How to Make THE BEST Stone-Ground Grits at Home + Shrimp 'n Grits!

cheddar cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: processed cheese

Nutritional yeast adds a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

bacon

🥗Healthier: turkey bacon

💰Cheaper: smoked sausage

Turkey bacon is leaner, while smoked sausage is often less expensive.

Introduce the concept of making stone ground grits and shrimp and grits.

Explain the importance of using a stone grind mill for making grits.

Show the Neutrial Harvest grain mill and explain its coarser setting for grinding corn.

Discuss the type of corn to use, emphasizing dent corn over flint corn.

Mention the need to sift the ground corn twice to separate grits from corn flour.

Demonstrate grinding the corn in the grain mill, yielding about 2.5 cups of grits.

Explain the importance of storing grits and corn flour in the freezer for later use.

Prepare the shrimp and grits recipe by cooking the grits according to the traditional method.

Sauté garlic in butter until fragrant, then add shrimp, season with paprika, cayenne, salt, and pepper, and cook until shrimp are pink.

Stir in lemon juice and chopped parsley, then remove from heat.

Mix cooked grits with butter and cheddar cheese until creamy and melted.

Serve the grits topped with the shrimp mixture, garnished with crumbled bacon, green onions, and hot sauce.

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