Tag: seafood
Shrimp Etouffee
Shrimp Etouffee
Etouffee is another classic dish from Louisiana. This extremely rich seafood gravy has a ton of shrimp(or crawfish) that gets ladled over steamed rice.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup onion diced
- 1/4 cup celery diced
- 1/4 cup green bell pepper diced
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup flour
- 1 tbsp creole seasoning
- 1 1/2 cups seafood stock
- 1 stick butter
- 1 lb 26/30 ct. shrimp peeled and deveined
- 1/2 cup green onions chopped
Instructions
- Heat up the oil in a large sauté pan over medium high heat. Add in the flour and whisk continuously for 5 minutes.
- Whisk in the vegetables and 1/2 tbsp of the creole seasoning. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Set the roux of vegetables aside.
- In another sauté pan, melt half of the butter. Add in the shrimp and green onions. Cook for a minute.
- Add the shrimp to the roux along with the seafood stock, butter, and the rest of the creole seasoning. Cook for 5 minutes.
Crab Fried Rice
Crab Fried Rice
Crab fried rice happens to be the most popular type of fried rice in Thailand; and for good reason. This is one of those types of food that you taste once and can’t stop eating. The fried rice boasts a nice crab flavor from the crab paste in soybean oil and the large pieces of claw meat throughout the rice. Minimal prep time and cooks in 12 minutes. This side dish will outshine your main course.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 small onion diced
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 2 tbsp crab paste in oil
- 2 cups day old cooked basmati rice
- 4 oz crab claw meat
- 4 green onions
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- 2 tbsp maggi seasoning
- 2 large eggs beaten
Instructions
- Heat up the oil in a large wok or sauté pan over medium high heat. Sauté the onions for 4 minutes. Add in the garlic and cook for 1 more minute.
- Add the crab paste. Cook for 1 minute.
- Add in the rice. Break up all of the clumps. Fry for 2 minutes.
- Stir in the crab claw meat. Cook for 1 minute.
- Stir in the green onions. Season with maggi and white pepper.
- Make a well in the center of the pan. Pour in the eggs. Let set for a minute then scramble. Mix with the rice.
Bahamian Salad
Bahamian Salad
Conch is found all over the Caribbean, Bahamas, and the Florida keys. It is kind of a cross between scallops and squid in texture, but light and sweet in flavor. Conch is typically eaten raw, only being “cooked” from citrus acidity. This is an item that you’ll have s hard time finding in a regular grocery store. I happened to have found really good quality frozen conch at my local Asian market for $8/lb. Bahamians call this particular dish a salad, but it’s really conch ceviche. The conch gets cleaned, tenderized with a mallet, cubed, then marinated in old sour for a few minutes. This helps with further tenderization and adds heat to the conch meat. After that, the liquid is drained. All of the ingredients get tossed together and a marinated for a half hour in lemon, lime, and orange juice. Serve with tortilla chips, tostada shells, or even eat as a taco.
Equipment
- mallet
Ingredients
- 3 conch
- old sour
- 1/2 medium red onion finely chopped
- 1 medium red bell pepper finely chopped
- 2 small roma tomatoes seeded and finely chopped
- 1 mango diced
- 1 serrano pepper finely chopped
- 1 lime juiced
- 1 lemon juiced
- 1 orange juiced
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash and trim any inedible parts on your conch.
- Butterfly open the conch. Using a mallet, pound the fuck out of the conch on both sides.
- Dice into small cubes.
- Marinate for 10 minutes in enough old sour to cover the conch. Drain the liquid.
- In a large bowl, mix together all of the ingredients. Allow them to marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
