Hot and Spicy Shrimp
A beautiful blend of hot and spicy shrimp which are not only colourful but are great to eat.
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 9 large shrimp deveined with the shell on
- 1 tablespoon ginger blended
- salt
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 3 3 green chillies chopped
- 4 kpakposhito(green Pettie belle) chopped
- 4 4 scotch bonnet peppers (red and yellow) chopped
- 6 small shallots chopped
- 1 stalk lemongrass crushed
- 3 small spring onions chopped
- vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- Clean shrimp, season with ginger and salt and leave to marinate for 10 minutes.
- Heat a wok and fry shrimp in batches to ensure that you are not overcrowding the pan and for about 2 minutes.
- Set shrimp aside to drain and preheat another pan with a drizzle of olive oil.
- Toss lemongrass stalk in oil and let fry for 2 minutes over medium heat and remove.
- Fry garlic until they are just about turning brown and set aside.
- Stir-fry green, red, and yellow peppers with shallots for a few minutes.
- Add garlic back into the pan and then add spring onions.
- Add fried shrimp to pan and mix thoroughly for a maximum of 1 minute.
- Turn off heat and serve hot or warm.