Bacon Shrimp Toasts Recipe
This Bacon Shrimp Toasts Recipe is topped with a cream cheese mixture, shrimp and bacon, a sprinkle of parsley, and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Happy National Bacon Day! What’s your favorite bacon recipe? What was your favorite childhood tradition eating bacon? I have so many, but what comes to mind is all the bacon that we’d eat when camping, and weekend breakfasts! Our family loved bacon! Bacon is so delish on appetizers, too.
Bacon Shrimp Toasts Recipe
So this Bacon Shrimp Toasts Recipe is perfect for New Year’s Eve or the new year! For this weekend, you may want to try this Honey Pepper Bacon Recipe or this Chocolate-Dipped Bacon Recipe! Also, check out my Chocolate Fondue Board over at Camille Styles!
Ingredients for Bacon Shrimp Toasts Recipe
- Bacon
- Garlic
- Rosemary
- Shrimp
- Parsley
- Lemon
- Toasts (below)
How to make the toasts? All you need are these ingredients:
- Butter
- Baguette bread
- Cream cheese
- Dijon mustard
- Camembert cheese (or Brie, or another creamy blue variety)
- Salt and pepper
Shrimp just goes with the holidays! Growing up, we celebrated on New Year’s Day with New Year’s cookies. that my dad would make. A great tradition.
What is shrimp toast?
The original shrimp toast is a Chinese dim sum dish served on bread with a minced shrimp filling.
Of course for this homemade Bacon Shrimp Toast, we added bacon, because everything is better with bacon.
How do you make shrimp toast?
- Making shrimp toast is really pretty easy to do. The trick is to fry the toast lightly and not burn it. Even though I love the flavor of “burnt” toast (am I the only one?), be careful when toasting the bread.
- In a large pan, melt the butter and then add the bread to the pan. Toast until golden. Once browned, flip the bread and melt more butter into the pan, moving the bread slightly to absorb the butter. Toast more. Once done, transfer to a plate and set aside.
- As the bread is toasting in the butter, mix together the cream cheese, mustard, Camembert cheese, and salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
- Cook the bacon. Add the garlic and rosemary into the bacon grease; salt lightly.
- Finally, add the shrimp, and season with salt and pepper; cook until just pink and firmed—remove from the burner and allow the residual heat of the pan to finish cooking the shrimp.
- Spread the cheese onto the toasts. Top with the shrimp and bacon, a sprinkle of parsley, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Serve warm.
Happy New Year’s coming up this week!
Here are a few more delicious festive appetizers you may want to try:
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Bacon Shrimp Toasts Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 strips thin cut bacon, cut into 1/2’’-3/4’’ pieces
- 3 medium cloves garlic, microplaned or crushed
- 1 Tbsp rosemary, minced
- 12 medium shrimp, raw, deveined, roughly chopped (about 1/2’’ pieces)
- 2 Tbsp chopped parsley
- Lemon to serve
Toasts and Cheese Spread
- 5-6 Tbsp butter
- 10 slices baguette bread, 1 3/4’’-2’’ thick, cut at a diagonal
- ¼ c cream cheese, softened
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- ⅓ c Camembert cheese, or Brie, or another creamy blue variety
- 1 tsp fresh black pepper, plus more to taste
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- In a large pan, melt 3 Tbsp of butter over medium-low heat. When hot, add the bread, and toast for 4-5 minutes until golden. Once browned, flip the bread and melt 2-3 Tbsp more butter into the pan, moving the bread slightly to absorb the butter. Toast for an additional 4-5 minutes. Once done, transfer to a plate and set aside.
- As the bread toasts, mix together the cream cheese, mustard, Camembert cheese, and salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
- In a medium skillet, heat bacon over medium-low. Cook for 7-9 minutes, allowing the fat to render. Add the garlic and rosemary— cook 2-3 minutes more; salt lightly. Finally, add the shrimp and season with salt and pepper; cook 2 minutes, or until just pink and firmed. Remove from the burner and allow the residual heat of the pan to finish cooking the shrimp. As it rests, spread the cheese onto the toasts. Top with the shrimp and bacon, a sprinkle of parsley, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Serve warm.
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