I'm not a huge seafood lover.  My wife, on the other hand, loves seafood.  Since I'm the one that grills and does all the other outdoor cooking and seafood isn't high on my list, I don't cook it very often.  I did cook the salmon on cedar planks and that was pretty good. And I don't mind shrimp.  So I decided to try a shrimp dish.  This one was super easy, cooked quick, and tasted great.

It seems like when I skim through grilling cookbooks for something to try, so many things ask for a lot of time to strip up and use a marinade, sometimes even letting the meat soak in the marinade overnight.  If you are like me, that doesn't always work, depending on the time I have available.  I skimmed through my cookbooks and found this shrimp recipe that only required 30 minutes soaking up the marinade in the fridge.  You don't generally want any more than that for seafood so that it doesn't get all mushy!

I wasn't sure how many were going to be at home for dinner, so I cut the recipe in half.  I should have just made a full recipe because we had one son home and half the recipe was just enough for him, my wife, and me.

To make Honey Grilled Shrimp, I peeled one pound of medium shrimp.

 

Then I mixed 4 oz of Italian salad dressing, 1/2 cup of honey, and 1/4 tsp of minced garlic.  After you mix it, dump half of the marinade into a bowl or ziplock bag with the shrimp.  Cover the shrimp and cover the remaining marinade and put both in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Start soaking some wood skewers to be used.  I usually just dump out one of the drawer containers that is long enough and soak the skewers in that.  It's the perfect length!

After 30 minutes, go turn the grill on and let it get hot.  While the grill is heating up, go back to the shrimp.  Slide the shrimp onto the bamboo skewers.  I find that using two skewers at a time help to keep what I'm putting on them from turning, so I used a pair of skewers for each set of shrimp.

Put the shrimp skewers on the grill and grill, uncovered over medium heat for about two minutes on each side of the shrimp.

Now baste the shrimp with the rest of the marinade that you saved earlier.  Let me warn you that your grill grates will get quite messy with this honey based sauce.

Grill for several more minutes until the shrimp is pink.  I like to flip the skewers over several timesso that I get a bit of a char on the shrimp.  Each time you turn the shrimp, baste with more marinade.

 

Here is the result!

This recipe got a thumbs up from my discerning wife and son, so it's definitely worth your time to try it out!  Hope you enjoy it.

What's your favorite recipe for grilling shrimp?  Let me know in the comments below.