Sunday, December 25, 2011

Shrimp Paella With Fried Plantain.






Ingredients-

Deveined large shrimp -1lbs

Parboiled rice 1lbs

Turmeric -1 or 2 tsp

Achiote powder 1 or 2 tsp

Onions - Chopped

Fresh Tomato - Diced

Garlic - Chopped

Chipotle powder - 1 or 1/2 tsp

Italian Seasoning - 1tsp

Crushed chili pepper 1-2 tsp

Olive Oil - 4tbs

Butter - One leveled tbs

Salt

Black pepper

Water or stock



Method-

Heat up your olive oil and butter @ med heat

Add chopped onion, garlic, tomato, turmeric, celery, chipotle, achiote and let fry for 1 min

Add rice and water/chicken stock (measure your water just like regular boiled rice)

Add Italian seasoning, onion powder, salt and black pepper

Taste and adjust seasoning

Add shrimp

Place pot in the oven and let cook @ 350dgrs for 15 mins or till done

3 comments:

dat one okrika babe...xyz said...

Alhaji are you affilated with this website http://www.prepqueen.com/
they make some kind of sauce..they are using your wonderful pictures to sell their sauce..

Zonia Cruz said...

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Ola said...

Thanks so much guys.

@ dat one okrika babe
I'm no affiliated in anyway with the website and the folks behind it, this is another case of stealing other people's work for profit.

I saw the link on FB and was shocked.

They didn't ask for permission to use the pictures, they just took and the pics and shopped/manipulated my name off the pics.