Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mofongo and shrimp in red garlic sauce. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Place three to five fried plantain slices inside pilón while adding minced garlic and salt. You may add a little bit of cooked shrimp liquid while mashing if the mofongo is too dry. However, make sure mofongo is dry enough to shape.
Mofongo and shrimp in red garlic sauce is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Mofongo and shrimp in red garlic sauce is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mofongo and shrimp in red garlic sauce using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mofongo and shrimp in red garlic sauce:
- Get 6 green plantain
- Prepare 3 lb of shrimp
- Prepare 6 clove garlic
- Get 1 onion, chopped
- Make ready 1 sofrito
- Take 1 adobo and garlic powder
- Get 2 bay leaf
- Prepare 1 bag of hard crackling
- Prepare 1 olive oil, extra virgin
- Get 3 packs of sazon con achote
- Prepare 1 vegetable oil for frying
Fry the plantains in a pan until they're a darker golden yellow. Mix the mofongo by mashing all the ingredients together. Minced garlic is usually mashed in the mofongo with chicharrónes, but since the shrimp sauce is very garlicky; I prefer no additional garlic. If shrimp sauce is too thick for preference, you may add a little bit of water.
Steps to make Mofongo and shrimp in red garlic sauce:
- Cut tips from bananas slit down on 3 sides easier to peel. Cut into 1/2 inch wheels
- Put oil to heat 350-400 degrees.put enough oil to cover plantains.
- When oil gets hot put plantains in dont over crowd. When golden brown n semi tender remove until all are fried.
- In big bowl throw all fried plantains begin mashing. crush the 2 garlic cloves add to plantains add 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Add crackling n keep mashing until all plantains are mashed n ingredients are combine.garlic n olive oil is spread. better to mix with hands
- Get a small bowl put some plantains in and pack down with spatula take out. should have shape of bowl put round side up.
- For shrimps in garlic red sauce
- Boil 3 cups of water i eyeball it. Throw in bay leaf some adobo and garlic powder smash garlic 1/2 onion choped. 1 tablespoon sofrito to taste . Add 1 tablespoon of cornstarch in cold water to thicken add to pot.
- When thicken add shrimp. dont over cook. Pour over mofongo. You can stuff it or eat it plain or with the pork crackling recipe i have here also. Enjoy :)
It is best served while mofongo is still hot. Mofongo Recipe - unripe fried and mashed plantains infused with garlic, and chicharrones (fried pork skin) then assembled and stuffed with a succulent tomato, garlic, onion, shrimp sauce. What I love about food blogging is that I get to recreate recipes from my favorite restaurants. Classic mofongo is made with chicharrón (fried pork rind), but other variations exist. Adrian Tropical also does a chicken version and - my choice - a garlic shrimp alternative.
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