Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, shrimp mofongo. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Shrimp mofongo is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Shrimp mofongo is something which I have loved my whole life.
Firmly pack the mofongo into a small bowl to mold and turn over onto a plate. This creole shrimp mofongo combines a few of my favorite recipes - my Easy Creole Sauce, Cajun Shrimp, and Easy Mofongo recipes - based off travels I've taken through the Caribbean. This hearty, delicious dinner is an indulgent treat - bursting with fresh flavors, spicy and salty shrimp, mushy and savory mofongo, and tons of tomato and pepper sauce.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have shrimp mofongo using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp mofongo:
- Take 2 green plantains
- Take 1-2 cups canola oil for frying
- Take 1-2 cloves garlic depending on your taste
- Take 1/2 pound large raw shrimp
- Prepare 1 teaspoon olive oil
- Make ready Chopped up cilantro
- Prepare 1 teaspoon lime juice
- Get 1/4 cup onion
- Prepare Adobo according to your liking
- Get 1/4 th Chicken bouillon cube
Mofongo might not look like much, but it sure is tasty. Mashed green plantains with garlic, olive oil and pork rinds (or bacon). Mofongo goes well with chicken or fish broth and can be stuffed with garlic shrimp, carne frita or octopus salad. It can also be formed into small balls and dropped in soups or served directly in a mortar.
Steps to make Shrimp mofongo:
- Start with peeling the green plantains. Cut into 1/2 inch thick pieces. You can start mincing the yellow onions and take your cilantro, wash it and then chop it up.
- Start heating up a frying pan. Fill with the oil and once it’s hot start adding the green plantains. Fry for a couple of minutes until you feel it start getting soft on the inside. Flip them on the other side. Fry for a couple of more minutes then take them out. Put them on a plate lined up with paper towel so it can soak up the grease.
- Take a pan and put the olive oil. Put the 4th of the bouillon cube in the oil. Add lime juice adobo, cilantro and onion start frying. Add the garlic. Fry for about 1 minute then add shrimp. Cook for 2 minutes on each side. Make sure you don’t overcook the shrimp.
- Take a bowl or a pilon and add the fried green plantains. That will be where you will mash the plantains into the round form. Add a small amount of garlic. Mash until soft. Once the plantains have taken its form take it out and put it on the plate. Add the shrimp on the mofongo. 🙂
Add shrimp stock, shrimp, and a dash of salt and pepper. Mofongo con Camarones is best served immediately. In this tasty mofongo with shrimp recipe, I personally cut back on the garlic use while mashing the fried plantains because of the shrimp sauce already including a decent amount. Speaking of shrimp sauce, you will LOVE this tomato-based sauce. Mofongo Recipe - unripe fried and mashed plantains infused with garlic, and chicharrones (fried pork skin) then assembled and stuffed with a succulent tomato, garlic, onion, shrimp sauce.
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