Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, shrimp etouffee. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
What is Etouffee? Étouffée basically means "smothered," and it is a common cooking technique in Shrimp étouffée brings together all of the hallmarks of Louisiana cooking: Seafood (help our own. Shrimp Étouffée is one of my very favorite dishes, and this is the first time I've made it, thanks to your easy instructions. It was VERY filling, so it was okay that we only had a pound and a half shrimp.
Shrimp Etouffee is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Shrimp Etouffee is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have shrimp etouffee using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Etouffee:
- Make ready 2 1/2 lb Wild caught Shrimp
- Take 2 cup Celery
- Make ready 2 tbsp Garlic
- Prepare 1 cup Red bell pepper
- Prepare 4 cup Onion
- Take 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Prepare 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Prepare 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Get 1/2 cup green onion
- Prepare 1/2 cup flour
- Take 1 can diced tomatoes
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp Cajun seasoning
- Get 5 dash tobasco sauce
- Make ready 1/4 cup parsley leaves
- Make ready 2 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1 stick butter
- Prepare 6 cup prepared white rice
- Prepare 8 oz Clam juice
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
- Prepare 2 cup shrimp stock (or chicken stock)
Food historians trace back Louisiana etouffee to the crawfish capital of the world, Breaux Bridges, Louisiana. Shrimp étouffée is the classic Cajun and Creole dish of plump and tender shrimp smothered in a thick, rich roux-based sauce. It's not cooked like a traditional stew, which means you need to make sure the. Season the shrimp with the remaining tablespoon of Essence and add them to the pot, stirring to evenly distribute.
Steps to make Shrimp Etouffee:
- First make the roux. Combine butter and flour and melt over medium heat. Stir for 10 to 15 minutes until it turns the color of peanut butter.
- Add celery, onions and bell peppers. Stir frequently for about 10 to 15 minutes until the vegetable soften.
- Add diced tomatoes and garlic, sir, cook for about 5 more minutes.
- Add pepper and salt and stir.
- Slowly add in stock and clam juice. Add lemon juice and bay leaves. Stir, bring to soft boil. Reduce heat to a simmer.
- Add Cajun seasoning, parsley and green onions. Simmer for 40 minutes stirring often.
- Meanwhile, in last 20-30 minutes cook rice.
- Add shrimp, cook 5-10 more minutes.
- Serve over rice (or mix rice sand étouffée in same pot). Enjoy!
This Creole shrimp étouffée recipe is made with a brown roux and tomatoes. The shrimp are smothered (étouffée means smothered) in the rich sauce. This easy-to-make dish from the Creole-Cajun canon is perfect for chilly weeknight supper. Recipe notes: This dish requires no stock. The smell of Etouffee, be it Crawfish (my Crawfish Etouffee Recipe) or Shrimp, is one of the most heavenly aromas that I know, along with the smell of Shrimp a la Creole.
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