Baked Orzo With Shrimp, Tomato Sauce, And Feta

Recipe Ingredients

1		Onion - finely chopped (medium)
3		Garlic cloves - minced
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Dried oregano - crumbled
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Dried hot red pepper flakes
2 tablespoons	30ml	Olive oil
1/2 cup	118ml	Dry white wine
1 can		Crushed tomatoes - (28 to 32 oz)
1 teaspoon	5ml	Salt
1 1/2 lbs	681g / 24oz	Large shrimp - (abt 36) - shelled, deveined
1 lb	454g / 16oz	Orzo (rice-shaped pasta)
1/2 cup	73g / 2.6oz	Kalamata olives - pitted, chopped = (or other brine-cured black olives)
1 lb	454g / 16oz	Feta - patted dry, and crumbled

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cook onion, garlic, oregano, and red pepper flakes in 1 tablespoon oil in a 4-quart heavy pot over moderately-high heat, stirring, until onion is softened, about 3 minutes.

Add wine and boil until reduced by 1/2, about 3 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and salt, then reduce heat, and simmer briskly, stirring frequently, until slightly thickened, about 8 minutes. Stir shrimp into sauce and simmer, stirring occasionally, until shrimp are just cooked through, about 3 minutes.

While sauce and shrimp are cooking, cook orzo in a 6-quart pot of boiling salted water until al dente. Reserve 1/2 cup cooking water, then drain orzo in a sieve. Return orzo to pot and toss with remaining tablespoon oil. Stir in sauce with shrimp and reserved cooking water, then add olives and salt and pepper, to taste.

Spoon 1/2 of pasta into an oiled 13- by 9- by 2-inch glass baking dish, then sprinkle with 1/2 of feta. Top with remaining pasta and feta, then bake in middle of oven, uncovered, until cheese is slightly melted and pasta is heated through, 10 to 15 minutes.

Source:
"SARA'S SECRETS with Sara Moulton - (Show # SS-1B86) - from the TV FOOD NETWORK"

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