deveined
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 stick unsalted butter, melted
1/4 cup hot sauce such as Frank's RedHot
1/2 bunch celery, cut into 4-inch sticks

Preparation

  1. Make dip:

    Step 1

    Stir together ingredients, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.

  2. Make shrimp:

    Step 2

    Prepare grill for direct-heat cooking over medium-hot charcoal (medium heat for gas); see Grilling Procedure . Toss shrimp with oil and 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper. Oil grill rack, then grill shrimp, covered only if using a gas grill, turning once, until just cooked through, 7 to 8 minutes total. Stir together butter and hot sauce in a large bowl. Add shrimp and toss until coated. Serve shrimp with dip and celery.

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