Shrimp Veracruz
A "Quick Supper". Real Food, Fast & Fresh. Budget Friendly. Easy Weeknight Supper. One-Pot Meal. Low Carb. Low Fat. High Protein. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free. All that? Hey, what're you lot waiting for?!
You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for ... Quick Suppers.
"Quick Supper" is shorthand hither on , a tradition of habitation cooking, family-friendly meals in addition to a repertoire of salubrious weeknight dinner ideas.
Since means dorsum inward 2005, Quick Suppers are my antidote to the prevailing tendency for "quick" recipes. You know how Rachael Ray 30-minute recipes outcome inward a huge pile of pots in addition to pans in addition to a bazillion calories? You know how too many quick recipes telephone telephone for $25/pound fresh salmon?
It's e'er a residue but with each Quick Supper recipe, I shoot for two, 3 in addition to fifty-fifty all 4 of these goals:
- ... locomote slow on the budget (with pantry staples in addition to less expensive groceries)
- ... locomote slow on the clock (mindful that hungry folk necessitate to swallow asap!)
- ... locomote slow on the waistline (with lots of veggies in addition to salubrious proteins)
- ... locomote slow on the dishwasher (with lots of one-skillet, sheetpan in addition to other depression dish-count meals)
What's In Shrimp Veracruz? Pantry Ingredients!
In all my recipes in addition to most well-written recipes, every factor serves a purpose. Each 1 matters. Each 1 contributes to the overall dish. It's non that an factor can't last substituted yesteryear something else but when choosing the substitute, it's of import to empathise why the original factor was introduce inward the foremost place.
- Shrimp (duh) Frozen shrimp is slow to locomote on on mitt for impromptu suppers. Fresh shrimp would locomote too.
- Piles of Veggies Onion, garlic, blood-red bell pepper, eggplant in addition to lots of tomato.
- Three Different Tomato Products This is a flavor-building play tricks I learned when translating eating seat recipes for habitation cooks for my (now former) column inward the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Canned Lycopersicon esculentum offers convenience in addition to consistency inward bulk. (I'm of late enamored with fire-roasted canned tomatoes. Anyone else using them too?)
Then dense, tomato-y Lycopersicon esculentum glue helps deepen in addition to darken the Lycopersicon esculentum flavors inward a hurry. (And hey, you lot know how it seems similar you lot solely usage a tablespoon or ii of Lycopersicon esculentum glue in addition to the repose goes to waste? No more! How to Freeze Tomato Paste, it works so-so well!)
But the existent play tricks comes at the end. Toss inward or then fresh tomato! There's only something wonderful nearly the texture in addition to temperature contrast. If you lot desire to gustatory modality this contrast inward a large way, endeavor Fresh-Tomato Chili. - Seasoning Cumin in addition to smoked paprika are a wonderful combo, the recipe calls for only plenty to deepen in addition to darken the sauce, non to holler out their presence.
- Salt! Even with the other seasonings, it's of import to last generous with the tabular array salt here, then many vegetables to low-cal upwards a little.
- The Last-Minute Additions: Fresh Tomato, Olives & Capers Tomato is explained only above. But the olives in addition to capers locomote inward final then they don't actually cook, per se, they only acquire warmed through in addition to add together lovely bursts of texture in addition to saltiness. And besides, olives in addition to capers are what brand this a "veracruz" dish!
You Might Wonder Be Wondering ...
Can You Use Fresh Shrimp? Yes! Frozen shrimp is handy but there's null similar fresh shrimp for big-big flavor. Since fresh shrimp cooks to a greater extent than rapidly than frozen, scout the recipe instructions for details on both.
Are There Good Substitutes for the Shrimp? Yes! A firm-fleshed white fish would locomote well, specially snapper, I think.
Have or then other question? Ask away, I'll produce my best to answer!
What Makes This Recipe Special
- Easy clean-up, cheers to 1 skillet
- Easy stove-to-table serving, cheers to 1 skillet
- Lots of vegetables seasoned to shape a spiced (not spicy-hot) sauce that hugs the shrimp in addition to soaks into the rice served alongside
- Nearly all the ingredients are easily kept on mitt for days in addition to fifty-fifty weeks, the exception is the eggplant, which needs cooking inside a twosome of days of bringing it home
- Filling but depression inward calories in addition to high inward protein, leaving room for, I dunno, how nearly Mexican Mango Trifle (Ante de Mango)? or a tres leches cake (recipe coming side yesteryear side spring!)? Or rest inward salubrious means with a summertime version of Mexican Fruit Salad ...
- Ready to acquire started? Here's your recipe!
QUICK SUPPER: SHRIMP VERACRUZ
Time-to-table: 45 minutes
Makes vii cups
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion, diced
- 1 large blood-red bell pepper, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Salt!
- 1 medium eggplant (1lb/450g), diced inward 1/2-inch cubes
- 2 teaspoons dry soil cumin
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- Salt!
- 1 15-ounce (411g) tin diced tomatoes
- 1/2 "can" H2O (just usage the Lycopersicon esculentum tin to measure)
- 2 tablespoons Lycopersicon esculentum paste
- 1 pound peeled still-frozen shrimp
- Salt!
- 3 tablespoons drained capers
- 1/2 loving cup chopped olives
- 1/2 loving cup chopped fresh tomato
- FOR SERVING
- White Rice cooked with 1 teaspoon cumin seed
In a large nonstick skillet, rut the fossil oil until shimmery on medium heat. Stir inward the onion in addition to pepper, coating with oil; permit ready until only starting fourth dimension to soften in addition to plough color, nearly 5 minutes. Stir inward the garlic in addition to ready for 1 minute. Along the way, flavor with salt!
Stir inward the eggplant, cumin in addition to paprika in addition to permit cook, stirring often, until eggplant is fully cooked. Along the way, gustatory modality in addition to flavor with salt!
Stir inward the canned tomatoes, H2O in addition to Lycopersicon esculentum glue in addition to convey to a boil. Along the way, gustatory modality in addition to flavor with salt!
Stir inward shrimp in addition to furnish to a boil. Let simmer gently for nearly fifteen minutes, stirring occasionally in addition to adjusting the rut equally necessary, until the shrimp is fully cooked in addition to the Lycopersicon esculentum mixture thickens slightly, cooking off much of the liquid. Along the way, gustatory modality in addition to flavor with salt!
Just earlier serving, stir inward the capers, olives in addition to fresh tomatoes in addition to warm through.
Serve with white rice or crusty bread, something to lap upwards the gorgeous sauce.

FRESH SHRIMP TIP Fresh shrimp cooks much to a greater extent than rapidly than still-frozen shrimp. So add together fresh shrimp afterwards inward the cooking process, I'd aim for nearly 5 minutes inward the simmering sauce, correct earlier adding the fresh tomato, capers in addition to olives.
HOW TO TELL WHEN SHRIMP IS COOKED With both fresh in addition to frozen shrimp, last certain to fully ready the shrimp. Here's how to visually say when the shrimp is done. The shrimp volition tighten in addition to coil a bit. The flesh volition plough from gray/translucent to white/opaque. Watch equally it happens, shortly you'll last a master copy at cooking shrimp for only the correct amount of time!
TIMING TIP If you're making rice, acquire it started spell the onions in addition to pepper cook.
MAKE-AHEAD TIPS Best made in addition to served on the spot.
LEFTOVERS gustatory modality proficient but the shrimp becomes increasingly tough when reheated.
VARIATIONS Sprinkle with feta or mini balls of fresh mozzarella? Not traditional but who cares? Delicious!

For a existent shrimp feast, double the shrimp, there's plenty-plenty sauce.
Cooking rice with cumin seed? Oh my heavens. So simple, then good.
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