Grandmother Sharon’s Outer Banks Shrimp Stew with ‘Pie Bread’

Name: Grandmother Sharon’s Outer Banks Shrimp Stew with ‘Pie Bread’
Yield: Feeds 4
Ingredients: 3 tbsp olive oil; 4 waxy red potatoes, skin on and cut into 2cm (¾in) cubes; 500 g (1 lb) shelled king prawns; 1 tsp sea salt; ½ large white onion, diced; 2 spring onions, chopped; 120 g (1 cup) plain flour; 1 tbsp butter; 1 romaine lettuce, finely shredded; 100 ml (7 tbsp) cider vinegar; 100 ml (7 tbsp) water

Preparation info

Feeds
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Grand Dishes

By Iska Lupton and Anastasia Miari

Published 2021

About

Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil
500 g (1 lb) shelled king prawns

Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Start with the pie bread. Combine the ingredients in a bowl, rubbing the butter into the flour with your hands. Season with salt and pepper and slowly add cold water a tiny bit at a time (around 60ml/¼ cup). Mix as you go and stop adding water when the flour firms up and comes together into a ball, but isn’t sticky or wet. Knead for 1 minute and set aside with a tea towe