Shrimp Medley

Serving for 4-6 

Ingredients

40 Shrimp (Size:16-20) 

1 Bag Frozen Sugar Snap Stir Fry 

1 box Frozen White Pearl Onions

6 Cloves Garlic - Sliced

Flour - Enough for Shrimp (2 cups)

Seasonings: Salt, pepper and Garlic Powder

Chicken Broth (1 can if serving with pasta) otherwise 1/4 can

White Wine  1/4 cup

Optional - Pasta -Your Choice

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• Place veggies in glass bowl and microwave until defrosted.
• Place in strainer to strain out excess water.

    Cook Vegetables:

• In Large frying pan.
• Heat Olive Oil,
• Add Sliced Garlic, cook until golden brown
• Add in Vegetables, 2 TBS butter, cook until tender 2-3 minutes
• Add in Chicken Broth, cook on high to full boil then on Medium for 3 Min.
• Shut of heat and leave on side                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Cook Shrimp

• Flour Shrimp - (Flour, salt, pepper and garlic powder)
• In Frying pan -  Heat Olive Oil (amount -a little more than bottom of pan) 
• Add shrimp add salt, pepper and garlic powder to each shrimp 
• Cook on high heat to sear both sides.
• Place shrimp in bowl.
• In frying pan leave only a very small amount of oil and add 4 TBS butter and melt it
• Then Add the shrimp back in. Sauteing in the butter and 
• Add White Wine..  Saute (you will see shrimp being carmelized )
• Shrimp is done. 

Place cooked Pasta on bottom of glass baking pan

Place 1/2 cooked Vegetable on top of pasta and all the broth and mix together.

Place shrimp on top 

Add grated cheese.

Penne Alla Stefana w/ Shrimp



Feeds 8 people

50 pcs Shrimp  Peeled and Cleaned 6-8 per person.

2 cans of TuttoRusso Peeled Plum shaped Tomatoes.               
  Cut off ends and Slice into chunks.  Keep the tomato juice
   separately.

 4 pcs of Garlic sliced

1/4 cup Olive Oil

Salt, pepper, garlic, sugar

Red pepper 1/4 cup chopped finely

16 oz of fresh mozzarella. cut up in small cubes

1 1/2 cups of cubed provoloni

1/4 cup grated Cheese

2 lbs penne cooked aldente

Sautee Shrimp in Olive Oil with a dash of Salt, Pepper and Garlic.  Cook both sides until pink. Move to another bowl until all have been cooked.  Add more Olive Oil as needed.

 

Slice tomatoes into chunks.   

 In the same frying Pan with the Oil used to fry the shrimp. (This way you get the flavor of shrimp that is in the oil.) Add more Olive  Oil if needed.

Sautee chopped garlic and chopped      Red pepper.

Once garlic is lightly golden brown

add whole chopped tomatoes, 1/4 tsp of Salt and garlic powder. a pinch of blk pepper and 1 tsp of sugar.

 

 

                                      

Add the tomato juice that was left in the cans.

Cook under Medium high heat until Tomatoes are cooked.

Approx 10 minutes. This is how the sauce looks when it is done.

Add Shrimp and cook for another 3 minutes. Use the same Oil and frying pan you sauteed the shrimp with. This way you get the flavor of shrimp that is in the oil.

Fresh Mozzarella Cut up into chunks.



      

Provoloni cut up into chunks

Put hot cooked Penne pasta in a large

serving Bowl.  Pour the shrimp and tomatoes

on top of the pasta and mix together. 

Add in the chunk of fresh mozzarella

 provoloni Add grated cheese and mix together.

Jay and Giuseppe Serving the meal.
NOT!! 
They served
themselves first to make sure they got their
allowed quantity of shrimp!





Broccoli Rabe with Sausage or Shrimp

                                                                                 

For Bariatric Friendly - Do not Add Pasta.  

    

Serves 4

  Broccoli Rabe 2 Bunches

Sausage cooked and chopped 4 links
Tomatoes chopped or sundried tomatoes

Garlic Sliced-  3 cloves

Red bell peppers chopped 1/2

Mushrooms Chopped 4 pcs

Chicken Broth college inn  1 or 2 cans
White Wine 1 tbs

Penne Pasta cooked  1 lb

Grated Cheese

The time consuming part of this dish is cleaning the Broccoli Rabe.

I cook about 4+ bunches of Broccoli Rabe at a time. Need a commerical  14 qt size pot to do this.   Lay them straight in a roasting pan to cool off, cut them into pieces and then freeze portions in a ziploc bag. So, when I want to use a recipe with Broccoli Rabe I can prepare it in a few minutes.

Or of course, you can cook 1 bunch at a time.

 Fill large pot with water little bit of salt and boil water. While you are waiting for the water to boil.   

Broccoli Rabe: Cut off ends of stalk and peel off outer layer. As you can see in picture once you cut off end and peel back it comes off easily. 

Place in large bowl and rinse in cold water.

STEPS BELOW IMPORTANT so that you don't over cook the Broccoli Rabe.     Put all the Broccoli Rabe into the boiling water.

COVER.

When water boils over again.  Take off  Cover. Cook for 3 minutes.

Then strain out into a collander into another pot. to save water to cook pasta in.  Pasta will have better flavor cooked with the broccoli Rabe water.   or you can put another pot of water with  alittle salt for your pasta.                                                                           

  Cook Pasta aldente and strain into collander and rinse with cold water so they won't stick together.   Leave Pasta on side for later use.

  Cooking the Broccoli Rabe this way won't make it soooo bitter .   If you like it very bitter than steam them.

Sautee sausage and chop. leave on side.

                                                                         


Fry chopped garlic in a little bit of olive oil to lightly golden brown. (can use oil left from frying sausage for nice flavor and just add more oil if needed as you cook.)

Add in chopped red bell peppers and chopped tomatoes or sundried tomatoes. Stir and Cook for 3 minutes.

Add in sliced mushroom.  Stir and Cook for 1 minute.

Add cooked and chopped sausage. Stir and cook another minute.

 Add Broccoli Rabe 3- 4 inch lengths  and  White Wine

Then add Chicken Broth.  Once that comes to a boil --

Add in cooked pasta, grated cheese and stir for 1 minute.

Done!!  Enjoy!!!

Instead of Sausage you can use:

cooked sliced Chicken Cutlet, or

cooked shrimp (cook the shrimp with olive oil, salt and garlic powder. Add to mixture right before pasta)
Instead of Tomatoes add sundried tomato (sliced)