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Barbecued Lime Shrimp and Corn

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Barbecued Lime Shrimp and Corn
Photography: Becky Luigart-Stayner; Styling: Lydia DeGaris-Pursell
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Good, Solid Recipe

With virtually no cleanup, cooking a meal in foil over the fire is simple. Buy premade foil oven bags, or fashion your own from heavy-duty aluminum foil. Then toss the bag directly on the coals. If you skip the couscous, soak up the juices with French bread.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 5 ounces shrimp, 2 pieces corn, and 1 cup couscous)

Ingredients

  • 1/3  cup  fresh lime juice
  • 1/4  cup  fresh orange juice
  • 2  tablespoons  low-sodium soy sauce
  • 2  tablespoons  honey
  • 2  garlic cloves, minced
  • 2  teaspoons  grated peeled fresh ginger
  • 2  tablespoons  sugar
  • 1  teaspoon  ground coriander seeds
  • 1/4  teaspoon  black pepper
  • 2  ears corn, each cut crosswise into 4 pieces
  • 1 1/2  pounds  large shrimp, peeled and deveined
  • 4  cups  cooked couscous

Preparation

At home, combine the first 9 ingredients in a heavy-duty, zip-top plastic bag, and seal. Place the corn, shrimp, and couscous in separate heavy-duty zip-top plastic bags, and seal bags. Place the shrimp in cooler.

At campsite, place lime mixture, corn, and shrimp in foil oven bag. Place directly on hot coals (or in a 450° oven if at home); cook 10 minutes. Serve over couscous.

Nutritional Information

Calories:
473 (7% from fat)
Fat:
3.9g (sat 0.7g,mono 0.6g,poly 1.5g)
Protein:
42.8g
Carbohydrate:
66.7g
Fiber:
4g
Cholesterol:
259mg
Iron:
5.3mg
Sodium:
534mg
Calcium:
115mg
Corinne Humphrey, Cooking Light, OCTOBER 2003

Member Ratings and Reviews

5 stars

A delicious, ingenious combination of fresh summer foods. The shrimp has to be Gulf shrimp, not imported farm raised!08/07/09

5 stars
Robin
Too sweet, and boring flavor. I prefer my seafood a little salty and with a bit of a kick. The cooking time had to be doubled because I kept the shrimp frozen until I used it and the corn wasn't quite done.07/05/08