Recipes from Cajun Country :: Cajun Main Dish Seafood
Posted by Darlene at recipegoldmine.com on March 20, 2002 at 08:31:35
The cook who submitted this full-flavored seafood recipe encourages you to have lots of French bread on hand to sop the extra sauce.
Start to finish: 25 mins.
3/4 c. sliced mushrooms
1/2 c. chopped onion
1/4 c. chopped green, red, or yellow sweet pepper
2 Tbsp. chopped shallots
2 tsp. bottled minced garlic
1 tsp. snipped fresh parsley
2 Tbsp. butter or butter-replacement
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes
1/8 tsp. salt
Dash ground red pepper
1 egg
1/3 c. milk
8 to 12 jumbo shrimp (about 12 oz.), peeled and deveined
1/3 c. flour
1/4 c. butter or butter-replacement
French bread
In a large skillet, cook mushrooms, onion, sweet pepper, shallots, garlic, and parsley in the 2 Tbsp. hot butter until tender. Add undrained tomatoes, salt, and ground red pepper. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered or without a lid, about 10 mins. or until desired consistency.
Meanwhile, in a shallow bowl, combine egg and milk. Dip shrimp into egg mixture, then into flour to coat. In another skillet, fry shrimp in the 1/4 c. hot butter about 5 mins. or until shrimp are opaque and coating is golden and crisp, turning once. Transfer tomato mixture to a shallow serving dish; arrange shrimp in tomato mixture.
Serve with French bread.
Makes 4 servings.
Per serving: 344 cal., 18 g total fat (10 g sat. fat), 96 mg chol., 614 mg sodium, 32 g carbo., 2 g fiber, and 13 g pro. Dietary exchanges: 2 starch, 1-1/2 very-lean meat, 3 fat
