Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, potted shrimp. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Traditionally they are being made with the tiny brown shrimp found around Morecambe Bay, known as Morecambe Bay Shrimp in North West England, though any small shrimp can be used. Serve potted shrimp with crackers or Melba toast. Tags: Cheese Shellfish Super Bowl Quick & Easy Cream.
Potted Shrimp is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Potted Shrimp is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook potted shrimp using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Potted Shrimp:
- Take 200 grams Brown shrimp
- Prepare 150 grams Unsalted butter
- Get 1 Bay leaf
- Make ready 1/4 tsp Allspice
- Make ready 1 Cayenne pepper
- Make ready 2 Lemon wedges
- Make ready 1 pinch Salt and white pepper
- Prepare 2 Brown bread, thin slice
It is traditionally eaten with bread. Inhabiting the shores of north Norfolk and Morecambe Bay, brown shrimp are a true British delicacy. However, don't be fooled by its dainty size - brown shrimp are packed with flavour. Josh Eggleton shares his potted shrimp recipe, spiced with delicate ground mace and fiery cayenne pepper.
Instructions to make Potted Shrimp:
- Heat the butter and bay leaf in a saucepan, do not burn the butter!
- Add the cayenne pepper, salt and pepper, allspice and heat for further 1 minute.
- Add the shrimp and simmer on low for 4-5 minutes.
- Transfer to a ramekin. This can be eaten hot or cold, traditionally cold when the butter has set but I prefer it hot.
- Serve with the lemon wedge and brown bread.
A once-common feature at English Teas was a ramekin of seasoned shrimp or mushrooms - referred to as either potted shrimp or mushrooms. The main ingredient is cooked in butter, seasoned and then packed in butter (this is similar to the French confit). Tip the mixture into a shallow soufflé or gratin dish, or a jar, put the bay leaf on top and sprinkle with a pinch extra cayenne. Potted Shrimp Peeling brown shrimps is truly a labour of love, but the results are worth it. The shrimps will need the barest of flirtations with a pan of boiling salted water - a minute is more than enough before peeling.
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