Mint! Beautiful, fresh, aromatic mint. Take a stalk or two and rub it between your palms until it is slightly crushed. This will both release the oils in the mint and also make your hands smell glorious. Now drop the crushed mint onto one of your seafood piles, grab another couple of pieces and repeat until every packet has some mint on top.
Now comes the fun part. Gather up the edges of the packets and seal them up nice and tight. Now crank up your grill to high and when it is hot hot hot, carefully place the packets on the grill and close the lid. Eight to ten minutes later (eight if your shrimp and scallops are on the smaller side, ten if they are the biggest kind) grab your tongs and take them off. Working really carefully, open up those packets. I like to do this with a set of tongs in each hand, just to keep a respectful distance from the steam inside. When your packets are open, you’ll see that not only is your seafood steamed perfectly, there is a lovely pool of seafood juices at the bottom.
Now the only thing you have left to do is pour each one of those packets, juice and all, onto plates of hot rice or pasta (we like brown rice, ourselves). Don’t be tempted to leave the juice out…it’s what makes this dish so rich and wonderful! You can leave the mint stalks in there…I usually take them out just because it looks nicer, but that’s up to you. Drizzle about a tablespoon of good olive oil over each serving, scatter a little fresh chopped mint on top, give everything another grind of fresh pepper, give everyone a few lemon slices to squeeze over the top of their dinners, light some citronella candles and eat this one outside. Happy, happy supper!
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I’ve done this with parchment paper and my oven but I’m thinking the smoky flavor from the grill would make your version way way better!
I love pretty much anything better when you make it on the grill!
Yum! What a fund dish. I love to grill. Thank you for the recipe.
I pretty much keep my grill going all summer long!
If i chose to do this in the oven what temperature and time would you suggest??
I have to say I’ve never tried it in the oven, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t work – I’d do 10 minutes at 450. Let me know how it comes out!