Hot and Spicy Shrimp
By America's Test KitchenPublished on March 1, 2012
Time
30 minutes
Yield
Serves 4
Ingredients
Before You Begin
Searing develops color and flavor on the shrimp, which finish cooking right in the spicy sauce.
Instructions
- Pat shrimp dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until just smoking. Cook half of shrimp without moving until spotty brown on one side, about 1 minute; transfer to plate. Repeat with remaining oil and shrimp.
- Melt 1 tablespoon butter in empty skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in beer, clam juice, and any accumulated shrimp juices, scraping up any browned bits. Bring to boil and cook until sauce is reduced to ⅓ cup, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Return shrimp to skillet and cook, covered, over medium-low heat until shrimp are cooked through, about 2 minutes. Off heat, stir in cilantro, scallions, hot sauce, and remaining butter. Serve.
Time
30 minutesYield
Serves 4Ingredients
Ingredients
Ingredients
Why This Recipe Works
We seared the shrimp until just barely cooked through, then set them aside until we prepared the sauce—the shrimp finished cooking through in the sauce. This way, we could use one pan for cooking both the shrimp and the sauce. When building the sauce for our Hot and Spicy Shrimp, we made sure to scrape up the browned bits left in the pan—called fond—with a wooden spoon. The fond added valuable flavor to the sauce. Bottled clam juice created a bright, briny sauce with real depth. Adding butter to the sauce at the end of cooking thickened it to a glossy consistency that coated the shrimp nicely.
Before You Begin
Searing develops color and flavor on the shrimp, which finish cooking right in the spicy sauce.
Instructions
- Pat shrimp dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until just smoking. Cook half of shrimp without moving until spotty brown on one side, about 1 minute; transfer to plate. Repeat with remaining oil and shrimp.
- Melt 1 tablespoon butter in empty skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in beer, clam juice, and any accumulated shrimp juices, scraping up any browned bits. Bring to boil and cook until sauce is reduced to ⅓ cup, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Return shrimp to skillet and cook, covered, over medium-low heat until shrimp are cooked through, about 2 minutes. Off heat, stir in cilantro, scallions, hot sauce, and remaining butter. Serve.
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