The Pick and Roll BBQ shrimp Peroigi, #FrozenChefMadness

Last week I wrote about the #FrozenChefMadness challenge.  It’s a chance for you; yes you, to win $800, $250, $150 or $100 for creating an original dish using items from the frozen foods section.   For my dish I pondered the situation of people who love BBQ shrimp, but want it in an enclosed sandwich form with tater tots on the outside.   It can’t be done you say?  Read on and taste the March Madness.

Ingredients needed:

Gorton’s Shrimp Scampi

Ore Ida Tater Tots

Zatarain’s Dirty Rice Mix

Jimmy Dean Cooked Sausage

The things that you would include in your BBQ mix:  Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, garlic, onions, hot sauce, etc.

The BBQ Shrimp

1. Remove the Gorton’s Shrimp Scampi from the box and cook it on the stove, adding your favorite BBQ ingredients.
2. Once it’s finished cooking remove it from heat.

1. With a sharp knife, cut the shrimp into small pieces, about 1/8”.
2. Put the shrimp on a side plate.

The Jimmy Dean Cooked Sausage

1. Cook the sausage on the stove top.
2. Once it’s cooked, remove the sausage and chop it up into small pieces using your hand chopper that ace TV salesman Vince sold you.  You know you have one; it works fine, get out the chopper and get the sausage into tiny pieces.
3. Put the sausage on a small plate.

Zatarain’s Dirty Rice

1.  Cook the Zatarain’s according to the directions on the box.
2. While it’s cooking, mix in the shrimp and sausage.
3. Once the Zatarain’s is finished, keep it in the pan, but remove it from heat.

The Ore Ida Tater Tots

1. Put half of a big bag of Tater Tots in a large sauce pan on the stove.
2. Cook on medium and add a little bit of water.

1. Stir gently and the Tater Tots will dissolve into one big, mushy tot.
2. In the same pan, mix in two or three tablespoons of sour cream and a couple tablespoons of flour.

To combine everything

1. Coat a flat baking sheet with olive oil
2. Put the Tater Tot mixture on the sheet and flatten.
3. Cut out two flat areas, one of which is big enough for a dollop of the Zatarian’s mixture.
4. Put the mixture on one of the Tater Tot areas and then put the other one on top of it.
5. Squeeze together.

1. Repeat.
2. Mix up the sizes if you want to.
3. Once you’ve used all of the Tater Tot mixture put them in the oven for 8 minutes at 400, turning them over half way through.
4. Enjoy.  Relish, watch some March Madness and amaze your friends with your culinary creativity.

The entire recipe takes about 30 minutes to make and is really simple.

You can enter #FrozenChefMadness too.  The prizes are real and the delicious things that you create will be really amazing too.

We were compensated for producing this for the contest.  Having said that, it’s delicious, really.