For cooking on an open fire, the shrimps are soaked in the marinade. Marinating is a great way to get melting in your mouth, tender and juicy meat of seafood. Shrimp, as well as meat, fish and mushrooms, previously aged in the marinade, are more useful, nutritious and easier to digest by the body.
Marinade covers the meat of the shrimp and stops the flow of juice during cooking, protects from burning, and also prevents the formation of carcinogens, which are released when processed at high temperatures.
Usually, for grilling, grilling or frying in the oven, shrimps are kept in a garlic citrus marinade. But there may be other variants of recipes.
Marinade for shrimp on a grill
Ingredients:
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- ginger root - 3 cm;
- juice of one lime;
- dark sesame oil - 2 tablespoons.
Preparation
We grind garlic and ginger root in a mortar, add sesame oil and lime juice to them. All carefully mix. Shrimp the marinade and put it for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
Marinade for frying shrimps
Ingredients:
- onions - 2 medium bulbs;
- rum - half a cup;
- water - 4 tablespoons;
- mint - a bunch;
- lime - 2 pieces;
- brown sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- ground white pepper - half teaspoon;
- sea salt - 1 tablespoon.
Preparation
From sugar and water, cook the syrup for 3 minutes. Finished syrup is allowed to cool. Remove the zest with 2 limes. From the halves of one lime squeeze out the juice. Cut the onions. Finely chop the mint. All the ingredients are ground with a blender to a homogeneous mass. Shrimps are placed in the marinade for half an hour.
For pickling products, in no case can you use metal dishes, this can lead to an unpleasant color and a completely unexpected taste of the products. It is better to use glass or ceramic containers.
Marinade for king prawns
Ingredients:
- light unfiltered beer - 2 cups;
- honey - 2 tablespoons;
- orange marmalade or confiture - 2 tablespoons;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- mustard powder - 1 tablespoon;
- paprika powder - 1 tablespoon;
- the root of fresh ginger - about 2 cm;
- ground black pepper;
- salt.
Preparation
We rub garlic and ginger root on a small grater. Honey and jellyfish are heated a little, so that they become more liquid and mixed with garlic and ginger, salt, pepper. Shrimp in this marinade should stand for 1-3 hours.
The latter recipe is also used as a marinade for tiger shrimps.
Going to a picnic, then look at our recipes, how to pickle a shish kebab or how to make pickled ginger .