Shrimp Chilau Shrimp Creole Style Food

SHRIMP CREOLE

Steps:

• Heat a large heavy Dutch oven over medium heat. Add oil. Cook garlic, onions, celery, and green bell peppers. Cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in cayenne and let caramelize. Add the seafood stock, tomatoes, Worcestershire, hot sauce, and bay leaves. Season with salt and pepper. Simmer for 35 minutes. Add shrimp and cook about 4 more minutes, until they are bright pink and cooked through. Garnish with green onions.

SHRIMP CHILAU (SHRIMP CREOLE-STYLE)

Steps:

• Rinse the shrimp, remove the shells and reserve the meat and shells separately. Put the tomatoes in a pan and season with the cloves, paprika, salt, black and cayenne peppers and Worcestershire sauce. Add the shrimp shells. Bring the liquid to a simmer, cover the pan and simmer 15 minutes. Press the liquid through a strainer and reserve.
• Chop the green peppers, celery and onions. Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat and saute the peppers, onions and garlic about five minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook 10 minutes more, or until the mixture is slightly thick.
• In a separate pan, saute the shrimp quickly in the butter, two to three minutes only. Add the shrimp to the tomato sauce, add the sliced lime and simmer two to three minutes more. Serve the shrimp with rice or fried plantains.

CREOLE SHRIMP

Steps:

• Get the pan hot over a medium high flame, saute all ingredients, except flour, tomato paste and tomatoes, in the olive oil and butter until they begin to wilt. Add flour and tomato paste. Season with oregano, thyme, parsley. cayenne pepper, white pepper and black pepper.
• Saute all that until it begins to brown. After 5 minutes when it's quite brown, add the tomatoes. Stir in hot pepper sauce and Worcestershire, to taste. Add sugar and salt. Reduce heat and let the sauce simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Shrimp: In a pan over medium heat, saute shrimp in 1 tablespoon of whole butter. While the shrimp is cooking, splash it with white wine. Then add to taste, some chopped scallions, a pinch of parsley and a bit of cayenne pepper and paprika.
• After the shrimp is almost ready, add it to the sauce for 3 to 4 minutes. so the Creole flavor cooks into the shrimp. Prepare the serving plates with cooked rice. Ladle the shrimp and Creole sauce into the rice beds, making sure there is lots of sauce. (Creole dishes feature "Lots of Gravy"). Garnish with sliced scallions (the green parts) for color and lemon wedges.

CUBAN SHRIMP CREOLE RECIPE (CAMARONES ENCHILADOS)

Steps:

• In a dutch oven or large pot, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onions, green peppers and garlic. Sauté for 2 minutes.
• Stir in tomato sauce, wine (or stock), vinegar, pimientos, bay leaf, parsley, oregano, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil then cover. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Add shrimp and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally until they are fully cooked. Serve over rice or with veggies. Enjoy!

SHRIMP CREOLE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook onions, bell pepper, celery, and garlic in the oil, until vegetables are tender, 5-6 minutes.
• Stir in the tomato paste and cook for a minute, then add 1 cup of the chicken broth and mix well.
• Then add the diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, bay leaves, cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and salt, stirring to mix.
• Bring mixture to a boil, then reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes.
• Mix the remaining chicken broth with the flour until it is smooth.
• Whisk it into the sauce and stir constantly for 5 minutes.
• Add the shrimp and cook just till shrimp turn pink and curl.
• Remove bay leaves before serving.
• Serve with steamed rice and Tabasco sauce, if desired.

SPICY SHRIMP CREOLE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a Dutch oven on medium heat. Saute celery, onions, and garlic in the Dutch oven until the onions are pearly white and the celery has begun to soften.
• Mix sugar, flour, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper into the Dutch oven. Add crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce, both pieces of bay leaf, and hot sauce. Bring the mixture to a boil, then turn the heat to low.
• Let the mixture simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Approximately 15 minutes before serving, add shrimp to the pot and stir well. If necessary, raise the temperature to medium-low to ensure the Creole is bubbling but not burning. Scoop out the bay leaf halves before serving. Serve when the shrimp is pink and thoroughly cooked.

SHRIMP WITH CREOLE SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large nonstick skillet, saute the onion, green pepper and celery in oil for 3-4 minutes. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Drain tomatoes, reserving juice; add juice to skillet. Mash tomatoes and add to skillet. Stir in the parsley, water, tomato paste, lime juice and seasonings. , Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes or until thickened. Serve warm with shrimp.

SHRIMP WITH SPICY CREOLE SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine first 8 ingredients in large bowl. Add shrimp and toss to coat.
• Melt 3 tablespoon butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add Worcestershre sauce, lemon juice and garlic; sauté until garlic is tender, about 2 minutes. Add shrimp;sauté until opaque in center, about 3 minutes. Add remaining 4 tablespoons butter; stir until melted.
• Transfer shrimp to large bowl. Pour sauce over shrimp. Serve with hot French bread for dipping.

CREOLE-STYLE SHRIMP AND SAUSAGE GUMBO

Steps:

• Bring the reserved shrimp shells and 4 1/2 cups water to a boil in a stockpot or large saucepan over med-high heat.
• Decrease heat to med-low and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Strain the stock and add the clam juice and ice water (you should have about 2 quarts of tepid stock, 100 to 110 degrees); discard the shells; set the stock aside.
• Heat the oil in a Dutch oven or large heavy-bottomed saucepan over med-high heat until it registers 200 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
• Decrease the heat to medium and gradually stir in the flour with a wooden spatula or spoon, working out any lumps that form.
• Continue stirring constantly, reaching into the edges of the pan, until the mixture has a toasty aroma and is deep reddish brown, about the color of an old copper penny or between the colors of milk chocolate and dark chocolate, about 20 minutes (the roux will become thinner as it cooks; if it begins to smoke, remove the pan from the heat and stir the roux constantly, to cool slightly).
• Add the onions, bell pepper, celery, garlic, thyme, salt, and cayenne to the roux and cook, stirring frequently, until the vegetables soften, 8-10 minutes.
• Add 1 quart reserved stock in a slow, steady stream while stirring vigorously.
• Stir in the remaining stock.
• Increase the heat to high and bring to a boil.
• Decrease heat to medium-low, skim the foam off the surface, add the bay leaves, and simmer, uncovered, skimming any foam that rises to the surface, about 30 minutes.
• Stir in the sausage and continue simmering to blend the flavors, about 30 minutes.
• Stir in the shrimp and simmer until cooked through, about 5 minutes.
• Off the heat, stir in the parsley and scallions and adjust the seasonings with salt, pepper, and cayenne to taste.
• Remove the bay leaves and serve immediately.

EASY SHRIMP CREOLE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, saute the onion, celery and green pepper in oil for 6-7 minutes or until crisp-tender. Stir in the soup, tomato juice, water, salsa, lemon juice, parsley, chili powder, garlic powder and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; cover and cook for 6-8 minutes or until heated through. , Add the shrimp; cook, uncovered, for 3-4 minutes or until heated through. Serve with rice.

DELICIOUS SHRIMP CREOLE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a Dutch oven or heavy pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic in hot oil until soft, 5 to 7 minutes; add diced tomatoes and green chiles, tomato sauce, sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, and bay leaves. Reduce heat to medium low and continue cooking until vegetables are soft, about 30 minutes.
• Put flour into a large sealable plastic bag. Season flour with salt and pepper. Add shrimp to bag, close bag, and shake to coat shrimp in seasoned flour.
• Stir tomato juice into the mixture in the Dutch oven. Reduce heat to low and cook until the juice reduces slightly, about 5 minutes; add shrimp and cook until shrimp turn pink, about 5 minutes. Remove Dutch oven from heat and let the residual heat finish cooking the shrimp until they are bright pink and the meat is no longer translucent, about 5 minutes more.

SHRIMP CREOLE FOR 2

Steps:

• Melt butter in 8-inch skillet; cook and stir onion, celery, gren pepper and garlic over medium heat until onion is tender.
• Stir in tomato sauce, water, parsley flakes and seasonings.
• Simmer uncovered 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in frozen shrimp; heat to boiling.
• Reduce heat; cover and simmer until shrimp are done, about 10 minutes.
• Serve on rice.