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Recipe of the Week features simple, practical recipes accented with a top chef's personal touch. This week, Eben Leonard of Bonfire shares his recipe for Grilled Shrimp BLT Tacos.

Grilled Shrimp BLT Tacos (8 Servings)
By Eben Leonard

 
Ingredients
  16 -

12 inch flour tortillas

  64 - shrimp (15-21 count), peeled and deveined
  0.25 pound bacon, diced
  8 - tomatoes, diced
  8 - jalapeños, diced
  32 - leaves Boston Bibb lettuce, chiffonade
  1 cup cream
 

0.25

cup olive oil
  0.5 - lemon
  1 - rosemary branch
  3 - cloves garlic, sliced
   
Preparation
 

 

  1

Marinate shrimp overnight in rosemary, garlic and half of the olive oil.

  2

Preheat grill.

  3

Render bacon in a pan until slightly crisp, add cream and reduce by half.

  4 While bacon is hot, puree bacon and cream mixture in a blender and set aside. Make sure to keep it warm.
  5 Take the two flour tortillas and place them on one another.
  6 Trim the edges of the tortillas to make a square.  Cut the squares in quarters making eight smaller squares.
  7

Grill marinated shrimp until just cooked through. Set aside.

  8

Slightly warm the tortilla squares on the grill.

  9 Place 1 tablespoon of the bacon cream on each tortilla square.  Then add the shrimp.
  10

 Toss the tomatoes, jalapeños, remaining olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon together and place that on the shrimp.

  11 Garnish each taco with the bibb lettuce.