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Shrimp in Escabèche

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Shrimp in Escabèche

Shrimp in Escabèche

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Equipment

  • Sauté Pan (10-inch): Ideal for sautéing, searing, and frying shrimp escabeché. High-quality non-stick coating ensures easy food release.

  • Chef's Knife Set: Essential set includes various sizes of knives for prep work like peeling shrimp and chopping vegetables required in escabeche recipes.

  • Measuring Cups and Spoons Sets: These sets provide accurate measurements needed for the correct balance of ingredients in a shrimp escabeché.

  • Food Processor with Blades: Useful for quickly chopping or pureeing vegetables, which can be part of creating an escabeché sauce.

  • Fine Mesh Strainer: Perfect for straining the shrimp and vegetables from their liquid to achieve a clear escabeché.

  • Dutch Oven (6-quart): Ideal for slow cooking or braising, it can be used if you're making an extended version of shrimp escabeché that simmers on the stove top.

  • Stainless Steel Stock Pot (6-quart): Versatile and durable pot for boiling or reducing sauces, which can be a part of preparing an escabeche sauce.

  • Digital Meat Thermometer: Essential for ensuring the shrimp are cooked to safe temperatures without overcooking them.

  • Citrus Juicer Set: Makes extracting fresh lemon juice easy, which is a key ingredient in escabeché recipes.

  • Large Pot with Lid (8-quart): Useful for cooking the shrimp and vegetables together if you're not using a separate pan to sauté as per traditional escabeché methods.

Ingredients

  • 1 small red onion, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced crosswise

  • 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar

  • 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano

  • 2/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil

  • 2 Turkish bay leaves or 1 California

  • 2 garlic cloves, smashed

  • 1 teaspoon black peppercorns

  • 2 pound large shrimp in shell (21 to 25 per pound), peeled, leaving tail intact, and deveined

Instructions

1

Instruction 1

Toss together onion, vinegar, oregano, and 1 teaspoon salt in a shallow glass or ceramic dish.
2

Instruction 2

Simmer oil, bay leaves, garlic, and peppercorns in a small saucepan 10 minutes, then let stand until ready to use.
3

Instruction 3

Add shrimp to a medium pot of boiling salted water (2 tablespoons salt for 4 quarts water), then remove from heat and let stand, uncovered, until just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Drain well, then stir into onion mixture along with oil mixture.
4

Instruction 4

Chill shrimp in escabeche, covered when cool, stirring occasionally, at least 12 hours. Discard bay leaves and serve shrimp cold or at room temperature.
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