Ameir’s Shrimp Sushi Bites
Isn’t it cute?
Yes, you read correctly. This quick and easy appetizer was my husband’s idea. The man who lived on Ramen noodles for years. He can’t cook, but he knows what’s good to eat…..at least now.
We invited some friends over for tea yesterday and I was asking him what I could do with shrimp as a quick little bite. I said that usually people wrapped shrimp in bacon and grilled it, but we weren’t going to use pork, obviously. So I said - what about wrapping it in zuchinni or something?
“Ooh…ooh..” he said. “What about making it like sushi and putting pickled ginger and wasabi on it.” Wow. I was impressed.
So here we go - an incredibly easy appetizer that looks beautiful and tastes great.
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Ameir’s Shrimp Sushi Bites
1 cucumber
pickled ginger
wasabi paste
1 clove garlic
olive oil
shrimp, peeled and deveined
1. Smash the garlic clove or cut it into chunks and simmer it with about a quarter cup of olive oil. Let it simmer for a little while so that the garlic flavor comes out into the oil. Once the oil is cool, dip the shrimp into it. (You could just skip this step and put garlic powder on the shrimp. I think you could also marinate them in some soy sauce if you wanted to.)
2. Grill the shrimp a minute or so on each side until they’re bright pink. Drain on paper towel while you do the rest.
3. Slice the cucumber into rounds.
4. Put a few pieces of pickled ginger onto the cucumber.
5. Put a shrimp on top.
6. Put a dot of wasabi paste into the little spot in the center where the shrimp is curled up
7. Eat! Sprinkle with toasted seseme seeds if you have any and serve with extra wasabi, or even some reduced soy sauce drizzled on top.