Shrimp Etouffee

Name: Shrimp Etouffee
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Creole, Cajun
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons black pepper; 1 sticks butter; 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning; 411 grams diced tomatoes (recommended: Rotel); 1 teaspoons cayenne pepper, more if desired; 237 milliliters chopped celery; 227 grams clam juice; 118 milliliters all-purpose flour, plus extra flour, optional; 118 milliliters minced fresh parsley leaves; 3 cloves garlic, finely minced; 118 milliliters chopped green bell pepper; 118 milliliters minced green onions, plus extra for garnish; 6 servings Diced green onions, for garnish; 2 dashes hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco); 118 milliliters oil; 6 servings Rice, optional; 6 servings Salt (Cajun seasoning has salt already); 907 grams or medium shrimp peeled and deveined (recommended: (31/35 size count); 1 teaspoons white pepper; 237 milliliters chopped yellow onion

The recipe Shrimp Etouffee is ready in about 1 hour and 10 minutes and is definitely a super pescatarian option for lovers of Creole food. This main course has 492 calories, 35g of protein, and 29g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 29% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. If you have pepper, green onions, clam juice, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the oil you could follow this main course with the Vegan Mango Banana Bread as a dessert.

Instructions

Note: To make roux, use oil instead of butter, because butter burns

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Butter

Cooking Oil

Make the roux, mix oil and flour in a large heavy saucepan over low heat.

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All Purpose Flour

Cooking Oil

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Sauce Pan

Whisk flour into the oil to form a paste. Continue cooking over low heat and whisk continuously, until the mixture turns a caramel color and gives off a nutty aroma, about 15 to 20 minutes. To the roux, add the onion, green pepper, celery, and garlic and cook over low heat about 5 minutes, until the vegetables are limp.

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Caramel Color

Green Pepper

Vegetable

Celery

Garlic

All Purpose Flour

Onion

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

Add the black pepper, white pepper, cayenne pepper, Cajun seasoning, green onions, parsley, and hot sauce to taste.

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Cayenne Pepper

Black Pepper

Green Onions

White Pepper

Hot Sauce

Parsley

Add 1 can clam juice and the tomatoes with their juice, stir to blend.

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Clam Juice

Tomato

Juice

Add the salt, starting with 1 teaspoon, then add more if needed. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.

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Salt

Add shrimp and stir. It will take about 3 minutes for shrimp to cook, don't overcook.

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Shrimp

Remove from heat.

Add the butter and stir; the heat from the dish will melt the butter.

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Butter

Transfer the etouffee to a tureen, serving bowl, or if you prefer, over rice.

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Rice

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Bowl

Garnish with the green onions.

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Green Onions

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Sauce Pan

Whisk

Bowl

Recommended wine: Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc

Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc are great choices for Shrimp. These crisp white wines work well with shrimp prepared in a variety of ways, whether grilled, fried, or in garlic sauce. You could try Alsace Willm Pinot Gris Reserve. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.4 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 16 dollars per bottle.