Shrimp, a mouth
watering delicacy may be spiced with various
different ingredients. The shrimps along with
the spice mixture can be used to make very many
exotic dishes.
The versatility
of shrimp meat, its flavor and taste allows
it to be used in any dish and instantly transform
it into something delicious.
Spiced shrimp
in combination with wild rice is a dish worth
mentioning here. First the wild rice is cooked
with salt and water in a sauce for about an
hour. Rice is then mixed as fluffed together
with vinegar and oil. The shrimp is then cooked
with bay leaf, peppercorns, cloves, coriander
seeds and salt. Mixed together some vinegar,
salt, pepper and oil and put it the shrimp mixture,
to let it marinate for at least seven to eight
hours. For garnishing, keep aside 15 shrimps.
The remaining shrimps should be cut into half
inch pieces and strained through a sieve so
that the spices are discarded. Then mix the
cut shrimp, the mixture of wild rice, minced
parsley and pepper.
Cooking with
spiced shrimp would be incomplete if one did
not mention a highly palatable soup which can
be made out of these. After the shrimps are
shelled, they are rinsed carefully. The shell
and heads are kept aside. Some lemon grass stalk
is cut up and crushed. This crushed lemon grass
is put into a cooking vessels with the shrimp
shells and heads which had been kept aside.
These are cooked in water along with coriander
salt and pepper and allowed to simmer for half
an hour. Strain the broth into another vessel.
Take some more lemon grass stock, slice it and
mix it with the broth. Simmer again for sometime.
Add the shrimp and putt the cooking vessel on
the fire once more till the shrimp meat becomes
firm. Put in fish sauce, lime juice and sliced
chilli. Serve this hot soup garnished with chilies,
coriander leaves and lime leaves.
Jumbo spiced
shrimps can be used to make an extremely tasty
main dish. A spice mixture of cinnamon, black
pepper, mustard and salt is mixed together properly.
Cover the Jumbo shrimps with this coating and
put into the refrigerator for an hour. After
taking out from the refrigerator, the shrimp
can be toasted over hot coals on both sides
for a few minutes. In order to toast the shrimps,
they have to be put into a skewer. This dish
can also be baked in the oven. Whichever way
it is cooked, it is equally delectable.
Spiced shrimp,
we can therefore see, is extremely versatile
and can be used to make hundreds of different
dishes.
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