Recipe of rice with prawns

This recipe for rice with prawns has a problem: you're going to drive it crazy, try asking for a second dish and then want to go back to your house so you can prepare it more , repeatedly. You're warned!

Making this dish of steamed rice with prawns is less complicated than you think . The most important for you to be delicious is that you have fresh ingredients and that you are attentive all the time in the kitchen. No talking on the phone while you cook.

It's important that for this shrimp rice recipe you use fresh prawns with your skin, nothing to buy them peeled why? Because after cleaning them you will boil the heads and shells in 2 liters of water to make a stock of prawns that you will use in the preparation.

How to make rice with prawns

Ingredients:

  • Half a kilo of fresh prawns
  • 2 cups of rice
  • 2 liters of shrimp broth
  • 1 medium onion
  • Medium medium pepper
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • A handful of peas
  • Olive oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • A little yellow coloring, if you have saffron, much better
  • Fresh parsley
  • A bay leaf

Preparation:

Fry the garlic, onion and pepper in a large pot. Add pepper, salt, bay leaf, rice and stir for a couple of minutes.

Then you will use the tap water from the shrimp broth that I explained at the beginning. To start you can use 4 cups. Stir and let boil a while, checking if you need to correct the salt. Add the yellow dye in this step, remember that this ingredient is optional.

The water will evaporate, you should never let it dry. Try that there is always a finger over the rice (remember that the dish should be smooth). To do this, you are going to use the broth mentioned above, and if it is finished, use hot water.

When the rice is about 3/4 cooking put the peas, a few minutes later the prawns , and finally the small chopped parsley.

This last part does not have a specific time and it depends on you. You should constantly try the rice, check that it is always smooth but not that it is pure water, and correct the salt so that it does not remain tasteless. When you feel that the rice is ready for your taste, it is indeed ready.Easy recipe that you can make at home.Add pepper, salt, bay leaf, rice and stir for a couple of minutes.

  • Add 4 cups of shrimp broth. Stir and let boil a while, checking if you need to correct the salt. Add the yellow dye in this step.
  • The water will evaporate, you should not Let it dry never. Try to always be one finger above the rice (remember that the dish should be smooth). For this you are going to use the broth mentioned above.
  • When the rice is more or less to 3/4 of cooking places the peas, a few minutes later the prawns, and finally the chopped parsley very small.
  • When you feel that the rice is ready for your taste, it is indeed ready. Remove from the fire and serve it.
  • If you prefer to eat a delicious recipe of rice that is not seafood, try the famous Valencian paella, it is made with chicken and rabbit and it is wonderful.

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