Delicious shrimp dish with a Cajun flair! I've spent 6 years perfecting this shrimp recipe. I use shrimp harvested from a local shrimp farm. This is also great with firm crab meat or fish!!
Ingredients
- butter: 1 cup
- white onions: 2 piece (chopped)
- stalks celery: 6 piece (chopped)
- garlic, pressed: 3 clove
- all-purpose flour: 4 Tbsp
- shrimp, peeled, deveined and: 5 pound (chopped, fresh)
- fresh mushrooms: 1 cup (chopped)
- paprika: 3 Tbsp
- salt: (to taste)
- ground black pepper: (to taste)
- red pepper: (to taste, crushed)
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Stages of cooking
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In a large skillet, melt butter and saute onions, celery and garlic for about 45 minutes or until they are cooked down.
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Stir in flour and cook briefly, do not brown. Stir in chopped shrimp and cook for 20 minutes.
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Pour in 2 to 3 cups of water and mushrooms. Stir in paprika and season with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes. Cook for 30 minutes. Should be a thick and have a gravy-like consistency.
