Spicy Grilled Shrimp and Melon Salad

Recipe Ingredients

15		Dried chiles de arbol (or cayenne chiles)
1 1/2 cups	355ml	Olive oil
1 teaspoon	5ml	Salt
2		Garlic - sliced
1		Cilantro - chopped
		Juice of 1 lime
30		Shrimp (30 to 35) - unpeeled, heads (medium)
		Removed
4 cups	948ml	Watermelon - cantaloupe,
		Honeydew, cut in 1/2" dice
3 tablespoons	45ml	Sugar
1/2 cup	20g / 0.7oz	Mint leaves - finely chopped
		Juice of 1 lime
1 tablespoon	15ml	Rice wine vinegar
3 cups	711ml	Romaine - central rib removed, cut into wide strips

Recipe Instructions

Grind the chiles in a spice mill to form a powder (about 2 tablespoons). In a bowl, mix chile powder with oil, salt, garlic, cilantro, and lime juice. Add shrimp and marinate for 2 to 3 hours at room temperature, or overnight in a refrigerator. Combine melons, sugar, mint, lime juice, and vinegar, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

Prepare a hot grill. Remove shrimp from marinade and reserve marinade.

Grill shrimp for about 3 minutes, and set aside to cool. Toss the romaine with 4 tablespoons of the reserved marinade, and form a bed of greens on each plate. Drain the melons slightly. Peel the shrimp, toss lightly in some of the reserved marinade. Place melons and shrimp on romaine.

Source:
Taste of Home June/July 1996

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