Shrimp On The Barbie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup coconut milk
1 teaspoon green curry paste (Thai)
2 teaspoons garlic, minced
2 tablespoons lime juice
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 lb jumbo shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails on
4 stalks lemongrass
salt & freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup vegetable oil
GARNISH
reserved marinade
2 teaspoons lime juice
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon chopped mint

Preparation

Combine coconut milk, curry paste and garlic in a saucepan and bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes or until coconut milk has thickened slightly.
Stir in lime juice and fish sauce, cool then toss with shrimp and marinate for 1 hour.
Remove shrimp from marinade and thread shrimps onto lemon grass stalks, spearing shrimps in 2 places so that they don't turn on the skewers. Season with salt and pepper. (Reserve marinade.).
Preheat grill to high.
Brush shrimp with extra oil and grill about 2 minutes per side or until shrimps are cooked.
While shrimp is cooking, place reserved marinade in a small pot over high heat, bring to a boil and boil for 3 minutes or until quite thick (like mayonnaise).
Remove from heat, stir in extra lime juice and sugar.
Drizzle over grilled shrimp and sprinkle with mint.