Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, shrimp etoufee. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Melt the butter in a large Dutch oven set over medium heat. Add the flour and stir continuously to make a roux. Shrimp étouffée brings together all of the hallmarks of Louisiana cooking: Seafood (help our own shrimpers by making sure you use Gulf shrimp for your etouffee), a flour-and-oil roux, the "Holy Trinity" of onion, celery and green pepper, traditional Cajun seasoning and hot sauce. Add the butter and stir; the heat from the dish will melt the butter.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shrimp etoufee using 31 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Etoufee:
- Get Shrimp stock
- Get Heads and shells of prawns
- Make ready Top and bottom of green pepper
- Make ready 1 celery stalk, chopped
- Make ready 1/2 onion, chopped
- Get 1 fat clove of garlic, chopped
- Take 5 pepper corns
- Get 3 bay leaves
- Make ready Etoufee
- Get 500 g prawns (heads and shells removed for stock above)
- Take 30 ml vegetable or sunflower oil
- Take 30 g flour
- Get 1/2 large onion
- Take 1 green pepper
- Make ready 2 large celery stalks
- Take 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- Get 1/2 pint shrimp stock or more to taste
- Get 1 heaped tablespoon Cajun seasoning
- Prepare Salt
- Take 3 spring onions
- Take Tabasco
- Make ready Rice
- Prepare Cajun seasoning
- Get 3 tsp paprika
- Get 1 tsp dried thyme
- Take 1 tsp dried oregano
- Make ready 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Get 1 tsp garlic powder
- Get 1 tsp onion powder
- Prepare 1 tsp white pepper
- Get 1 tsp black pepper
It is a thick stew, loaded with tender shrimp. Season the shrimp with the remaining tablespoon Essence and add them to the pot, stirring to evenly distribute. Add the chopped parsley to the pot and stir to combine. Serve the etouffée with steamed white rice.
Steps to make Shrimp Etoufee:
- Remove heads from prawns.
- Add top of green pepper, peppercorns, 1 celery stalk chopped, 3 bay leaves, fat garlic clove chopped, half an onion chopped to a pot with the prawn heads and shells.
- Cover with water and simmer for 45 minutes. Strain through a sieve.
- Set aside 1 heaped tablespoon of Cajun seasoning.
- Dry prawns with paper towels. Put them on a plate and cover with remaining Cajun seasoning and half a teaspoon of salt.
- Heat a tablespoon butter in a cast iron pan on a medium heat.
- Cook shrimp in the hot butter without stirring for 1 minute; stir, and cook 1 minute more.
- Transfer to a bowl (they should still be somewhat raw)
- Heat the oil in the cast iron pan over medium heat for 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the flour, making sure there are no clumps. Let this cook, stirring often, until it turns a very deep brown; this should take about 15 minutes or so.
- Add the celery, green pepper, and onion, mix well and cook this over medium heat for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic and cook another 2 minutes
- Add the shrimp stock slowly. The roux will absorb the stock and seize up at first, then it will loosen. Add additional stock as needed to make a sauce about the thickness of gravy.
- Add the Cajun seasoning and paprika and mix well. Simmer for 30 minutes or so with a lid on (or off if you’d like a thicker consistency)
- Increase the temperature and add salt to taste, then mix in the shrimp. Cover the pot, turn the heat to its lowest setting and cook for 5 minutes.
- Serve with steamed rice, Tabasco and green onions.
Add the chopped parsley to the pot and stir to combine. Serve the etouffée with steamed white rice. Garnish with the green onion tops. Shrimp Étouffée for Louisiana down home cookin' -. With Mardi Gras quickly approaching I thought I would share one of my favorite dishes from N'awlins, Shrimp Étouffée.
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