Green tomatoes are artlessly blooming red tomatoes -- appropriately their lower amoroso agreeable and hardly acerb taste. Charring makes them softer and easier to peel. To barbecue the shrimp use 8-inch board skewers, which you'll acquisition in some supermarkets and accouterments stores.
Prep: 45 minutes
Total: 1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients
Serves 4
* 2 garlic cloves, minced
* 1 1/2 tablespoons grated bald amber (2-inch piece)
* 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, additional added for grill
* 20 extra-large shrimp (about 1 pound), peeled, deveined, cape larboard on
* 4 accomplished asset tomatoes, bisected lengthwise
* 2 average blooming tomatoes, bisected lengthwise
* Coarse alkali and afresh arena atramentous pepper
* 2 tablespoons beginning adhesive abstract (1 lime)
* 1 tablespoon minced beginning jalapeno pepper (with seeds)
* 1 teaspoon sugar
* 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
* 1 tablespoon chopped basil
Directions
1. Soak 20 skewers in a pan of baptize for 30 minutes.
2. In a average bowl, activity calm garlic and ginger. Transfer bisected of the admixture to a ample basin and activity in 2 tablespoons oil. Add the shrimp, bung until analogously coated, and again awning and air-condition for 30 minutes. Awning actual garlic-ginger admixture and refrigerate.
3. Heat barbecue to hot; agilely oil grates. In a average basin bung asset and blooming tomatoes with actual tablespoon oil; division with alkali and pepper. Barbecue tomatoes, cut ancillary up, until banknote are broiled and beef is tender, 4 to 6 account for the asset tomatoes, 8 to 10 account for the blooming tomatoes (if the blooming tomatoes are actual hard, this may booty longer). Be accurate as you grill, as the abstract from the tomatoes and the oil on their apparent may account flare-ups.
4. When tomatoes are air-conditioned abundant to handle, abolish and abandon banknote and seeds. Finely chop beef and add to basin with aloof garlic-ginger mixture. Add adhesive juice, jalapeno, sugar, cilantro, and basil.
5. Division shrimp with alkali and pepper. Thread shrimp, lengthwise, assimilate able skewers (going through appendage and top of shrimp), one shrimp per skewer. Barbecue until shrimp are blurred throughout, about 2 account per side.
6. To serve, abode skewered shrimp on a basin with a basin of the relish.
