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Garnalen Au Curry

A specialty of the Hotel Excelsior, Amsterdam.

Type: Fish, Shellfish
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 1/2 cups 240g / 8.5ozLong-grain rice - rinsed
  Salt - to taste
8 cups 1896mlCold water
  Clarified butter - as needed
1   Onion - sliced thinly (medium)
4 teaspoons 20mlHot curry powder
14 oz 397gFresh or frozen tiny shrimp - uncooked
1/8 cup 29mlBrandy
1/8 cup 29mlDry sherry
1/2 cup 118mlWhipping cream - plus
1 tablespoon 15mlWhipping cream
2 teaspoons 10mlWorcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons 45mlPiccalilly
5   Cocktail gherkins - diced
1   Red bell pepper - half sliced thinly,
  Other half finely diced
1   Green bell pepper - half sliced thinly,
  Other half finely diced
4 tablespoons 60mlMayonnaise
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste

Recipe Instructions

Bring water and a pinch of salt to boil. Add rice and cook for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, heat butter in medium pan and add onion, cooking slowly until transparent but not brown. Stir in 3 teaspoons curry powder, then add shrimp and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Pour in brandy and flame. Repeat with sherry. Stir in 1/2 cup whipping cream and blend. Stir in 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce and simmer for 5 minutes, until ready to serve.

After rice has cooked for 10 minutes, drain it into a sieve. Place sieve over a pot of shallow hot water, on stove, cover, and steam rice for 8 minutes.

Spoon rice into large mixing bowl and mix in piccalilly, gherkins, diced peppers, mayonnaise, and 1 tablespoon whipping cream. Add 1 teaspoon curry powder and 1 teaspoon Worcestershire. Season with salt and pepper.

Serve curry shrimp in center of platter, surrounded by rice. Decorate with bell peppers.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
THE GALLOPING GOURMET with Graham Kerr - (Show # GA-0164) - from the - TV FOOD NETWORK

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