French Seafood Sauce With Prawns Recipes

CREAMY GARLIC PRAWNS (SHRIMP)

Steps:

• Place prawns, garlic, oil and pepper in a bowl. Toss to coat, set aside 20 minutes if time permits (no longer).
• Stir through salt just prior to cooking.
• Melt 15g / 1 tbsp butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add half the prawns and cook for 1 minute on each side, then remove.
• Repeat with remaining prawns (you shouldn't need more butter), then remove. Scrape out excess remaining garlic from pan and add to cooked prawns.
• Add butter into skillet and let it melt. Add garlic and stir for 30 seconds or until light golden.
• Add white wine, turn up heat to high. Bring to simmer while stirring base of the pan to dissolve all the golden bits into the sauce. Cook 1 minute or until it most evaporates and the winey smell is gone.
• Add chicken stock and reduce until mostly gone and just a thin layer remains on base of skillet.
• Add cream, then simmer on medium heat for 2 minutes until reduced and slightly thickened.
• Stir through parmesan, then add the prawns back in. Taste sauce and see if more salt and pepper is needed.
• Serve sprinkled with parsley, over mashed potato or something to soak up that fabulous sauce!

SHRIMP PROVENCAL

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Quickly saute shrimp until they turn pink, but are not cooked through; remove from skillet and set aside. Add the bell peppers, onion, garlic, fennel seeds, and thyme; cook until the onion softens, about 8 minutes.
• Stir in white wine, tomato paste, and diced tomatoes. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until the flavors blend, about 10 minutes. Add the shrimp, and simmer until they are cooked and turn opaque, about 3 minutes. Stir in the basil, and season to taste with salt and pepper before serving.

5 GREAT PRAWN DIPPING SAUCES

Steps:

• Place ingredients in a bowl and mix to combine.
• Adjust salt to taste (Note 3).
• Place all ingredients except coriander in a bowl, whisk well. Stir through coriander and add salt and pepper to taste. Rest 20 minutes before using.

FRENCH SEAFOOD SAUCE, WITH PRAWNS!

Steps:

• Clean the shrimps by rinsing well under a cold tap. Use a sieve or colander for this. Shake off excess water.
• Clean further by cutting down the back with any scissors. Remove the blackish vein, if any: is easiest to use kitchen paper to work on and scrape the vein on to that. Discard the paper when finished.
• Peel the shrimps and carefully pull off the skins and the head, and put in a separate bowl. Do NOT press out the gunk in the head. It won't kill you and will add to the flavour of your stock. You want all the peels and the heads.
• Cover and keep the cleaned shrimps to cook later.
• Put the water, lemon juice and shrimp/prawn peels and heads into a large heavy-bottomed pot.
• Add the prepared carrots, onion, potatoes and tomatoes, and stir through.
• Bring to the boil.
• When the stock comes to a rolling boil, turn down the heat, put on the lid, and simmer for about 20 minutes.
• Add the sugar, Thai fish sauce, parsley, garlic and pepper sauce. Stir and let simmer another 10 minutes.
• *Please note that I did not measure everything carefully. I was trying to imitate a recipe, so I guessed some quantities. I might have used more fish sauce than stated, and also more sugar. I used local piquanté pepper chutney instead of a hot pepper sauce. So there might be little differences between your results and mine. DO taste -- the fun of cooking lies in experimenting!
• Using a very fine sieve, strain the whole pot into a bowl. Don't let any shrimp peels fall into the stock.
• You will have about 3 cups of stock or more.
• Now add back into the stock the potato chunks (or as much as you can, as some would have disintegrated) and the carrot chunks.
• Taste it: it will need more salt, or a seasoning salt of your choice.
• Put it in a processor or blender, and blend until the vegetables have slightly thickened the sauce. Add the cream and whizz again.
• Use only the amount of sauce you plan to use for your dish, i.e. 1 cup for pasta for six people. Cool and freeze the rest for another day.
• Taste again to see whether you'd like to add more salt or maybe even a little (real tomato) ketchup, or pepper sauce.
• I haven't yet attempted that fish terrine, but the sauce was great over fettucine, with the shrimps which were simply fried in olive oil, with seasoning.
• Add a green salad of mixed small leaves -- mesclun, as the French say. And don't forget the chilled white wine: a sauvignon blanc ought to do it -- .

SHRIMP AND SCALLOP CREPES

Steps:

• Combine milk, flour, eggs, and melted butter in a blender. Process until smooth, for at least 1 minute. Set aside and let rest for 30 minutes.
• Coat a crepe pan or nonstick small skillet with melted butter. Pour in 1/4 cup crepe batter and swirl the pan until entire bottom is covered in a thin layer of batter. Cook until small brown spots appear on the bottom of the crepe, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Loosen crepe carefully from the pan using a spatula and gently flip to brown the other side, 1 to 2 minutes more. Slide crepe onto a plate. Repeat with remaining batter, re-buttering the pan as needed and stacking crepes onto the plate.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add shrimp and scallops and cook until shrimp are bright pink on the outside and scallops are golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from skillet.
• Melt 1 teaspoon butter in the same skillet and increase heat to medium-high. Add mushrooms and green onions; saute until mushrooms are tender, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Melt 4 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium heat until bubbling. Whisk in flour until mixture becomes paste-like and lightly golden, about 2 minutes. Add milk and chicken broth and whisk until sauce is smooth and thickened. Thin out with more milk if needed.
• Add Swiss cheese, wine, and sherry to the sauce; stir until cheese melts. Season with salt and pepper. Reserve 2/3 cup sauce. Add shrimp, scallops, mushrooms, and onions to the remaining 1/3 of the sauce and stir until heated through.
• Spoon about 1/4 cup of the filling across the lower third of each crepe. Roll crepes up jellyroll-style and serve at the table with the reserved sauce.

COGNAC SHRIMP WITH BEURRE BLANC SAUCE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Simmer shallots, white wine, and lemon juice in a small saucepan over low-medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes, until mixture is reduced to about 2 tablespoons.
• Add cream and bring to just under a simmer.
• When first few bubbles rise, turn heat down very slightly and add 12 tablespoons of butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, whisking constantly. Be sure to allow 1 pat of butter to melt completely before adding the next.
• Once butter is fully incorporated, season beurre blanc sauce with white pepper and set aside.
• In a skillet over high heat, melt 5 tablespoons of butter, and then sauté shrimp, turning a few times until cooked through-about 3 to 4 minutes.
• Reduce heat to low and season shrimp with salt. Carefully add Cognac (it may flame) and stir thoroughly.
• Spoon warm beurre blanc sauce over hot shrimp and serve.

MARINATED SHRIMP WITH CHAMPAGNE BEURRE BLANC

Steps:

• For sauce base:
• Combine Champagne, shallots, vinegar, and peppercorns in heavy medium saucepan. Boil until reduced to 1/4 cup liquid, about 20 minutes. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature.)
• For shrimp:
• Combine Champagne, olive oil, shallots, and ground pepper in resealable plastic bag. Add shrimp to bag and seal; shake bag to coat shrimp evenly. Marinate shrimp at room temperature at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour, turning bag occasionally. Mix chives, tarragon, and parsley in small bowl.
• Preheat broiler. Spray broiler pan with nonstick vegetable oil spray. Drain shrimp; discard plastic bag with marinade. Arrange shrimp on prepared pan in single layer. Broil shrimp until just opaque in center, about 2 minutes per side. Stand 3 shrimp, tails upright, in center of each plate.
• Rewarm sauce base over medium-low heat. Whisk in butter 1 piece at a time, just allowing each to melt before adding next (do not boil or sauce will separate). Season beurre blanc to taste with salt and pepper.
• Spoon warm sauce around shrimp. Sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve.

FRENCH SHRIMP

Steps:

• Chop parsley and combine with garlic, shallot and butter (not melted).
• Blend well and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• Clean and butterfly shrimp.
• Over medium heat, add small amount of oil to skillet.
• When hot, dip shrimp into egg, then fry for about 2 minutes.
• Do not overcrowd and be careful not to overcook; do in batches.
• Place shrimp in oven-proof casserole dish.
• Melt butter mixture and pour over shrimp.
• Broil for 2 minutes or until very hot.