Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, shrimp creole. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Shrimp creole is a dish of Louisiana Creole origin (French and Spanish heritage), consisting of cooked shrimp in a mixture of whole or diced tomatoes, the "holy trinity" of onion, celery and bell pepper, spiced with hot pepper sauce or cayenne-based seasoning. Similar to Shrimp Étouffée, but with a tomato based sauce, this saucy Shrimp Creole will transport you to the balcony-lined streets of New Orleans. Note that this dish has kick—if you're not a fan of spice.
Shrimp Creole is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Shrimp Creole is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have shrimp creole using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Creole:
- Take 1 stick butter
- Prepare 4 tbsp flour
- Get 1 cup minced onion
- Take 1 cup chopped celery
- Take 1 cup chopped multi color mini sweet peppers
- Make ready 1 cup halved seeded grape tomatoes
- Get 1-2 lbs peeled deveined or purged shrimp
- Take 1/3 cup marinara sauce
- Take to taste Worcestershire sauce
- Get to taste Tony Chachere's seasoning
- Prepare to taste Italian seasoning blend
- Prepare to taste Tabasco
- Prepare 1 cup vegetable broth (increase to 1 1/2 cup for 2lbs shrimp)
- Make ready additional veggie broth for cooking veggies and thinning roux
- Take cooked rice for service
- Take cornstarch slurry if necessary
This super easy shrimp creole comes together in just three easy steps. Get the recipe at Food & Wine. Garnish the shrimp creole with thinly sliced scallions and serve warm with steamed rice. This southern Louisiana shrimp creole dish is cooked with tomatoes, onions, peppers and celery.
Steps to make Shrimp Creole:
- In a large skillet, or small Dutch oven sweat onion, peppers, and celery with vegatable broth as needed to keep moist, cook till softened
- Add butter, melt with veggies, add flour 1 tbsp at a time, thinning with veggie broth if too thick, cook till caramel color, resulting in a veggie roux
- Add Worcestershire sauce, marinara sauce, Tony Chachere's seasoning, Italian blend seasoning, 1 cup vegatable broth, cook to marry flavors and thicken consistency
- Add shrimp and tomatoes, cook till shrimp turn pink about 5-10 mins stirring constantly, if roux becomes too looose, thicken with cornstarch slurry
- Serve over cooked rice, add Tabasco sauce and additional Tony Chachere's seasoning to taste. Enjoy!
Adjust the spice to your preference, but don't be scared of a little heat! Shrimp Creole is near the top of the list. Why would I want to include this dish? Everyone has a recipe for it. A lot of restaurants, even outside of Louisiana serve it.
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