Ree Drummond has the right summer time appetizer that’s crisp and scrumptious — a spin on nachos utilizing shrimp and different recent flavors. The Pioneer Girl star gave a basic snack a elegant improve and, better of all, it couldn’t be a better recipe to make.
Ree Drummond makes a simple citrus shrimp nachos appetizer
Drummond made her straightforward summer time appetizer throughout an episode of The Pioneer Girl devoted to a menu she made for a gathering along with her buddies. “Every once in a while it’s fun just to get together with girlfriends, relax, have some good food, and have a great time,” she stated.
Drummond deliberate a menu of small bites to serve her girlfriends. She began with citrus shrimp nachos. “These are nothing like regular Tex Mex nachos — they’re cool and crisp and flavorful and I love them,” she shared.
The Meals Community host chopped cooked shrimp into small items. “I just want to make sure all the pieces of shrimp are small enough to fit on a nacho chip,” she defined.
Drummond positioned the shrimp in a bowl and made a simple marinade to “make it super flavorful for the nachos.”
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‘The Pioneer Woman’ star made a scrumptious mango combination and marinade
Drummond mixed diced jicama, diced mango, sliced inexperienced onion, jarred pimento, cilantro leaves, and the shrimp in a bowl.
For the marinade, she mixed olive oil, honey, orange juice, lime juice, salt, pepper, and inexperienced sizzling sauce in a mason jar and shook it to mix the substances.
“It’s really fun to have girls over because you can have a little bit more fun with the food than you could if you had, for instance, cowboys over,” Drummond stated. “I don’t know why cowboys are so limited in the food that they like.”
She poured a few of the marinade over the substances, tossed every little thing collectively, coated the bowl, and refrigerated the combination for one hour.
“It’s so pretty! The pink shrimp and the red peppers and the cilantro, the mango — I love colorful food,” Drummond stated. “Which is why I like to step away from cowboy food every once in a while.”
She joked, “Cowboy food is brown, hot — and plenty of it.”
The Pioneer Girl star added, “This would make a great shrimp salad on its own. But on top of tortilla chips, forget about it. Delicious.”
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Drummond assembled her straightforward appetizer
To assemble the citrus shrimp nachos, Drummond used spherical tortilla chips as the bottom, declaring the way it’s essential to decide on sturdy chips. “They’re pretty substantial,” she famous. “You don’t want to get a super thin chip.”
The Meals Community host put a spoonful of the shrimp combination on prime of every chip and added a sprinkle of cotija cheese crumbles. She added a cilantro leaf to every and positioned the completed chips on a platter.
“So, so pretty,” she stated. “You can never make enough of these nachos.”
The complete recipe is accessible on the Food Network web site.