Unusual dishes prawns

Contents:

• History prawns
• Recipe fried shrimp with morels and curry
• Recipe prawns with avocado sauce

Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can cook them on the barbecue, cook, fry, bake ... If you've ever seen the whole shrimp and live, you know what it looks scary at first sight; but as soon as you remove it, "armor", you will find a delightful small pieces for culinary inspiration. The most remarkable quality - this is their versatility. One of the reasons why the shrimp have become so popular in the world - is that they are easy to replace in dishes other crustaceans.
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History prawns

Soft, sweet taste of shrimp goes well with almost all food, and they are so easy to prepare - no need to wait a long time until they Extinguishes, fry or boil.

Numerous sources inform that the ancient Greeks and Romans were very fond of "pink" sea inhabitants, preferring their lobsters and other types of shellfish. Most of the recipes shrimp originates from cookbooks IV-th or V-th century BC. The Greeks had a popular following recipe: they loved to cook prawns wrapped in fig leaves, and the Romans usually fried them, and sometimes eaten with honey glaze. The popularity of shrimp has only grown since ancient times, and today the recipes of these sea creatures are known worldwide.

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Recipe fried shrimp with morels and curry

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of fresh mushrooms (morels desirable)
• 10 Art. l. butter (at room temperature),
• ½ st. l. red curry paste,
• 24 pcs. raw prawns,
• 1 medium onion (chopped)
• 1 tbsp. l. fresh parsley (chopped)
• salt and pepper to taste

Cooking method:

1. Finely chop the morels. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add red curry paste and morels. Cook 1 minute. Increase the heat and simmer the mixture until almost all the liquid has evaporated (about 3 minutes). Put the resulting mushroom mixture into a small bowl and let cool completely. Add the remaining 6 tablespoons. l. Smorchkova oil mixture. Slightly prisolit and pepper.
2. Using scissors, make a cut along the back of the shrimp and carefully, moving from head to tail, remove one by one chitin plates. You should also remove the intestinal vein and head.
3. Preheat the roasting pan. Dip each shrimp in a morel sauce and curry and cook until it is translucent in the center (about 5-7 minutes). Coat evenly each shrimp curry paste and place in the microwave for a few seconds to melt a little curry.
4. While preparing seafood, melt 2 tablespoons of the remaining oil and fry in a little oil, whole morels with onion until soft. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Place the shrimp on heated plates and fried in oil, add the morels here also. Dishes prepared according to this recipe, decorate your table.

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Recipe prawns with avocado sauce

Creamy texture of ripe avocado creates the perfect icing for coconut rum marinated prawns. Follow the advice of this delicious recipe!

Ingredients:

• 500g prawns (peeled).

For the marinade:

• ½ st. coconut rum,
• 1 tbsp. l. sesame oil
• 3 tbsp. l. coconut milk,
• 1 tbsp. l. honey
• 1 tbsp. l. chili sauce,
• salt and pepper to taste.

For the cream of avocado:

• 1 ripe avocado,
• 3 tbsp. l. coconut milk,
• 1/8 Art. powdered sugar,
• ¼ Art. sour cream
• 2 tbsp. l. fresh lime juice,
• ½ st. toasted coconut (for garnish).

Cooking method:

1. Mix well all the ingredients for the marinade. Pour the marinade in a shallow dish and add the shrimp. Make sure that each of them covered with the marinade. Place in the refrigerator and let them pomarinovatsya 30 minutes.
2. Place the avocado and other ingredients for the cream in a food processor and blend until smooth. Let sit.
3. Heat a dry skillet to medium size medium temperature. Add coconut and fry it until golden brown. Remove from heat and place in a shallow dish to cool it.
4. Preheat oven roasting pan or grill. Remove the prawns from the marinade and spread on skewers. Do not pour the marinade. He needs to be watered during frying shrimp. Cook the shrimp for about 4 minutes on each side or until they porozoveyut.
5. Remove the prawns ready to shpazhek, dip each in the cream of avocado, and then sprinkle with toasted coconut. Enjoy refined recipe of their loved ones!