Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, taisen's shrimp and crab scampi. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Here is how you cook it. Ingredients of taisen's shrimp and crab scampi. Bring the water to a boil, and add the angel hair pasta.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook taisen's shrimp and crab scampi using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make taisen's shrimp and crab scampi:
- Prepare 1 to 2 pounds of shrimp. ( I used pre steamed with old bay from the store )
- Take 1 to 2 pounds of steamed king crab meat or snow crab
- Make ready 1 butter
- Take 1 garlic powder or garlic cloves. your choice
- Make ready 1 small or medium onion ( you can omit this )
- Take 1 ripe tomato ( you may omit this also )
- Take 1 box of angel hair pasta
- Prepare 1 pepper
- Take 1 old bay for extra spice if you want
- Prepare 1 small amount of oil if you choose
Don't feel limited to adding crab specifically; bay scallops and lobster also work well. Worcestershire sauce, garlic and lemon flavor succulent crab meat in this hearty, versatile dish. Our Jumbo Lump Crab Meat makes an impressive presentation; be sure to mix in the crab meat gently to preserve those beautiful lumps! Just before serving, add crabmeat and heat.
Steps to make taisen's shrimp and crab scampi:
- if using onion and/or tomato. dice both. fry/saute in butter and garlic. add tomatoes first then onion until translucent. remove from heat
- start off with peeling the shrimp if store bought pre steamed. take off tails. if you decide to cook raw or frozen shrimp do that normally and if desired add in old bay for seasoning/spice
- if use using pre cooked/steamed snow crab or king crab pick out the meat slowly and carefully to get big chunks from the legs. I didn't use the body meat just the claw meat.
- put all three of these aside and begin cooking the angel hair
- cook until they are almost done but not mushy as you will want to mix and simmer them with the rest OR you can cook them all the way and use the sauce to cover the noodles later
- add shrimp and crab into a frying pan. add a touch of oil then some butter. heat through
- add some garlic, pepper and old bay to taste
- add drained noodles or keep them separate. your choice
- serve hot
Made it pretty much as the recipe called for. OK, OK, so we like more garlic in things! But we thought this was pretty good and we did enjoy it very much. However, we both decided that we prefer regular Shrimp Scampi (emphasis on the lemon/wine/butter marriage w/o the parm) to this. Will stick with the tried and true.
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