Garnalen Au Curry Recipe - Cooking Index
A specialty of the Hotel Excelsior, Amsterdam.
Type: Fish, Shellfish| 1 1/2 cups | 240g / 8.5oz | Long-grain rice - rinsed |
| Salt - to taste | ||
| 8 cups | 1896ml | Cold water |
| Clarified butter - as needed | ||
| 1 | Onion - sliced thinly (medium) | |
| 4 teaspoons | 20ml | Hot curry powder |
| 14 oz | 397g | Fresh or frozen tiny shrimp - uncooked |
| 1/8 cup | 29ml | Brandy |
| 1/8 cup | 29ml | Dry sherry |
| 1/2 cup | 118ml | Whipping cream - plus |
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Whipping cream |
| 2 teaspoons | 10ml | Worcestershire sauce |
| 3 tablespoons | 45ml | Piccalilly |
| 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 | 60ml | Mayonnaise |
| Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste |
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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