Delicious Shrimp

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup chopped celery
• 1/2 cup chopped bell pepper
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers
• 1 (6.5 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 pound peeled and deveined medium shrimp
• 1/2 cup tomato juice

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 10 mins


• heat oil in a dutch oven or heavy pot over medium heat. cook and stir onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic in hot oil until soft, 5 to 7 minutes; add diced tomatoes and green chiles, tomato sauce, sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, and bay leaves. reduce heat to medium low and continue cooking until vegetables are soft, about 30 minutes.
• put flour into a large sealable plastic bag. season flour with salt and pepper. add shrimp to bag, close bag, and shake to coat shrimp in seasoned flour.
• stir tomato juice into the mixture in the dutch oven. reduce heat to low and cook until the juice reduces slightly, about 5 minutes; add shrimp and cook until shrimp turn pink, about 5 minutes. remove dutch oven from heat and let the residual heat finish cooking the shrimp until they are bright pink and the meat is no longer translucent, about 5 minutes more.