Recipe: Fresh Seaside Shrimp with Peppers

Fresh caught that day in the Sea of Cortez, cooked on the beach with a red, fading sunset to the west over the Baja Peninsula - can you taste it?
Being easy to cook and being a healthy alternative to beef, shrimp win in our camp lately.  When we head to Mexico, we like to stick to seafood partly because it's healthier, partly because it's plentiful and fresh, and mostly because there's a slim chance of Montezuma's Revenge.

Cooking your own shrimp fiesta feast on the beach compares to few other experiences on Planet Earth.  Here's a pretty tasty recipe for you to try, no matter where you are:

Ingredients

• 1 lbs de-veined shrimp
• 1 green bell pepper
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 yellow bell pepper
• 1/2 of a red onion
• 1 tbsp of 7 Bar Grille Swamp Stompin' Bayou Spice
• Your choice of side dish - rice, potatoes, etc.

Directions

7 Bar Grille? Get it? The grill of a Jeep is standard: 7 bars. These tasty spices were hand crafted by Chef Mark Denittis, certified Jeep nut and professional chef from Colorado. We use his Swamp Stompin Bayou Spice for this recipe

1. Chop bell pepper and onions into 1" squares
2. Boil, sauté, or grill the shrimp however you please with the spice from 7 Bar Grille (at right)
3. Mix vegetables and shrimp, serve on a plate with any side dish you choose - pictured is Idahoan Southwest Flavored Mashed Potatoes, which are another super-easy camp food

See how easy that was?

Short Cuts and Alternatives

• Cooking shrimp can be done a number of ways and they're all easy because shrimp doesn't require much.  We like a pseudo sauté method in which we wrap the shrimp in one big foil pouch, add a little water, close it up, and cook them either over a mild bed of coals in the campfire or on the grill of the camp stove.  You could also just boil a pot of water and toss them in.  Always add a little 7 Bar Grille Spice.
• Mix up the variety of veggies: use cucumber, or squash, or perhaps get some fruit if you're daring.  Pineapple.  Whatever.
• Buy 7 Bar Grille spices from www.rompalicious.com
• The 7 Bar Grille Bayou Spice brings a little punch, not much, but it's there.  If spicy is not your style, go for a little garlic salt perhaps

Nutrition Facts for Shrimp, Crustaceans, Cooked On Moist Heat

While shrimp are fairly healthy, you should know that they are high in cholesterol.  However, they totally lack saturated fat - which your doctor will approve of.  And they're high in Niacin, Zinc, Phosphorous, Iron, and high in Vitamin B12 as well as protein.