Stewed Shrimps

Name: Stewed Shrimps (Camarones Guisados)
Cuisine: Puerto Rican
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon capers; 2 bay leaves; ¼ cup ketchup; 1 can (1 pound 12 ounces) whole tomatoes; 6 olives, stuffed with pimientos; 6 olives, stuffed with pimientos; 2 pounds poached shrimps, shelled and deveined; 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice; 6 fresh culantro leaves, chopped; 1 pound potatoes, peeled and cubed; 3 sweet chili peppers, seeded, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, peeled, chopped; 1 onion, peeled, chopped; 1 green pepper, seeded, chopped; 1 ounce salt pork; 2 ounces lean cured ham, diced

Camarones Guisados

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

A

2 pounds poached shrimps, shelled and deveined
1 teaspoon fresh lime juice

Americas
Main course
Puerto Rico
Caribbean

Method

Score the salt pork, keeping the rind together. In a caldero or heavy kettle, brown rapidly salt pork and ham. Remove salt pork.
Reduce heat to low, add ingredients included in C, and saute for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add ingredients included in D and bring rapidly to a boil. Reduce he