Shrimps are one of the very popular ingredients in the seafood recipes. They are rich in nutrition, easy and fast to cook with different ways. Shrimps are combined suitably with spices and other ingredients for good dishes like tamarind sauce as an example.
In the seafood recipes, tamarind sauce is usually used to contribute the food flavor. Especially Asian recipes, tamarind sauce is one of the very nice sauces that used widely. And shrimps or prawns are good in the combination with this sauce. It is ease to pleased your taste in the case you love the sour flavor mixed in the seafood recipes.
If you have sometimes to read about traditional medicine mentioned in some countries in Asia, tamarind sauce is not simple a sauce for sour flavor. It is believed that the tamarind sauce may help to balance the flavor and nutritive value in the seafood recipes like shrimps or prawns. This sauce is also used to decrease the fishy smell of the seafood.
It is simple to recognize how suitable the tamarind sauce in the shrimps and prawns when you enjoy them. The balanced flavor is easy to be known by your tongue when you taste the dish. Deeply inside of the dishes, shrimp or prawn are high in cholesterol while tamarind is rich in vitamins and fiber. It seems to be reasonable for those ingredients combined together to create the and delicious and nutritive and healthy dishes.
Prepared and cooking time: 25 minutes
Serve: 3-4 servings
Ingredients:
- 300 g shrimp
- ¼ teaspoon of salt
- ½ cup of cold water
- 2-3 spoon of tamarind sauce ( Please see how to make the tamarind sauce here)
- 1 spoon of chili sauce
- 1 teaspoon of margarine (butter unsalted or cooking oil may be used instead)
- Minced onion, minced garlic
- Minced scallion, coriander and ground pepper
Directions:
- Heat your pan, smelt the margarine to smelt it. Add the minced onion and garlic to be cooked.
- Add the shrimps into the pan and stir them gently. Don’t forget to add some salt to the shrimp. After 3 minutes, add your tamarind sauce into the pan, stir them gently again. The time to cook is about 3-5 minutes continuously. In the case that the shrimps are so stick by the sauce, you can add 2 or 3 spoon of water. Continue to cook till the time the sauce boiling, turn off your stove.
- Spoon the shrimp cooked into a dish, add some ground pepper, and then minced scallion, also coriander.
- Enjoy the warm shrimps in tamarind sauce together with steamed rice or bread sliced. It is light sour and sweet, spice enough to make your dish be warm in the tongue.
