Fried shrimp, according to many gourmets, is much tastier and more aromatic than boiled. This dish belongs to the oriental cuisine, it is quickly and simply prepared, and fried shrimps with garlic are an excellent snack for beer or wine.
About shrimp
Shrimp is a very common crustacean consumed by people in large quantities. There are over a hundred varieties of them! They have very few calories, but protein and calcium, vitamins A, D, E, B12, fatty omega acids and various useful trace elements are more than enough. Once in the human body, shrimp have an immunostimulating and anti-inflammatory effect, contribute to the recovery of patients with arthritis, asthma. Shrimp is also good for children; enriched with iodine, they have a positive effect on the growth and development of the child.
Choose shrimp
There are a lot of recipes for dishes with shrimp in their ingredients. And the quality of these dishes directly depends on the freshness and storage methods of these crustaceans. You need to choose them, carefully examining. Shrimps with dark heads, yellowish meat, whitish spots on the shell - all these are signs of improper freezing or storage. When purchasing an ice cream product, you should pay attention to the color: it should be uniformly pink, without frost and a thick layer of icing on top. Fresh shrimp should be uniform gray-green in color, without damage to the shell and resilient in appearance. All these signs indicate that this product is of excellent quality.
Shrimp Dishes
These seafood is consumed in fried, boiled, salted-dried forms, and there are thousands of dishes with their use. These are soups, julienne, casseroles, salads and much more. The most popular and common are snacks. One of the more famous dishes is shrimp fried with garlic. The simplest, fastest and most fragrant recipe includes only three ingredients - shrimp, garlic and vegetable oil.
For one kilogram of shrimp, you need only three cloves of garlic and a couple of tablespoons of oil, you can choose from sunflower or olive. The cloves of garlic are crushed on the side of the knife and fried in oil until golden brown, then removed from the oil. Fresh washed shrimps in shell or thawed are placed in a hot oil flavored with garlic and fried on both sides to the crust - from time to time, from three minutes on each side, if the shrimps were boiled-frozen; and for 5-7 minutes - if fresh. You can salt and pepper to your taste, sprinkle with fresh herbs parsley or dill. Using the same recipe, you can cook king prawns fried with garlic, but it will take at least 10 minutes to cook them. King prawns can be sprinkled with lemon juice upon serving.
Fried shrimp with garlic will be the perfect dish for a romantic dinner with white wine or for a fun company with beer. By the way, they can be fried both in shell and without it. There is one very delicious recipe, "Shrimp fried in garlic sauce." For its preparation, you need to take crustaceans without a shell (1 kg) of any kind and size, the main thing is that they are of good quality, a couple of heads of garlic, soy sauce, olive oil, butter, a little flour and fat cream. Garlic is fried in olive oil until golden brown and removed from the pan. A pinch of flour, butter and soy sauce, all components, a couple of tablespoons are added. The sauce is left to boil a little, shrimp are added and cream is poured. Salt, pepper, lemon juice - before serving. The sauce is so tasty and the crustaceans are tender and juicy that the prawns fried with garlic and cream sauce will become a welcome dish on any table.