Prawns with Romesco sauce
A Spanish dinner made with seafood. Ready in about 37 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 27 minPrep (about)
- 10 minCook (about)
- 37 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 11 oz tiger shrimps Shopping tip: Jumbo shrimp, raw (UK: king prawns). Frozen works.
Fresh & other
- 1 red bell pepper Shopping tip: Bell pepper (UK recipes call it pepper).
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 red chile Shopping tip: Fresno or red jalapeño for mild (the recipe takes the seeds out); Thai bird's eye for hot.
- 1 tomato Shopping tip: Fresh or canned both work (14.5 oz can of diced = about 4 tomatoes).
- 8 shelled hazelnuts
- 8 almonds
- 2 sprigs parsley Shopping tip: Fresh flat-leaf (Italian) parsley. Curly works too.
- 1 bread
Sauces & oils
- ⅓ cup + 2 ½ tsp olive oil
- 1 ½ tbsp red wine vinegar
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Prepare ahead - halve the pepper lengthways.
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Remove the seeds and stalk.
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Line a grill pan with foil.
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Put your pepper halves, skin side up, on your grill pan with tomato, chilli and the whole garlic cloves.
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Grill for 2 minutes.
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Turn the tomato.
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Grill for a further 2 minutes.
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Remove the tomato with a large spoon, peel, quarter.
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Remove the seeds.
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Chop the tomato roughly.
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Garlic, chilli and Continue grilling the pepper for 4-5 min, till your pepper plus chilli skins have blackened plus the garlic is starting to soften.
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Wait until cool enough to handle.
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Peel plus halve your chilli, plus scrape out and discard the seeds.
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Peel your pepper plus roughly chop both the pepper and chilli.
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Spread nuts over the foil.
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Grill until toasted.
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Finely chop your nuts and parsley in a food processor.
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Tip into a small bowl.
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Heat 2 ½ tablespoons of oil in frying pan.
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Add the pepper, garlic and chilli.
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Fry for 3 minutes.
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Tear up the bread.
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Add to your pan, turning it in the oil till lightly browned.
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Pulse in food processor with oil, vinegar, salt and the tomatoes until roughly chopped.
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Tip into a bowl.
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Leave to cool plus store.
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Do it in fridge for up to 3 days.
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On your day add your nuts and parsley to the sauce.
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Mix.
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Dish up in a little bowl on a plate using the peeled prawns.
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Supply cocktail sticks for spearing the prawns.
On the side: Green salad
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (10 min)
- Rinse the salad greens. Slice the cucumber.
- Put it all in a bowl and toss with the dressing just before eating.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.