Shrimp Paesano!

I found this recipe online. I didn't know what it was, but it sounded good, so i decided to make it. Since it had the word shrimp in it hahaha.

Ingredients:
1. 1 lb of Shrimp
2. flour
3. Olive oil
4. 2 sticks of butter (yea, this i didnt like)
5. half and half Cream
6. 4 cloves of garlic
7. 1 egg yolk
8. some salt and pepper for seasoning
9. Pasta i used linguine
10. chopped parsley
11. freshly squeezed lemon juice (1 lemon)

For this i only bought the pasta and half and half cream since i've had some of these ingredients from the before dish and at home. Estimated cost to make : $13

There are three parts to this recipe

Part 1 - Shrimp

I soaked the Shrimp in the half and half for about 30 min. After i drained them and lightly sprinked flour on one side of the shrimp. Then i proceeded to pan fry only one side of the shrimp, the flour side.Only cook for about 4 min on med in the vegetable oil (important) While i was doing this i was preheating the oven to 400 degrees. after place the one sided fried shrimp on a cooking pan, fried side down. Put the oven to broil and cook for about 5 min.

Part 2 - Pasta

Just cook whatever pasta to your liking. i choose linguine. boil in a bot for about 7 min, i like my pasta a little softer.

Part 3 - Sauce

This takes like 5 min so do this while you're broiling the shrimp. Make sure that all your ingredients are cold. Take 1 stick of butter and cut in to 1 inch pieces and put in a saucepan with the egg yolk and lemon juice keep stirring, this is important so that the yolk and butter mix correctly, this keeps the sauce to keep the same consistancy. After the butter has melted add the garlic, and parsley. Add in the rest of the butter(cut in 1 inch pieces) And you may add half and half if you want it creamier. I added about 1/4 a cup and found it to be too creamy. Make sure to consistantly stirring throughout this process. After the butter melts the sauce is done!


The shrimp should be done by now, allow to cool a little bit. Mix everything on a plate and enjoy!




I like the plating part a lot :). It looks better than before right? So this dish i really liked the shrimp. It was crispy and soft. I think its the combo of fry and baking the shrimp. The sauce was really rich. too rich and oily. Something i knew, i didnt like how much butter went in to it. But the sauce tasted good. The serving size came out to be about 4.

Taste: 7/10 - wonderful shrimp, sauce was too rich
Cost: 9/10 - Most of the items i had from home so i saved a lot of money
Labor: 6/10 - The shrimp takes a long process but i think it's worth it. Everything else was nice and simple

Overall Rating: 7/10

Improvements: find another sauce that doesnt use a lot of butter. This only tastes good hot, do not store and serve, the crispyness of the shrimp is lost if you do that, i learned that because thats what i did. It didnt taste the same.

Things i liked: i liked the fry oven method, interesting and delicious!

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