This is my favorite sort of dinner to make because it’s a complete dinner made all at once. Your protein, vegetable and side dish is all in one foil packet! You can assemble it all, throw it on the grill and you don’t have to do anything else except open a bottle of wine. It’s so easy!
This recipe comes from first-time cookbook author Cyndi Kane: Save-It-Forward Suppers- A Simple Strategy to Save Time, Money and Sanity. I really love this book to use for meal planning. Honestly, I really hate to come up with 7 different dinner ideas for the week. This book shows you how you can make more than one meal out of one main recipe. For example, bake a ham. Then make a soup out of it. Then make beans and cornbread. That’s three meals to make out of that ham! There are 15 weekly menus in the book and 100 recipes. Instead of traditional photography, an illustrator drew the pictures for the recipes. It’s a fun, unique idea for a book. I recommend!
Here are a few recipes I’d like to try from the book:
Scalloped Potato Soup Thai Basil Chicken Breakfast for Dinner Burritos Chicken Milanese Cajun Chowder Marinated Corn and Artichoke Dip Salmon Patties Asian Flank Steak
Ingredients needed:
Yukon Gold potatoes small yellow onions smoked sausage fresh corn fresh or thawed frozen shrimp cajun seasoning garlic powder bottle of beer (or chicken broth) large-sized, heavy-duty aluminum foil
How to make Grilled Shrimp Packets:
The full, printable recipe is at the end of this post.
Can you make foil packets in the oven?
If you are making these as the starter recipe in the Save if Forward Suppers cookbook, you will have 4 servings and then you will use the extra 2 packets as ingredients to help you make the recipes for Cajun chowder and Shakshuka. There is also a recipe in the book for how to make shrimp broth with the shrimp shells.
Shrimp Recipes:
Grilled Jumbo Shrimp Drizzled with Lemon Chipotle Butter Hawaiian Garlic Shrimp Grilled Marinated Shrimp Honey Garlic Bacon Wrapped Shrimp Grilled Cilantro Lime Shrimp
