Betty Crocker's Heart Healthy Cookbook shares a recipe! Serve tangy shrimp and turkey bacon in a new way. Grilled kabobs flavored with barbecue sauce and apricot – perfect for a Middle Eastern dinner!
Sweet Apricot BBQ Shrimp Kabobs
- Prep Time 40 min
- Total 50 min
- Servings 4
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup hickory-smoked barbecue sauce
- 1/3 cup apricot preserves
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 4 slices turkey bacon, each cut lengthwise into 6 strips
- 1 can (8 ounces) whole water chestnuts, drained
- 1 pound uncooked peeled deveined large shrimp, thawed if frozen
- 2 cups hot cooked couscous, pasta or rice
Instructions
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Step1Soak four 10-inch bamboo skewers in water for at least 30 minutes to prevent burning.
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Step2Set oven control to broil. Mix barbecue sauce, preserves and red pepper in small bowl; set aside.
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Step3Wrap strip of bacon around each water chestnut. Thread shrimp and water chestnuts alternately on each bamboo skewer, leaving space between each piece. Place on rack in broiler pan.
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Step4Broil kabobs with tops about 4 inches from heat 6 minutes, brushing frequently with sauce mixture. Turn kabobs; brush with sauce mixture. Broil 5 to 6 minutes longer or until shrimp are pink and firm. Discard any remaining sauce mixture. Serve kabobs with couscous.
Nutrition
340
Calories
3 1/2g
Total Fat
23g
Protein
54g
Total Carbohydrate
19g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 340
- Calories from Fat
- 30
- Total Fat
- 3 1/2g
- 6%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 5%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 170mg
- 56%
- Sodium
- 600mg
- 25%
- Potassium
- 380mg
- 11%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 54g
- 18%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 12%
- Sugars
- 19g
- Protein
- 23g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 6%
- 6%
- Vitamin C
- 8%
- 8%
- Calcium
- 6%
- 6%
- Iron
- 20%
- 20%
Exchanges:
2 1/2 Starch; 1 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 2 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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