{"id":146,"date":"2009-10-15T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.igourmand.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:19:57","slug":"mexican-oriental-shrimp-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igourmand.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Recipe – Mexican-Oriental Shrimp Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend when we went food shopping we found on sales some huge shrimps at a price so low to make a ham and cheese sandwich look expensive. Strangely enough they were actually fresh, or at least freshly thawed, and they did smell like proper shrimps.<\/p>\n

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The nice fresh shrimps we unexpectedly found!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the last year in the area where we now live, due to the financial crisis, the availability of any decent produce has been marginal at best and normally leaves us wondering about what to eat. A lot of times even the dogs do not want to eat what they sell around here. It is one of the main reasons we want to move back closer to civilization as the local stores do not stock anything decently edible as it does not sell at all. Besides chicken which is somewhat edible when you are lucky, normally any meat or fish is a luxury as nothing of quality or that is actually safe to eat is on sale. Judging from the smell in the stores, most of it just rots away, and we are talking major supermarket chains like Wal-Mart or others.<\/p>\n

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Some of the ingredients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In any case we were pleasantly surprised to find very nice large shrimps at a very low price and we bought some for our Sunday meal. I had planned to do some brochettes or something similar on the grill, but the weather did not cooperate. I ended up inventing a recipe on the spur of the moment with whatever leftover ingredients I encountered in the larder.<\/p>\n

\"The
The cooked meal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With what I found it ended up to become a nice pasta in an Mexican-Oriental style that turned out extremely good and satisfying. It was a long time that we had not enjoyed something so good at home, just due to the unavailability of good products at the supermarket.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong>
\n\u00c2\u00be to 1 pound cleaned and deveined large shrimps
\n1 medium \u00c3\u00a9chalotte chopped fine
\n3 chiles guajillos seeded, deveined, and cut into thin strips
\n3 pieces of candied ginger finely chopped
\n3 garlic cloves
\n3 sundried tomatoes in oil
\nA small handful of shelled walnuts
\n\u00c2\u00bd tsp Sambal Oelek chili paste
\n2 tbs of a mixture of dried citrus peels, salt, pepper, and sesame seeds
\nTequila reposado
\nOlive oil
\n\u00c2\u00bd pound dried pasta of your choice
\nSalt and pepper to taste<\/p>\n

Preparation<\/strong>
\n1. Cook the dried pasta until al dente in plenty of boiling salted water.
\n2. Once cooked strain the pasta, return it to the pot, and fill with cold water to stop the cooking.
\n3. After a minute or so strain the pasta again and return to the pot. Put a tablespoon or two of olive oil on the pasta and mix well with a spoon. Cover and set aside for now.
\n4. About 10-15 minutes before cooking the meal, place the cleaned and deveined shrimps in a bowl, sprinkle the mixture of citrus peels and sesame seeds, and add a few tablespoons of the tequila.
\n5. In a very hot wok saut\u00c3\u00a9 the shrimps in a little olive oil. When they start to be opaque carefully add some tequila to the wok and flamb\u00c3\u00a9 them. Return them to the bowl.
\n6. Add a bit more olive oil to the wok and briefly saut\u00c3\u00a9 the \u00c3\u00a9chalotte, guajillos, and garlic.
\n7. Add the reserved pasta, the sundried tomatoes, the walnuts, the candied ginger, and the Sambal Oelek. Saut\u00c3\u00a9 until warm.
\n8. Add the shrimp and warm them up in the mix and add a splash of tequila, and some sesame oil to finish them.<\/p>\n

Lucito<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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