An Idaho® baked potato meets a New England tradition and delivers on the wow factor with plenty of flavor that’s topped off with pickled red onions.
Ingredients:
Pickled Red Onions
- ½ cup white distilled vinegar
- 3 tablespoons filtered water
- 1 teaspoon cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 medium red onion, halved and sliced
New England Shrimp “Bake”
- 1 medium to large Idaho® Russet potato, unpeeled
- 2 teaspoons avocado oil, divided
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 6 wild-caught red shrimp (size 16/20), peeled and deveined, tail on
- 1 teaspoon Old Bay® seasoning
- 1 3-ounce linguiça sausage link
- 1 ear heirloom corn, husked
- ½ lemon
- 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
- 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt
- Pickled Red Onions, for garnish (see recipe)
- Fresh herbs, for garnish
Directions:
Pickled Red Onions
- In a saucepan, combine vinegar, water, sugar and salt and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Place onion slices in a container and pour pickling liquid over onions.
- Let cool, then refrigerate overnight before using.
New England Shrimp “Bake”
- Clean potato under cold running water and pat dry. Cover potato with 1 teaspoon avocado oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Smoke potato over hickory wood chips for 15 minutes, then wrap in aluminum foil and finish on the grill at 400°F until tender, about 1 hour. Set aside and keep warm.
- In a large bowl, toss shrimp with remaining 1 teaspoon avocado oil and Old Bay seasoning.
- On the 400°F grill, place link of linguiça, ear of corn and shrimp. Grill linguiça for 10 minutes, corn for 8 minutes and shrimp for 4 minutes, turning as necessary. Grill the lemon half, cut side down, until charred.
- Cut linguiça into slices and cut corn off the cob. In a small bowl, mix chopped parsley with Greek yogurt.
- To assemble: Split potato open lengthwise and hollow out a trench in the potato. Spread parsley-yogurt mixture on the inside. Fill trench with shrimp, corn and linguiça, then garnish with pickled red onion and fresh herbs. Serve with grilled lemon half.