How to fry shrimp in a pan in a shell - very simple and tasty 🦐

Kitchen appliances and utensils: scissors, cutting board, knife, tablespoon, kitchen scales, pan, stove.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Prepare for frying 0.5 kg of shrimp. Cut the shell of each shrimp with scissors along the back to the tail.
   
2. Open the shell and remove the esophagus.
   
3. Also remove the sharp end of the shell.
   
4. Crush 3-4 peeled garlic cloves with the flat side of a knife.
   
5. Heat in a pan 3-4 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
   
6. Dip the crushed garlic into the oil so that the oil is saturated with its aroma. Fry for a couple of minutes over medium heat.
   
7. We spread the shrimp in hot oil in one layer and fry on both sides on high heat for 2-4 minutes (depending on size) - this forms a beautiful crust, and the meat inside will remain juicy.
   
8. Salt to taste. Squeeze the juice out of half a lemon (or lime), sprinkle shrimp on it. Add to taste soy sauce.
   
9. Pepper with black ground pepper to taste, keep on fire for a couple of minutes.
   
10. When serving, you can decorate the dish with herbs and lemon slices.

Useful Tips

• Shrimps go on sale fresh, fresh-frozen and boiled-frozen. A double number is indicated on the packages - this is the number of shellfish per 1 kg. Quality shrimp should be free of dark spots and ice in the bag.
• Shrimp fried in shell are more juicy than peeled, usually such a dish is included in the main category. And if shrimps are intended for further use in salads, then it is better to cook them peeled.
• King and tiger prawns are almost always cooked in shell.
• Frozen shrimp before cooking can not be thawed, they are simply laid in a pan and brought to a medium heat until the liquid evaporates.
• Shrimp frying time depends on their size and condition. Fresh and freshly frozen specimens of not very large size are fried for 8 minutes, and large - 10, king and tiger - 12. If the shrimp is boiled and frozen, the frying time is reduced by 2-3 minutes. Shrimps are ready when they lose transparency and curl up.
• In addition to vegetable oil, when frying, you can use olive or a mixture of olive and cream.

Video recipe

In the proposed video, you can observe the process of preparation and frying of shrimp in shell in a pan - in lemon and soy sauce.

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