Guy Fieri, Samy Hagar Share Recipes For Memorial Day Weekend

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Legendary rocker and entrepreneur Sammy Hagar and acclaimed Emmy Award-winning chef and restaurateur Guy Fieri are sharing recipes to help you plan the perfect Memorial Day menu, with festive easy-to-find ingredients for your at-home celebration. The menu includes, a refreshing Watermelon Cucumber Fresca cocktail made with their award-winning Santo Tequila Blanco and Guy Fieri’s recipe for Bacon Wrapped Chipotle BBQ Shrimp.  ​

Santo Watermelon Cucumber Fresca Cocktail

Santo Watermelon Cucumber Fresca Cocktail 
Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Santo Tequila Blanco
• 1 oz. Agave Nectar
• 1 oz. Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
• 2 Cubes of Watermelon
• 4 pieces of Cucumber (Quartered and cut into 1/8" slices)

Build Procedures:
1. Grab a 12oz Collins glass or Mason Jar, fill with ice and set aside.
2. In a mixing glass, add watermelon pieces, cucumbers and lime juice.
Muddle lightly.
3. Fill mixing glass 2/3 with ice and add tequila and agave.
4. Cap mixing glass with shaker tin and shake vigorously for 10-15
seconds.
5. Strain contents from shaker tin into the 12oz glass of ice.
6. Garnish with watermelon and cucumber

Bacon Wrapped Chipotle BBQ Shrimp
Prep Time 50 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes

Ingredients:

• 8 oz – Bacon
• 20 each – Shrimp 21/25 count, peeled & deveined
• ½ cup – BBQ Sauce
• ¼ cup – Canola Oil
• 3 tbls – Chipotle in Adobo
• 3 tbls – Lemon Juice
• 1 tbls – Dijon Mustard
• ½ tsp – Red Chili Flakes
• ¼ tsp – Black Pepper, fresh ground
• ¼ tsp – Cayenne Pepper, ground

Preparation & Serving:

1. Soak the bamboo skewers in water to keep from burning during grilling.
2. Partially cook the bacon, cut in half and let cool on paper towels.
3. Wrap the bacon around the shrimp and skewer through the point where the bacon ends to keep from unraveling.  3-5 per skewer.
4.  Combine the BBQ Sauce, oil, chipotle, lemon juice, mustard, chili flakes, black pepper and cayenne in a blender and puree.
5. Separate the sauce, half for basting and half for dipping.
6. Cook the shrimp on the grill over medium heat.  When the shrimp begin to turn pink, begin basting with the sauce.
7. Serve with remaining sauce.

 
Santo Tequila Blanco, which was just named among Robb Report’s “20 Best Tequilas You Can Buy Right Now” and earned an “outstanding” 92-point rating from The Tasting Panel, showcases the unique flavors of agave in every batch, beginning with sustainably-sourced Blue Weber agave from the famed Highlands of Jalisco, Mexico.  Additional cocktail recipes and information's about the Santo's line of spirits are available on the website at SantoSpirit.com.

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Bacon Wrapped Chipotle BBQ Shrimp