Shrimp Festival

Good Evening! Mommy bought 1 kilo of shrimps worth Php300 from baclaran when she went last Wednesday with her Dabarkads. I was thinking of what to cook for dinner tonight, so I checked the  freezer and behold the mighty shrimps! Don't worry as per the vendor shrimps can be kept fresh as long as you put it an a container with water and freeze it until you are ready to use it. So I took the container from the freezer and let it thaw. The Iron Chef blood kicked in, so I decided to cook three diffent dishes out of 1 kilo shrimps. For dinner we have, Lemon-Garlic Buttered Shrimp, Crispy Shrimps in Oyster sauce and Shrimp Tempura. For this dishes, we don't have price comparison from restaurants but i guess some restaurants have these dishes but it's expensive. The 1 kilo gave me 51 pcs of shrimps so we have 18-18-15  pieces for the three dishes.

(L-R-C) Lemon-Garlic Butterred Shrimps-Shrimp Tempura- Crispy Shrimps with Oyster Sauce

 For our first dish, LEMON-GARLIC BUTTERED SHRIMPS, cut shrimps into butterfly-style, deveined and clean on running water. Marinate shrimps for 30 minutes in salt, pepper and parsley (Optional) and drizzle with lemon juice.

Butterfly-cut Shrimps

We have to options in cooking this dish. Option 1 Heat pan, add butter and minced garlic. Saute for awhile so that the butter will have a garlic flavor. Do not overcook the garlic. Fry shrimps, flesh part first. As soon as the flesh part turns red, turn it over to cook the other side. Don't over cook shrimps. Option 2 You can grill the shrimps basting it with butter-garlic-lemon-parsley mixure. You can put shrimps in BBQ sticks for easy grilling. You can use the basting mixture as your dipping sauce for both options

Lemon-Garlic Buttered Shrimps

Dish Number 2 is CRISPY SHRIMPS in OYSTER SAUCE. Dust butterfly-cut shrimps with cornstarch. Deep fry until crispy but do not overcook, drain in paper towel. For the sauce, mix together 1/4 cup water, 2 tbsp oyster sauce, 1 tsp.sugar and 1 tsp. cornstarch dissolve in 2 tbsp. water set aside. Heat Pan, saute minced ginger, minced garlic and onion leeks, pour sauce mixture. Simmer until sauce thickens, add shrimps. Mix until shrimps are coated with sauce. Serve hot.

Crispy Shrimps in Oyster Sauce

For our Dish No. 3 SHRIMP TEMPURA, Remove Shell and head, only the shrimp's tail remains. If you have tempura butter, just follow the instructions in making tempura. Since I ran out of Tempura Batter, I coated the shrimps with cornstarch, dusting excess, dipped in beaten egg and coated in japanese breadcrumbs. For the dipping sauce, use light soy sauce but if it's not available, you can use a mixture of regular soy sauce and water as substitute. Put minced ginger and sugar. I suggest that you prepare the sauce about 30 minutes earlier before serving so the flavor will be ok.

Shrimp Tempura

So there you have it folks, three different shrimp dishes. For the ingredients, I spent less than PhP 500 since some of  the ingredients I used were already available in our house like oyster sauce, cornstarch and others. If we order this in a restaurant, I guess we will spend more that PhP1,000.

Happy Eating! Kampai! hehe