Shrimp (prawn) Creole (quick and Easy)
Method
Tips
- You can cook the shrimp in the mixture or cook it separately and add it at the end. Other "Creole" dishes may be made by replacing with some other meat or seafood for the shrimp, or leave out the meat completely.
Creole type dishes incline to resemble the combination of a gumbo and a jambalaya. They are characteristically thicker and spicier than a gumbo, and the rice is prepared separately and used as a bed for the Creole combination, rather than cooked in the same pot as with a jambalaya. Creole recipes also do not contain broth or roux, instead, the Creole mix is simmered to its desired degree of thickness. Apart from the base ingredients of onion, celery and bell pepper, Creole recipes are commonly used as improvised dishes, as the basic recipe may be altered to include whatever ingredients the cook has readily available.
Ingredients
- YOU WILL NEED
- 450 grams raw medium sized prawns (shrimps) without shells
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped green pepper
- ½ cup chopped celery
- ½ teaspoon dried chillies, crushed
- 6 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 x 400 gram tin chopped tomatoes
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- ¼ teaspoon Tabasco sauce, to taste
- 5 cups cooked long grain rice
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