Name: Bacon-Wrapped Blue Cheese Shrimp
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1/4 cup butter, melted -; 1 garlic clove, minced -; 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce -; 16 uncooked shrimp (16-20 per pound), peeled and deveined -; 1/4 teaspoon salt -; 1/8 teaspoon pepper -; 1/4 cup crumbled BelGioioso Blue Cheese -; 16 fresh basil leaves -; 8 bacon strips, halved -; 1/4 cup finely chopped celery -; 1/4 cup crumbled BelGioioso Blue Cheese -; 1 tablespoon minced fresh basil -

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30 min.

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Ingredients for - Bacon-Wrapped Blue Cheese Shrimp

1. 1/4 cup butter, melted -

2. 1 garlic clove, minced -

3. 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce -

4. 16 uncooked shrimp (16-20 per pound), peeled and deveined -

5. 1/4 teaspoon salt -

6. 1/8 teaspoon pepper -

7. 1/4 cup crumbled BelGioioso Blue Cheese -

8. 16 fresh basil leaves -

9. 8 bacon strips, halved -

10. 1/4 cup finely chopped celery -

11. 1/4 cup crumbled BelGioioso Blue Cheese -

12. 1 tablespoon minced fresh basil -

How to cook deliciously - Bacon-Wrapped Blue Cheese Shrimp

1. Stage

Preheat broiler. Combine butter, garlic and pepper sauce. Cut a slit in each shrimp along the inside curve; flatten slightly. Sprinkle shrimp with salt and pepper. Press a cheese cube into slit. Wrap a basil leaf and bacon piece around each shrimp; secure with a toothpick.

2. Stage

Place shrimp on a greased rack of a broiler pan. Broil 6-8 in. from heat until shrimp turn pink and bacon is crisp, 5-6 minutes on each side, basting occasionally with butter mixture.

3. Stage

Arrange shrimp on a serving platter; sprinkle with celery, crumbled blue cheese and basil.