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Sautéed shrimps with tamarin sauce, sweet potato stew, confit tomatoes

Fish, Seafood & Shellfish, Vegetables and Fruits

Traditional, tasteful and straight-to-the-point dish from Martinique.

Note

Make sure the confit tomatoes aren't overcooked, not a jam but confit!

Ingredients

Recipe for 4

Shrimps

500 Gr

Peeled medium shrimps, tail-on

100 Ml

Tamarin

25 Gr

Butter

1 Unit(s)

Green pepper

2 Tbsp

Honey

1 Unit(s)

Lime

2 Tsp

Tomato paste

1 Unit(s)

Onion

3 Tsp

Xérès vinegar

1 Clove(s)

Garlic

1 Tsp

Chili paste (sriracha)

0.50 Tsp

Cayenne pepper

1 Leaf(ves)

India wood

Sweet potatoes stew

2 Unit(s)

Sweet potatoes

2 Unit(s)

Garden carrot

1 Unit(s)

Onion

2 Clove(s)

Garlic

2 Unit(s)

Tomato

5 Sprig(s)

Flat parsley

2 Unit(s)

Vegan chili

6 Leaf(ves)

Basil

500 Ml

White wine

1 Tbsp

Paprika

Confit tomatoes

1 Tray(s)

Cherry tomatoes

20 Gr

Sugar

6 Sprig(s)

Thyme

3 Clove(s)

Crushed garlic

Preparation time: 60 min

Preheat your Oven at 248 °F

Mise-en-place

Chop the tomatoes and the pepper into small cubes (brunoise).

Extract the juice out of the lime. Finely cut the onion.

Peal and cut the garlic, both for the shrimps and the stew. Crush it for the slow cooked tomatoes.

Peal and cut the sweet potatoes into small cubes, bit bigger than we did with the pepper (macedoine).

Slice the carrots.

Chop the parsley, the pepper and the basil's leaves.
Shrimps

If possible, in a cast iron pan with a little bit of canola oil with a nod of butter gently colour the onion until golden brown.

While stirring with wooden spoon, add the garlic, the green pepper, tomato paste, Xéres, tamarin, the honey, Cayenne and the Indian leaf. Let it all cook together for 5 mins.

Lastly, add the shrimps and the sri racha and cook another 3 to 5mins. Off the heat pour the lime juice. Add slat and pepper if needed.
Sweet potato stew

In a stewpot, colour the onion until golden. Add the potatoes, then the carrots the garlic and the tomatoes.

Once everything has come together after 2-3mins of cooking at medium heat and well coloured, deglaze with white wine. Reduce to dry then add the water. Bring to a boil then lower down the heat for 30mins.

Right before serving add the basil and the parsley.
Confit tomatoes

Tomatoes in a bowl, olive oil in, sugar, salt & pepper. Branches of thymes and the garlic.

Gently mix everything altogether then off on a cooking pan covered with parchment paper, in the oven at 250F for 1h 30mins.
Montage

On a plate, put the stew first, then the shrimps and then the confit tomatoes all over.