Yields:
6 Servings
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 Mins
Cook Time:
30 Mins
Total Time:
50 Mins
This is a dish that hits home on so many levels. I am from Louisiana and love all the different styles of food that our state has to offer. Shrimp creole is a dish that my mom and aunt used to make quite often when I was a child growing up. We grew up eating various dishes but this is for sure one of my favorite dishes. You can make this dish as spicy as you want. You can use crawfish if you want instead of shrimp or any other kind of seafood that you want to use, just be mindful of the cook times.
Ingredients
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Shrimp Stock
- Shrimp Creole
Instructions
- Sautee in the 1/4 cup of oil the onions, garlic, peppers, and celery. Sautee on low heat until vegetables are tender. This should take about 10 minutes.
- Add the paprika and cook for an additional minute. Add the tomatoes, 1 1/2 cups stock, salt, pepper, hot sauce, and bay leaf. Bring this mixture to a boil, and reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Next add your shrimp. simmer until the shrimp turn pink. Thicken the shrimp creole with the remaining 1/2 cup of stock and corn starch. Remove the bay leaf.
- Serve this dish hot and over rice.
Notes
This recipe is such a good recipe that you can adjust the flavors to your taste and put different kinds of seafood in them. Just be mindful of the cook times. You don't want to over cook the seafood.