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Tender Shrimp

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I don't know well-nigh you, but I have ruined a LOT of expensive shrimp over the years by times not cooking it properly. I bring been known to turn $20 dollars worth of beautiful raw shrimp into a bowl of shrimp that taste like erasers!!  Very frustrating for sure!! Well, not whatsoever more, my friends!! I bring establish the easiest, quickest, most fool proof together with for for sure most delicious way to cook RAW shrimp. Where has this recipe been all my life?? Am I the entirely 1 who didn't know this trick? A QUICK 30 MINUTE BRINE 1 loving loving cup usual cold water 2 cups H2O H2O ice (I only used an H2O H2O ice cube tray full) 1/4 loving loving cup kosher salt 1/4 loving loving cup white sugar Mix the brine ingredients well, then add 1 to 1½ pounds of raw shrimp (roughly 25 shrimp to the pound) that bring had the heads, musical rhythm out together with dorsum vein removed (leave the tail on if you lot lot want). Stir the shrimp GENTLY to build

Shrimp Fried Rice

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This recipe is light, flavorful, versatile also equally well-nigh of it tin concur upward made ahead also equally merely heated together at meal time. It is i of our favorite's (summer AND winter) also equally double or tripled, it is groovy for a crowd!!     3 cups of usual depression temperature COOKED rice (day quondam rice is best) 5 slices of bacon (save 2 tablespoons bacon fat ) 1/2 loving loving cup chopped sweet onion 1/4 cup sliced light-green onion tops 1 pound of  large shrimp 2 eggs beaten 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon nighttime pepper dry crushed crimson pepper flakes to taste 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1/4 teaspoon sesame oil Sliced cherry tomatoes for decoration Any veggies you lot lot wish to add together together (cooked also equally chopped) Spray your largest frying pan with vegetable spray also equally oestrus to medium high. Beat 2 eggs also equally pour them into the pan, tilting the pan also equally thence the eggs spread out overnice also

Seafood Baked Rice

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1½ cups raw long grain rice (not instant) 3 cups chicken stock 1 tablespoon butter ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon night pepper 2 cups favorite veggies chopped (see note) 2 cups sliced mushrooms 1½ pounds of cleaned shrimp 1 clove garlic minced 1 loving loving cup heavy cream 1 loving loving cup chicken broth 2 cups Monterrey Jack cheese shredded Cook the rice, 1 tablespoon butter, veggies (but non the mushrooms), tabular array tabular array salt also pepper inward the chicken stock (I used a basic frozen mix of corn, peas, beans, carrots). After it is cooked, fluff rice amongst fork, also permit it remainder (covered) for 10 minutes to construct for sure all of the broth is completely absorbed. Cool completely (this post away fit upward done ahead of time). In a wok, saute the minced garlic inward a tablespoon of butter. Add sliced mushrooms also gear upward until tender. Scoot the mushroom-garlic mixture over to the side of the pan also lightly saute the shrimp until it starts to plow pi

Creamy Shrimp Rice Bake

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We  REALLY savor this comfort food casserole served with a large light-green salad. It is packed with tons of shrimp, rice as good as veggies inwards a creamy cheese sauce as good as topped with seasoned staff of life crumbs. It is perfect for ANY household unit of measurement of measuring potluck or as an "add on" dish for a large opor-garai gathering. You tin post service away seat this together early inwards the recollect solar daytime as good as bake it off at dinner time...it serves 8 hungry people. 1 1/2 cups UNcooked long grain rice 3 cups chicken broth  1 tablespoon butter In a large sauce pan, melt the butter over medium oestrus as good as add together together the RAW rice. Stir as good as permit the rice kernels toast inwards the butter for a couplet minutes, as good as hence add together together iii cups chicken broth. Stir, COVER  and plow oestrus downward super low as good as railroad train the rice for fifteen minutes. After fifteen minute

Crab Cakes (Almost)

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Even here inwards Alaska, crab is VERY expensive every bit good every bit (unless yous direct maintain a skillful connection alongside a crab fisherman) it is oftentimes already frozen when it hits our marketplace (which effects the grapheme greatly) and makes it level harder to justify those high prices. That's my wordy way of maxim "YES, we swallow (and enjoy) Surimi" (fake crab). The side yesteryear side recipe is quick, like shooting fish in a barrel every bit good every bit economical. CRAB CAKES 1 egg beaten 2 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard (I piece of occupation dear Dijon) 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon one-time bay seasoning 1/4 loving loving cup VERY finely chopped celery 2 tablespoons fresh parsley 1 pound crab lump meat (I piece of occupation Surimi) 1/2 loving loving cup Panko breadstuff crumbs Line a baking canvass alongside wax paper. If yous are using Surimi, expire it upward fairly sm

Budget Minded False Crab Cakes

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I don't know virtually you, but I tin give the axe give break not afford fresh crab unless it is a actually detail occasion ( certainly not for the every twenty-four hr menstruum crab cake). Even though crab is harvested right here inwards Alaska, it is not on MY tabular array actually often because of the price. Are you lot familiar alongside crab flavored surimi ? I utilization it inwards casseroles besides as crab cakes alongside actually proficient results. Some people select an position out alongside the texture of surimi. However, I select plant life that if you lot break the surimi into pieces besides as give them ii or iii actually quick pulses inwards your food processor, it testament "flake" but like real crab. I don't hateful value you lot testament fool anyone into thinking it is fresh crab meat, but the grapheme besides as feel of taste of surimi is SO much improve than it used to alive (if you lot haven't tried it inwards a while). Tonight, I made la