Grilled shrimp with apple ketchup

Name: Grilled shrimp with apple ketchup
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 1½ pounds medium-to-large shrimp; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tablespoons butter; 2 tablespoons ketchup; 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar; 1 large tomato, peeled, seeded, and diced; 1 Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and diced; Tabasco sauce to taste (optional); 2 tablespoons chopped parsley; ½ lemon, segmented as you would a grapefruit, seeded, and chopped

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

Simple to Spectacular

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

About

The added flavor here comes from the sauce, a Jean-Georges classic that can be made in the time it takes the grill to preheat. It’s crunchy and unusual, and, with the addition of Tabasco, can be made quite hot.

Ingredients

1½ pounds medium-to-large shrimp
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
¼ cup extra-v

Fish course
Pescatarian
Spicy

Method

If you want to skewer the shrimp, soak 8 wooden skewers in water for at least 30 minutes before beginning (or use metal skewers). Start a charcoal or gas grill or preheat the broiler; the fire should be hot and the rack 2 to 4 inches from the heat source.
Peel the shrimp and devein them. Sprinkle them with salt and pepper and toss them on a plate with the olive