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Shrimp Piquant Stew Main Dishes & Casseroles
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Submitted by Linda Bradley
Forked Island, LA
on Saturday, May 25, 2002
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| Makes: | |
| Prep Time: | 30 minutes |
| Cook Time: | 1 hour, 0 minutes |
| Ready In: | 1 hour, 30 minutes |
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Since seafood is plentiful in the South, one of the more popular dishes is shrimp stew. With some of our Cajun slang, shrimp is sometimes pronounced "shramp". Either way you say it, it is still good. Boiled peeled eggs can be added to this recipe. |
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| Ingredients |
| 3/4 cup flour (all purpose) |
1/2 cup oil (canola or vegetable) |
| 1 onion (chopped small) |
1 bell pepper (chopped small) |
| 2 celery stalks(chopped small) |
1/2 can Rotel tomatoes |
| 1 small can tomato sauce |
2 pounds shrimp |
| salt |
black pepper and cayenne |
| parsley and green onion tops |
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| | | Directions | Make a Roux! Combine the flour and oil in a heavy skillet or cast iron pot. Cook over medium heat, stirring continually, until the mixture is brown as a copper penny. The aroma can be smelled a mile down the road. Add to this, the Cajun Trinity (onion, bell pepper, celery); 2 pods of garlic are optional. Saute until onion has wilted.
Add in the Rotel tomatoes and the tomato sauce. Slowly add two cups water (more or less) to make the stew the desired consistency. More water can be added anytime but remember in the last step when you add the shrimp that shrimp give off water; so you want to keep your stew a little thick until the end. Add salt, black pepper and cayenne to taste. Easy on the salt as the Rotel tomatoes already contain salt.
Cook 1 to 2 hours over a very low fire, stirring occasionally. Add shrimp,(add green onion tops (chives) and parsley chopped fine as an option for added flavor) and cook 10 minutes more. Serve over rice and include French bread and cabbage vinegar. You could also substitute crawfish or combine both.
Boiled eggs may be added in the last few minutes of cooking. The stew will taste even better the next day and can be frozen and eaten later developing an even beter flavor. Boiled eggs do not freeze well; remove eggs before freezing.
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