Cajun Christmas Dressing

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 5 medium mirlitons (vegetable pears)
• 3 slices bacon, chopped
• 1 small onion, chopped fine
• 1/2 cup chopped shallot
• 1 lb peeled and deveined shrimp
• 1 cup wet bread, squeezed
• garlic salt
• salt and pepper
• tabasco sauce
• seasoned bread crumbs
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten

Recipe

• 1 boil mirlitons until fork tender (about 20 minutes).
• 2 saute bacon, chopped seasonings and shrimp until shrimp are pink.
• 3 add wet bread, garlic salt, salt and pepper to taste and tabasco sauce.
• 4 cook over medium heat until dressing browns a little.
• 5 peel mirlitons, remove center seed, and mash.
• 6 add mashed mirliton to skillet.
• 7 add eggs slowly while stirring.
• 8 add 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs.
• 9 put dressing in buttered casserole.
• 10 sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter and bake at 350 degrees until heated through.