Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, stewed shrimp 🍤. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Stewed Shrimp 🍤 is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Stewed Shrimp 🍤 is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

From the intro to the recipe - Shrimp stew is practically a staple dish in the area of Louisiana known as Acadiana, in the southern part of the state. Old time cooks garnished the dish with chopped hard-boil eggs. If you can, purchase shrimp with the heads and tails intact so that you can use them to make a stock.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stewed shrimp 🍤 using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Stewed Shrimp 🍤:

1. Prepare 2 bags (frozen) Raw Jumbo Shrimp ~ peeled and deveined
2. Make ready 1 green pepper, sliced
3. Take 1 onion, sliced
4. Get Fresh minced garlic (10 cloves)
5. Take 2 cans diced tomatoes (14.5 ounce)
6. Get 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
7. Get 1/2 teaspoon Crushed red pepper
8. Prepare 1 tablespoon Oregano
9. Get 1 teaspoon basil leaves
10. Get Sprinkle Adobo
11. Prepare Sprinkle Black Pepper
12. Get Bay leaves (3)
13. Make ready Cooking spoon amount of Spanish Olives (stuffed with Pimento)
14. Prepare Olive oil

This is a recipe taught to my by my mother-in-law, Audry Falgout. It has a great flavor and for being a South Louisiana recipe in well seasoned but not overly seasoned. The darker you cook your roux, the deeper the flavor. This may seem like a long time to cook shrimp but it works.

Steps to make Stewed Shrimp 🍤:

1. Rinse your raw shrimp 🍤 in cold water and make sure that you remove the shells from the shrimps…..
2. Heat olive oil in a large pan…..
3. Slice your green pepper, onion, and mince your garlic….
4. Add sliced green pepper and onion to olive oil in pan, sauté until veggies are tender, then add your minced garlic and sauté until garlic is fragrant…..
5. Add your 2 cans diced tomatoes (undrained) and tomato sauce….Stir well….
6. Next add to sauce: Crushed red pepper, oregano, basil leaves, Adobo and black pepper…..Stir well…
7. Now add the basil leaves and the spoonful of stuffed olives…..Stir well, cover and cook for 30 minutes on medium heat……
8. Remove bay leaves from tomato sauce mixture and add your cleaned shrimp 🍤, cook until all shrimp have turned nice and pink….
9. Remove from heat, serve over white rice 🍚 and enjoy 😉!!

In our family it is typically served over hot cooked rice with potato salad on the side. Stewed shrimp is not just Dominican food. It is a common dish throughout Latin America, with different touches depending on the taste of each country. Those most similar to ours are Puerto Rico's, which I loved when I tried them in San Juan years ago. A shrimp stew so to speak.

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