Recipe of Homemade Shrimps in Red Sauce - Mauritian style

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shrimps in red sauce - mauritian style using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Shrimps in Red Sauce - Mauritian style:

1. Take 1 bag shrimps (around 20 to 25)
2. Prepare 2 Onions cut along the length
3. Get 20 cl Tomato puree
4. Prepare 1/4 cup diced canned tomatoes (or you can use fresh ones)
5. Prepare Ginger/garlic paste
6. Get strands Ginger cut in
7. Take Salt/pepper
8. Make ready Oil for frying
9. Make ready Water
10. Make ready Optional
11. Get Coriander leaves for decorations
12. Prepare leaves Thym
13. Get Few drops of sesame oil
14. Make ready Tomato sauce
15. Take Sugar
16. Make ready Chilli

Steps to make Shrimps in Red Sauce - Mauritian style:

1. Remove the shells from the shrimps, deveined them and washed them. Squeeze excess water or use kitchen napkins. Put them in a bowl, add ginger garlic paste and pepper. Mix well.
2. Heat a little oil in a pan and add the marinated shrimps and fry them lightly on both sides. After some 4 minutes, add the onions and mix well. Add salt as per taste or a pinch and continue frying for 1 or 2 minutes and remove in a plate aside (Note: if you add salt at the beginning this will cause the shrimps to gorge out water and lose their juiciness)
3. In the same pan, add your puree, the dice tomatoes, some water and a little oil and mix together. Add salt and pepper. Let simmer for 3 minutes
4. Optional: You can also add 1 chilli and some thym leaves for flavour
5. Check the consistency and add more water if required. Check the taste and if too bitter u can add some sugar. Or if the tomato flavour is not much, add 1 or 2 spoon of ketchup. Add your cooked prawns and allow to simmer on low heat for another 5 to 10 mins.
6. When prawns and sauce are cooked. Adjust the consistency and taste as you wish. You can add few drops of sesame oil, thin strands of ginger and some fresh coriander leaves and mix well. When done, turn off the stove and decorate with remaining coriander leaves and serve hot with bread or rice.

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