Slow Cooker Crock Pot

Shrimp is good for flavor and a rich source of calcium. Shrimp quality is further enhanced when cooked with a special shrimp recipe for slow cooker cooking methods. Try this recipe.

Prepare one and half chopped onions, 3/4 cup of chopped celery, 6 pieces of crushed garlic, a can of sliced tomatoes (28 ounce), a can of tomato sauce, 3/4 cups of chopped green pepper and salt to taste for this shrimp recipe for slow cooker cooking.

To have a sweet-sour sauce blend, prepare also a teaspoon of sugar, some crushed red pepper flakes, enough Tabasco sauce, some black pepper, a bay leaf, and 2 pounds of shelled and de-veined big-size shrimp. A cup of soda (like 7-Up) may also be added to this shrimp recipe for slow cooker cooking for a more delicate sweet-sour flavor, but this is optional.

Now, combine all the ingredients in a slow cooker. Mix everything well for a scrumptious shrimp recipe for slow cooker type of cooking. Remember that well blended ingredients is a key to slow cooking. Cover and set on high heat for 5 hours. If slow cooking is preferred, then set on low heat for 9 hours, and then switch to high heat for the remaining one hour.

If more shrimp is desired in the middle of the cooking, add them and cook for another 15 minutes after everything is cooked. For a bigger serving, simply increase all ingredients in proportion to the amount of shrimps desired. It is easy to make adjustments for this shrimp recipe for slow cooker style of cooking. The natural flavor of shrimp makes it easy to correct amounts of ingredients as long as shrimp quantity is enough or proportional.

To add a stronger shrimp flavor, try putting all shrimp heads in a pestle and beat them with a mortar until shrimp juice is visible. Then place in a strainer and wash with some clean water. Save the water used in a clean bowl and pour about 1 or 2 cups of it into the slow cooker. Then continue with this shrimp recipe for slow cooker cooking procedures.

Another way of enhancing shrimp flavor is to use a shrimp cube broth. For this shrimp recipe for slow cooker cooking, use a cube broth of shrimp flavor. The combined sweet, sour, and spicy shrimp flavors in sauce are achieved more effectively.

With shrimp, it’s hard to miss a flavorsome dish, especially one cooked the slow cooker way.

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