Name: Finger-licking shrimps
Yield: Serves 2-4
Ingredients: 2 good teaspoons chipotle chilli powder or paste; a pinch of ground cloves; 2 tablespoons tomato purée; 4 fat cloves of garlic, finely chopped; 1 medium onion, finely chopped; lemon slices, to garnish; flaked sea salt; 100 g unsalted butter; 500 g sustainable raw whole tiger prawns or other jumbo shrimp, heads removed but tails left intact; 1 tablespoon olive oil; juice of ½ lemon; 150 ml sweet sherry; a good handful of fresh parsley, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
2-4

Difficulty
Easy

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By Valentine Warner

Published 2014

About

Varying combinations of garlic, some sweetness and tomato, dusted over with smoky chillies, always deliver. It’s a kind of swanky barbecue-saucy affair that can be thrown together in minutes. Summer outdoors food.

Ingredients

100 g unsalted butter
1 medium onion, finely chopped
4 fat cloves

Method

Melt the butter in a saucepan and gently sauté the onion for about 12-15 minutes, until meltingly soft and certainly golden but not brown.
Add the garlic for the last couple of minutes, stirring regularly until the garlic is tender but not burnt. Add the cloves and chipotle chilli powder or paste, stirring for around 30 seconds.
Flop in the tomato pur

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