Baby Shower Menu Ideas - Make It Easy With This Tropical Island Seasoned Shrimp Recipe

Here is a tasty Tropical Island Seasoned Shrimp Recipe to give you an idea of an easy recipe you can use when you are thinking about Baby Shower Menu Ideas.

When you are hosting a baby shower it is best to keep the Baby Shower Menu Ideas simple. This way you can relax and enjoy the baby shower with the guests.

For this reason it is good to keep in mind all the labor saving kitchen appliances you have and to use them.

If you are serving a hot meal you can, for instance prepare a soup in a slow cooker such as the Cuisinart PSC 350 3 1 2 Quart Programmable Slow Cooker. Then you can move on and serve a main dish using a recipe you can make in the oven with a Dutch Oven such as the All Clad Dutch Oven and round off the meal with a dessert in the form of a sweet bread made in a Cuisinart CBK 100 Programmable Breadmaker!

If you keep things like this in mind when you are thinking about Baby Shower Menu Ideas you will find organizing the food a whole lot easier.

To give you an idea, here is a Tropical Island Seasoned Shrimp Recipe that you can make in your All Clad Dutch Oven or any other Dutch Oven:

What You Need:

• 1/2 of an onion, sliced thin
• 6 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 t of ginger
• 1 sweet potato, halved lengthwise and sliced into 1/4 in. pieces
• 1 1/2 lbs. shrimp
• 3 bananas cut into 1/4 in. slices
• 1 bell pepper, cored, seeded and cut into thin strips
• 1/2 T of water
• 1 T of sugar
• 1 t red pepper flakes
• 4 T of white vinegar
• 1/2 t salt
• 1/4 t pepper
• 1 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen spinach
• 1 (14 oz.) can diced tomatoes, drained well

How to Make It:

1. Set the oven temperature to 450 degrees and allow the oven to preheat.
2. Coat the inside of your All Clad Dutch Oven with a non stick cooking spray.
3. Scatter the onions and garlic into the bottom of the pot.
4. Sprinkle evenly with the ginger.
5. Place the sweet potato slices over the onions and garlic.
6. Layer the shrimp over the potatoes.
7. Arrange the bananas over the shrimp and slide the bell pepper strips between the banana slices.
8. Place the water into a measuring cup.
9. Add the sugar, red pepper flakes and vinegar.
10. Whisk until the sugar has completely dissolved.
11. Stir in the salt and pepper.
12. Pour half of the seasoned water over the ingredients in the Dutch oven.
13. Layer the spinach into the pan and top the spinach with the tomatoes.
14. Pour the remaining seasoned water over the top.
15. Cover and bake 25 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.

Makes 4 servings

The bananas are what give this dish its tropical taste. Be sure to remove any brown spots from the bananas before slicing them. For a little spice add a chopped Serrano pepper in with the onions and garlic. Because sweet potatoes differ so much in size only use enough to make a single layer over the onions and garlic.

Preparation Time: approximately 15 minutes
Baking Time: approximately 25 minutes
Total Time: approximately 40 minutes

If you are thinking about this recipe as a possibility for Baby Shower Menu Ideas you can serve it as a starter and then the small amount will be enough for all your guests. You can follow this up with a meaty dish you made in your slow cooker. With the meat you only have to serve a salad and fresh bread made in your breadmaker as the shrimp dish has lots of veggies in it.