Cheese Grits Ingredients:
4 cups chicken stock
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup stone ground white grits
3 Tbls. cream cheese
2 Tbls. shredded pepper jack cheese
2 Tbls. butter
2 Tbls. sliced green onions
Salt & pepper to taste
Shrimp Ingredients:
1 lb Shrimp peeled & deveined
2 Tbls. each of red & white onions – diced
2 Tbls. each of green & red peppers – diced
1 cup andouille sausage sliced
3 Tbls. white wine
1 Tbls. vegetable oil
1 tsp. sriracha (oriental hot garlic sauce)
1 Tbls. cold butter
Cheese Grits Procedure:
Bring chicken stock & cream to boil. Add grits. Cook until creamy and done 30 – 40 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes or so. Remove from burner. Add cream cheese, pepper jack cheese and butter. Stir until smooth. Add green onion, salt & pepper. Keep warm while preparing shrimp.
Shrimp Procedure:
In a hot sauté pan, add 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; then, add sausage, red & white onion, red & green peppers and sauté 2 min. Add shrimp. Sauté 2 min. Add white wine & sriracha sauce. Cook until shrimp are done. Add one tablespoon cold butter & stir. Serve over cheese grits. Garnish with green onions.
Award: Taste of the Beach 2010 People's Choice Winner
Recipe Author: Adrian Hoy
Chef's Background: Self-taught chef
Original Photograph By: Adrian Hoy/Sugar Creek Restaurant/obxtasteofthebeach.com
Photograph Retouched By: Recipe Spy
Restaurant: Sugar Creek Restaurant, 7340 S Virginia Dare Trail Nags Head, NC
Source: http://www.obxtasteofthebeach.com/documents/Program-2011-forweb.pdf