Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, stewed shrimp 🍤. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
From the intro to the recipe - Shrimp stew is practically a staple dish in the area of Louisiana known as Acadiana, in the southern part of the state. Old time cooks garnished the dish with chopped hard-boil eggs. Chop the onion and the red bell pepper.
Stewed Shrimp 🍤 is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Stewed Shrimp 🍤 is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stewed shrimp 🍤 using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Stewed Shrimp 🍤:
- Get 2 bags (frozen) Raw Jumbo Shrimp ~ peeled and deveined
- Take 1 green pepper, sliced
- Get 1 onion, sliced
- Make ready Fresh minced garlic (10 cloves)
- Get 2 cans diced tomatoes (14.5 ounce)
- Make ready 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Crushed red pepper
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Oregano
- Make ready 1 teaspoon basil leaves
- Take Sprinkle Adobo
- Take Sprinkle Black Pepper
- Make ready Bay leaves (3)
- Get Cooking spoon amount of Spanish Olives (stuffed with Pimento)
- Get Olive oil
It is a common dish throughout Latin America, with different touches depending on the taste of each country. Those most similar to ours are Puerto Rico's, which I loved when I tried them in San Juan years ago. A shrimp stew so to speak. And lucky for me, I happened upon an inspiration from the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean, and particularly Gaza… A flavor-packed shrimp stew in chunky tomato sauce with bell peppers and warm Eastern Mediterranean spices.
Steps to make Stewed Shrimp 🍤:
- Rinse your raw shrimp 🍤 in cold water and make sure that you remove the shells from the shrimps…..
- Heat olive oil in a large pan…..
- Slice your green pepper, onion, and mince your garlic….
- Add sliced green pepper and onion to olive oil in pan, sauté until veggies are tender, then add your minced garlic and sauté until garlic is fragrant…..
- Add your 2 cans diced tomatoes (undrained) and tomato sauce….Stir well….
- Next add to sauce: Crushed red pepper, oregano, basil leaves, Adobo and black pepper…..Stir well…
- Now add the basil leaves and the spoonful of stuffed olives…..Stir well, cover and cook for 30 minutes on medium heat……
- Remove bay leaves from tomato sauce mixture and add your cleaned shrimp 🍤, cook until all shrimp have turned nice and pink….
- Remove from heat, serve over white rice 🍚 and enjoy 😉!!
My family went nuts for it! This shrimp stew recipe is easy to make. This is a recipe taught to my by my mother-in-law, Audry Falgout. It has a great flavor and for being a South Louisiana recipe in well seasoned but not overly seasoned. The darker you cook your roux, the deeper the flavor.
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