Gamberoni Recipes

Steps:

• 1. In a 10- to 12-inch sauté pan, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat until almost smoking. Add the onion and celery and cook until softened. Add the tomatoes, pine nuts, currants, capers, marsala, fennel seeds, red pepper flakes, and bay leaf and bring to a boil.
• 2. Remove the pan from heat and lay the shrimp in one layer in the tomato mixture. Cover, set over low heat, and simmer for 4 minutes. Remove from the heat, season with salt and pepper to taste, and allow to stand for 5 minutes, covered.
• 3. Serve warm, or allow to cool to room temperature.

Steps:

• HEAT oil in a sauté pan. Add onion and sauté 2 minutes. Add garlic and red pepper; do not brown garlic. Sauté 1 minute. Add shrimp, cook 1-2 minutes.
• ADD butter, wine, parsley, salt and pepper. Simmer until sauce thickens slightly & shrimp turn from opaque to pink.
• PLACE cooked, drained pasta on large platter. Evenly distribute shrimp and sauce over pasta and serve immediately.

Steps:

• For the coral sauce: Peel the tails of the prawns while keeping the heads on. Heat some oil in a saute pan. Cook the shrimp for 3 to 4 minutes. Remove and set aside. Add the gray shrimp to the pan and cook for 1 minute. Reserve with the prawns. Rinse and dry the cuttlefish fillets. Cut it in pieces. Puree the prawns with the gray shrimp, cuttlefish, preserved lemon, 1/4 cup of the lobster stock and the lemon juice. Season the sauce with salt and pepper and then add the Espelette. Check the consistency, and adjust it with the remaining 1/4 cup lobster stock. Puree until the sauce is homogenous, 5 minutes. Pass the sauce through a fine mesh strainer. Check the seasoning and the consistency. Reserve.
• For the gamberoni: Shell the tail of the prawns while keeping the heads on, and leaving the tail shell in place. Store in a cool place.
• For the vegetables: Peel the carrots, and cut into 8 pieces. Peel the fennel. Wash the zucchini, remove top and tail. Cut the asparagus lengthwise into 2-inch pieces. Use a vegetable peeler to remove the hard outer skin. Wash and dry. Peel the red onions and rhubarb. Cut all of the vegetables using a mandolin into 1/2-inch-thick slices.
• Clean the scallions, removing their outer skin. Thinly slice. Cut each of the tomatoes into 3 petals.
• Remove the larger leaves of the lettuce. Cut the heart into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Reserve all of the vegetables.
• Cooking the gamberoni: Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a saute pan. Sear the prawns on each side, coloring them slightly. Cook for 6 to 8 minutes, depending on their thickness. Drain and keep warm.
• Cooking the vegetables: In a saute pan, heat a dash of olive oil. Add the carrots and sweat for 1 minute, then wet with a little bit of broth. Cover and cook. Add the fennel. Cook for 1 minute. Add the onions and asparagus. Cook for another minute. Add the spring onions and rhubarb. Cook for 1 minute, covered, over low heat. Eventually add a little bit of broth while the vegetables cook. Keep covered.
• Uncover and add the arugula and the fava beans. All the vegetables must remain crisp. Adjust the seasoning. Add the tomato petals. Mix gently.
• Finishing touches and presentation: Season the lettuce slices with a touch of olive oil, lemon juice and salt. Place in the bottom of the plates. Place the shrimp on top. Then place the vegetables. Finish with large drops of the coral sauce.

Steps:

• Relieve the prawns of their shells, peeling them away, leaving the tail with its bit of shell intact and pulling out the veins from the head end, rather than slitting the prawns down their backs. Place the prawns in a large bowl.
• Blend the olive oil, lemon juice and zest, sea salt, and aniseeds and pour over the prawns, rubbing the mixture well into each of them.
• Cover the prawns, letting them rest while you build a wood fire. If using the leaves, place 2 prawns on each leaf and, depending on the size of the leaf, either fold it over the prawns, securing it with a toothpick, or place another leaf on top of the prawns, again securing one leaf to the other with toothpicks. Place the packages on a grill over the fire and roast them for 2 minutes or less to the side, depending on their size.
• If you are not using leaves, simply skewer the prawns, 2 or 3 to the stem, and roast them for a minute or so on each side, letting their edges char. In this case, immediately position the prawns, skewers and all, on a warmed, deep platter over which the warm, perfumed oil has been poured, presenting them at once.
• If you've used the leaves, pile the roasted bundles onto a warm platter, passing them about, either already having set a small pitcher of the perfumed oil at each place or sending a larger one round the table.
• In a small saucepan, heat the olive oil nearly to a boil, remove it from the flame and add the remaining ingredients. Cover the pan and permit the mixture to steep for 1/2 hour. Gently reheat the perfumed oil over the fire while roasting the prawns. It should be very warm.

Steps:

• Toast the bread and keep warm. Heat the oil in a wok, then cook the garlic and chilli until sizzling. Turn the heat up, add the prawns, then cook until pink. Remove from the heat, then add the lemon juice and coriander. Season, then serve piled on toast with rocket leaves.