Grit Cakes
4,315 views · Published 6 November 2013 · 2:27 · Indexed 28 October 2026
Channel: Home Made Simple · 2013 · Howto & Style
Jesse: I'm Chef Jesse Brune and I'm gonna show you how to make spicy shrimp on mini grit cakes... So, true or false: Your dad loves shrimp. Aliyah: Yes! Aliyah and Nikole: True! Jesse: True, great! Uh, I came up with the great idea, so we can share the shrimp with all. We're gonna make these things called "Grits Cakes." They're gonna be these little tiny cakes of grits that we're going to put little shrimp on and they're gonna be like one bite, amazing, shrimp spectacular. Aliyah: That sounds cool. Jesse: Cool? Are you excited? Aliyah and Nikole: Yes! Jesse: Are you ready to rock this? Aliyah and Nikole: Yes! Jesse: Let's make some grits. Aliyah: Okay. Jesse: We make a savory, cheesy grits by cooking the grits down with chicken stock, adding seasoning and cheese, plus an egg... Now, you poured the egg in, so I'm turning the stove off. We do that so the egg won't cook instantly when we pour it in—and we won't have scrambled eggs in there. Instead, what the egg is gona do is help bind it all. After it's cooked, we spread the grits out on a cookie sheet. You put it in the fridge for about an hour... Now, we're gonna working with the shrimp and you see that they're in the shell still, okay? An easy way that I do it is you pull the tail off— Aliyah: Okay... Jesse: ...and you just open it up... After we shell it, we put the shrimp in an oven-safe dish, with a little olive oil, some salt and pepper and we found some great Cajun seasoning in Dane's cabinet, so we tossed that in there and we put that in the oven for about twelve minutes at three-fifty... Look at that! Aliyah: It looks great! Jesse: That is some gritty, grits, gorgeousness... Now we have to get them into the little bite-sized spheres, right? So, what we're gonna, we're just gonna go right into it, let's see how many we can get... There you go... So, you don't have to have a cookie cutter---just look for something that has the right shape that you're looking for. And we actually fry them up and they create these great, little, savory crackers. Let's get to the shrimp. So, we take one of those little grit cakes, one of these shrimp— Aliyah: Mhm... Jesse: Put it right on top of each other. How great is that? Aliyah: It looks so cute! Nikole: That looks delicious! Jesse: Very cute, right? So, let's make them all up. Aliyah: Okay. Jesse: Here comes the big test... Aliyah: It's too much flavor just to put into words... Jesse: Goodness gracious! Nikole: It's ridonkulous. Jesse: Isn't it ridonkulous? Your dad's gonna love this, right?
