Shrimp Pilau

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Shrimp Pilau

Recipe Information
Description: Simple and Delicious Meal that makes happy and healthy bodies! Tangy tomatoes meet rich sweet shrimp with savory bacon with rice! Yummie stuff! Source: Laura and Jay's Mom Serves/Makes:4 or more Ingredients 6 slices of bacon, chopped 1 onion, minced 2-1/2 cups (600 ml) canned plum tomatoes 1 cup (225 ml) uncooked white rice 2 cups (475 ml) shrimp, cooked Preparation Fry bacon in a large skillet until crisp. Remove cooked bacon, set aside and keep fat in the skillet. Add onions to the bacon fat and stir until cooked, but not caramelized (browned). Heat tomatoes in top of double boiler, add bacon and the onion mixture with most of the fat. Blend. Add Rice and cook for 45 minutes. Place the shrimp on the bottom of a buttered oven proof casserole dish. Carefully put the hot tomato and rice mixture on top of the shrimp. Bake at 375 degrees (200 C.) for 20 minutes. Comments This is especially good with a cold crisp salad of greens with mandarin oranges and walnuts and a sweet vinaigrette and a light flavorful yeast recipe of a grits muffin! Pilau is a Southeastern US dish. I got this recipe from a Savannah, GA friend who swears it is the Soul Food of Savannah! Don't mention that to my friend from Charleston, SC!! She will fight you for the rights to authentic Pilau too!

Recipe Information

Description:: Simple and Delicious Meal that makes happy and healthy bodies! Tangy tomatoes meet rich sweet shrimp with savory bacon with rice! Yummie stuff!

Source:: Laura and Jay's Mom

Serves/Makes:4 or more

Ingredients

6 slices of bacon, chopped
1 onion, minced
2-1/2 cups (600 ml) canned plum tomatoes
1 cup (225 ml) uncooked white rice
2 cups (475 ml) shrimp, cooked

Preparation

Fry bacon in a large skillet until crisp.
Remove cooked bacon, set aside and keep fat in the skillet.
Add onions to the bacon fat and stir until cooked, but not caramelized (browned).
Heat tomatoes in top of double boiler, add bacon and the onion mixture with most of the fat.
Blend.
Add Rice and cook for 45 minutes.
Place the shrimp on the bottom of a buttered oven proof casserole dish.
Carefully put the hot tomato and rice mixture on top of the shrimp.
Bake at 375 degrees (200 C.) for 20 minutes.

Comments

This is especially good with a cold crisp salad of greens with mandarin oranges and walnuts and a sweet vinaigrette and a light flavorful yeast recipe of a grits muffin!

Pilau is a Southeastern US dish. I got this recipe from a Savannah, GA friend who swears it is the Soul Food of Savannah! Don't mention that to my friend from Charleston, SC!! She will fight you for the rights to authentic Pilau too!