Alambre de Camarones

Cooking Instructions

In a mortar with pestle crush to a paste garlic cloves with oregano black pepper and salt

Add lime juice Worcestershire sauce and olive oil

Place shrimp in a bowl and mix well with marinade let sit for 10 minutes while preparing the rest of the ingredients

Make the skewers:

Clean the 2 first outer layers of the onion and cut in 16 half moon shaped

Cut tomato in half scoop out all the seeds and cut in 12 half moon shaped pieces

Start skewering with a Serrano pepper follow with a piece of onion and a piece of tomato one shrimp and keep alternating the ingredients until you have 6 shrimp on the skewer and have finished with a Serrano pepper (see picture for suggested technique)

Season the skewers with a bit more salt and proceed to grill them

Heat a cast iron skillet grill or any other griddle available to medium high heat and cook the shrimp skewers for 2 minutes on each side

Serve with pico de gallo or the salsa of your preference

For garnish you can serve white rice black beans or a salad of mixed field greens with a pomegranate dressing.