Puerto Rican Rum Glazed Jumbo Shrimp With Crispy Onions And Avocado Salad Recipes

Steps:

• Heat a few tablespoons of oil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the onion and bell peppers and cook, stirring occasionally, until they start to soften, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, paprika, cumin, red pepper flakes and a generous pinch of salt and cook until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add the wine, tomatoes, capers and bay leaves and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is slightly thickened, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Stir in the shrimp and cook until opaque, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, stir in the lime juice and cilantro and remove the bay leaves. Serve with the rice and more lime juice and cilantro.

Steps:

• Peel and cut potatoes in cubes.
• In a large kettle, cover potatoes with water, add the salt and bring the potatoes to a boil.
• Cook until potatoes are tender; drain and cool.
• Chop shrimp and pimentos into small pieces.
• In a large salad bowl, combine cooled potatoes, shrimp, pimentos, crushed pineapple, peas, mayonnaise, and salt (to taste).
• Garnish with olives in the form of a clock (with one at each hour and one in the middle).
• Chill before serving.

Steps:

• To prepare shrimp, add all ingredients except shrimp to a small saucepan.
• Heat to a boil and reduce by one-half.
• Let cool, add shrimp, and marinate for two hours.
• Cook the shrimp on a grill on in a grill pan for about a minute on each side (shrimp should just lose their translucency)- keep shrimp warm.
• Next prepare crispy onions.
• Heat oil in a deep fat fryer; soak onions in buttermilk, then dredge them in flour, and then fry in hot oil.
• Drain well and keep warm.
• To assemble dish, place fried onions in center of plate.
• Add three avocado slices to corners of plate, and place shrimp on avocado slices.
• Serve while warm, garnished with lemon and cilantro leaves.