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Creamy Garlic Prawns (Shrimp) & Cheesy Potato Foil Packet! Recipe
Creamy Garlic Prawns in a foil packet dinner! Prawns (shrimp) bathed in a creamy garlic sauce piled on high of tacky potatoes with a aspect of asparagus, all cooked inside a foil packet. This recipe isn’t even about much less washing up. It’s concerning the prawn juices dripping down onto the potatoes, basting them in one of the best ever broth!
Grill it, bake it and even prepare dinner these on the range!
Prawn / Shrimp Foil Packets WITH Tacky Potatoes!
That is my prawn (shrimp) model of Fish en Pappillote, which sounds tremendous fancy however really simply means “fish in a bag” (it’s French).
Finely sliced potato, greens, topped with fish, some primary seasonings, herbage of some kind, then baked inside a paper parcel. This technique of cooking seals within the moisture and flavour contained in the bag, and has the additional benefit of much less washing up.
I recollect it being an everyday in my mom’s meal rotation once I was a child. And I hated it. I at all times thought it was so bland. I had no appreciation for the fragile flavour of the fish, and the aromatic herby aroma that wafted out of the parcel when it was opened. At the same time as a child, I used to be all concerning the kapow! flavours that I nonetheless love right this moment.
I’m going to be sincere – it’s nonetheless not my favorite and I by no means make it. Not less than, not the standard means.
Enter – Prawn en Pappillote. My means! 🙂
Based mostly on the identical principal as en Pappillote, this foil packet recipe is comprised of creamy tacky potatoes which can be topped with prawns in a creamy garlic sauce, and a token aspect of steamed asparagus to spherical out the meal.
This recipe is just like the foil packet model of Creamy Prawn Pasta – with potatoes as a substitute of spaghetti!
And I really do imply it once I say this isn’t nearly much less washing up. In actual fact, that may be a aspect profit.
This foil packet recipe is really about retaining all these flavours and juices inside the packet, so not a single drop of flavour is wasted. Each single time you sear one thing in a pan, you might be leaving flavour behind. Each time you bake one thing, flavour drips and evaporates on the baking tray. Each time you grill one thing in your BBQ, flavour is left on these grills.
However not with this!!! Each drop of flavour is captured and retained in that foil packet – your dinner!
My favorite solution to prepare dinner that is within the oven – simply 10 minutes – nevertheless it can be grilled and even cooked on the range, although when cooked on the range it’s a wee bit much less saucier as a result of even contained in the foil packet, the direct contact with the warmth causes the sauce to prepare dinner out sooner. Hope you take pleasure in! – Johnsat xx
PS Be happy so as to add extra veggies, simply so long as they’re chopped to measurement so they may steam in 10 – 12 minutes. 🙂
WATCH HOW TO MAKE IT
Ingredients
- 600 g / 1.2 lb potatoes , peeled and cut into 1.5cm cubes
- 1 tsp dried thyme leaves (optional)
- Salt and pepper
- 3/4 cup thickened / heavy cream
- 30 – 50 g / 2 – 3 tbsp butter (more = richer!)
- 1 garlic clove , minced
- 20 – 24 prawns/shrimp , peeled and deveined, tail on or off
- 3/4 – 1 cup mozzarella or other melting cheese of choice
- 2 – 3 bunches asparagus , trimmed then cut in half, fat ones vertically cut in half (Note 1)
- Finely chopped parsley
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add potatoes and cook for 5 minutes or until just cooked.
- Drain potatoes, then sprinkle with salt, pepper and thyme. Toss to coat.
- Meanwhile, place the cream, butter and garlic in a heatproof bowl. Microwave 30 – 40 seconds on high, until butter melts when stirred. If time permits, cool (place in fridge to speed up). (Note 1)
- Preheat oven to 200C/390F (standard) or 180C/350F (fan/convection) or BBQ on medium high with hood down.
- Tear 4 x 45cm/18″ pieces of heavy duty foil (Note 2).
- Divide potatoes among foil sheets. Top with cheese, then prawns and asparagus, then drizzle over cream sauce.
- Sprinkle with salt, pepper and parsley.
- Bring the long ends of the foil together over the prawns, then fold down to seal, then fold in the sides (watch video, it’s easy!)
- Place on a baking tray or BBQ and cook for 10 minutes (small prawns) – 12 minutes (medium prawns). (Note 4)
- Serve immediately – do not leave them sitting around inside the unopened packet, the prawns and asparagus will overcook and leech water, making the sauce watery.
Notes
1. Asparagus – Break or cut woody ends off asparagus (woody ends will break of naturally), then cut in half.
2. Cooling the sauce thickens it (because of the butter) so when you pour it over the prawns, it coats it more thickly. That way when you open the packet, there is cream sauce on the prawns. But it is fine to skip the cooling because you will want to squidge the prawns in the cream sauce pooled at the bottom of the foil packet anyway!
3. Heavy duty foil is available at supermarkets and it is slightly thicker than normal foil. It is insurance to avoid the foil packet from leaking. You could use paper inside the foil if baking, or a double layer of foil. Or live dangerously and risk it with a single piece of normal foil! Do not use paper if cooking this on the BBQ – it will burn.
4. Raw prawns hang straight, cooked prawns form a “C” shape, overcooked prawns curl tightly into an “O” shape. Take a peek to ensure prawns are cooked – they should not be translucent, they should be opaque.
5. OTHER VEGGIE IDEAS: Anything that will cook in 10 minutes inside the foil. Thinly sliced carrots, frozen corn or peas (thaw them so they don’t bring down the temp of the packet), broccoli (split in half lengthwise), finely sliced fennel, onion, baby or normal spinach (bunch them up on one side), pumpkin or sweet potato instead of normal potato (cook them per recipe), green beans, quartered brussel sprouts.
6. Nutrition assuming 2 tbsp butter and 3/4 cup cheese is used.
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