Seafood Chowder

Easy, delicious seafood chowder.  This is specially for all the seafood lovers.  This delight treat is prepared with a bag of seafood mix, a pound of shrimps, and a  bag of calamari.  So if you love soup, love seafood, here is a perfect dish for you!

Serving size: 4-6
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Money Savings: $12.00
Approximate calories per serving: 222.

Ingredients:
1 bag frozen mix seafood
1 bag frozen calamari/squid
1 bag frozen x-large raw shrimp (pealed)
adobo
¼ cup slice bacon
4 cups water
1 cup of chopped onions
5 red medium potatoes diced
1/3 cup butter
4 tbsp dry/fresh parsley
2 quart milk
4 tbsp all purpose flour

Directions:
Place seafood mix, calamari/squid, and shrimp on a bowl sprinkle a bit of adobo on the seafood.
Place a small frying pan on medium heat with the bacon fry it well until crispy.
Place the water in medium-large cooking pot on medium heat. Place potatoes, butter, and parsley.
Place in the water mixture the cooked bacon.
Place all the seafood into the pot.
Pour the milk into a small bowl and place flour into the milk mixing quickly until thicken a little (if you need to place additional flour do so).  Just as long as it thicken a little.
Once the potatoes are soft or almost soft place the milk mixture into the water. Let that boil one more time turn the heat off.

Shrimp Creole

My mom came across this recipe a long time ago when we lived in New Orleans. Now, since I have acquire her cooking skills I know prepare it.  This Shrimp Creole taste divine.  The Cajun spices blend in with the wonderful shrimp flavors.  This dish is so amazing your guest will be asking for seconds.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Money Savings: $15.00
Approximate Calories per serving: 315

Ingredients:
1 ½ -2 lbs large-XL shrimps
4 slices of thick bacon cut into small pieces
2 tbsp blackening seasoning
1 cup diced tomatoes
¾ cup white wine
2 tbsp Crushed red pepper flaxes
½ cup scampi sauce 
1 lemon
¼ bunch parsley
2 tbsp minced garlic


Directions:
Place shrimp in a bowl and sprinkle with blackening seasoning. Set aside.
Place bacon in a large pan on medium heat 5-7 minutes or until bacon is almost done.
Add shrimp to bacon cook for 1 minute.  Stir in tomatoes, wine, garlic, and pepper flaxes. Cook for about 2-3 minutes or until shrimps turn pink.
Stir in the scampi sauce and lemon juice top with parsley.

Tip:
You can serve it with angle hair pasta or white rice.

Salmon With Peanut Sauce

This is a magnificent dish. The peanut sauce bring out a swirl of flavors in your taste buds.  The mildness of the salmon contrast perfectly with the peanut sauce.  It actually takes about five minutes to get the fish ready and in the oven.  The sauce is very easily  prepared as well.  Your diner guest will talk about this perfect dish for days.  It is definitely a winner.

Serving size: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Money Savings: $20.00
Approximate calories per serving: 294

Ingredients:
Adobo
Complete Seasoning
Garlic Powder
4 8oz. Salmon Fillets
1 tbsp olive oil

Sauce ingredients:
2 tbsp smooth peanut butter
2 tbsp soy sauce
1-2 cloves garlic thinly chopped
¼ cup water
1 tbsp brown sugar
Juice from ½ lemon
1/3 cup green onion thinly chopped

Directions:
Sprinkle adobo, complete seasoning and garlic powder on to salmon. Place the salmon on a grilling pan/backing dish.  Squirt olive oil on top of the salmon and place it in the oven for 350 for 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine peanut butter, soy sauce, garlic, water, sugar, lemon into a saucepan and bring to medium heat until peanut butter has melted and sauce has thicken.  Pour sauce over salmon and garnish with green onions.

Shrimp Kabob

Don’t know what to do with your shrimps? Why not shrimp kabob.  They are easy to prepare, it only requires a few ingredients and it has great tasting as well.  Best of all they are cooked and done in no time and your guest and family would think you spend the entire day cooking.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Money Savings: $10.00
Approximate calories per serving 220.  

Ingredients:
1 ½ lbs. uncooked XL/jumbo shrimps peeled/unpeeled (your choice)
Kabobs sticks bamboo/steel
1 medium size green bell pepper cut in squares
1 medium size red bell pepper cut up in squares
1 large onion cut up in fourths
Adobo
Complete seasoning
Garlic powder
Cooking spray

Directions:
Place the shrimp in sticks alternating a shrimp and a piece of vegetable. Sprinkle adobo, complete seasoning and garlic powder. Place spray oil on the kabobs and place on the grill on medium heat. Until they are ready or shrimps turn completely orange.


Tips:
You can use all types of vegetables for example, mushrooms, green squash and yellow squash.

Paella

My husband and I love seafood and what a better way to incorporate all these marvelous flavors than in a tasteful paella.  Paella is a famous Spanish dish with rice, sea food and chicken.  What gives the rice a particular delightful seafood taste? It is the saffron. If you are a seafood lover give it a try.  I am positive you will love it!

Serving Size: 2
Preparation Time: 25 minutes
Cooking Time: 35 minutes
Money Savings: $20.
Approximate calories per servings: 350

Ingredients:
4 Tbsp olive oil
1 lbs chicken breast cut in cubs
2 tbsp garlic minced
1 cup Arborio rice
½ tsp saffron
½ cup tomatoes diced
½ cup dry white wine
2 cups chicken broth
1 red pepper cut in strips
1 artichoke heart
½ cup frozen peas
6 large raw peeled/unpeeled (your choice) shrimps
1 16oz bag artificial crab meat
8-10 clams
1 ½  lbs calamari
2 tilapia filets in cubes
Adobo
Garlic powder
Complete seasoning

Directions:
In a large bowl place all the sea food together sprinkle (very little) adobo, garlic powder, complete seasoning.
Heat oil on medium heat.  Add chicken pieces and sauté until almost done. Add the rice and saffron, string to coat with oil, stir about one minute.
Add tomatoes, wine and broth.  Bring to a boil.
Add the pepper strips, artichoke heat and peas. Reduce heat to low simmer for 5 minutes.
Add all the seafood into the rice for and keep cooking for another 15 minutes or until rice is done (until grains are open and soft).

Coconut Shrimp

These crispy coconut shrimps are easy to prepare and would leave a delightful taste in your palate.  This is another great recipe for your football game party or any other gatherings. Mmmm!! There is a taste of tropics in every scrumptious shrimp.  Every seafood lover in your crowed will absolutely love them.  I guarantee it!

Serving Size: 12-15
Preparation Time: 25 minutes
Cooking Time: 25 minutes
Money Savings: $15.00
Approximate calories per servings: 150 per two shrimps

Ingredients:
2 lbs jumbo uncooked shrimps peeled
Complete seasoning 
2 eggs
¼ cup all purpose flour
2 cups coconut flakes
½ cup oil
 
Directions:
Place shrimp on a blow sprinkle complete seasoning. Set aside.
In a small bow scramble eggs.
Combine flour and coconut flakes in another bowl.
Take the shrimp by the tail and dip it in the eggs then in the mixture of flower and flakes. Do this to all the shrimps. Place in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes.  
On a large frying pan place oil on medium heat wait until the 350 degrees or when sprinkling flour it sizzles.
Fry the shrimps turning once or twice until fully brown.

Bacon Wrapped Shrimp

Bacon Wrapped Shrimps are one of my favorite appetizers.  This is yet another great dish for your hungry guests at your supper bowl party.  They are low in fat because they are prepared with turkey bacon.  This will surly a touch-down for your guests and they’ll be asking for more.

Serving Size: 12-15
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Money Savings: $25.00
Approximate Calories per servings: 168 per 2 shrimps

Ingredients:
2 lbs jumbo uncooked shrimps peeled
Complete seasoning 
1 pkg. turkey bacon cut in half
30 Tooth picks

Directions:
Place shrimps in a bowl sprinkle complete seasoning.
Wrap the ½ of strip of bacon around the shrimp holding it with the tooth pick to this with all the shrimp.
Place a large frying pan on a medium heat and place the shrimps on the pan (you do not need oil) until shrimp has turned orange and the bacon is brown on both sides.

Tips:
An easy way to peal http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_peel_and_devein_shrimp/





 

Butter Shrimps

Shrimp, peppers, onions, fried in butter.  This is my husbands favorite shrimp dish.  I tried this recipe when we were newlyweds and he loved it ever since. I have also serve it several times to our guests and always a success. It is a snap to double for guests and guests always rave about it.

Serving size: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25-30 minutes
Money Savings: $12.00
Approximate calories per serving: 80
To double serving double ingredients.

Ingredients:
1 lbs. large/jumbo raw shell on shrimp washed
Adobo
Complete Seasoning
Garlic powder
2 envelopes of sazon
4 tbsp butter
1 tsp garlic minced
½ small green pepper chopped
½ small onion chopped

Directions:
Place the shrimps in a bowl, sprinkle adobo, complete seasoning, garlic powder and sazon.
On medium heat on a large skillet place butter, garlic minced, pepper, and onions sauté.
Pour the shrimps over the butter mixture lower the heat to low let it fry mixing it once or twice until shrimps are red and crispy.

Broil Lobster

Lately live lobsters have been on sale for about $6.00 per lbs. That is a great buy. Unfortunately the reason we don’t have lobster more often is because lobster is so very pricey. In most restaurants they serve lobster tale; that is the reason I love to prepare my own lobster. This is a delicacy which most seafood lovers find to be the most tastiest. My broil lobster is prepared with plenty of garlic, cilantro, bread crumbs and butter. The rich taste of my lobster is unbelievable. Keep in mind if you try this delectable dish of lobster you will never forget the heavenly taste.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Money Savings: $15.00
Approximate Calories per serving: 250
Ingredients:
2 1 ¼ lbs live lobsters
Adobo
4 tbsp melted butter
¼ cup lemon juice
4 tbsp garlic minced
½ bushel of fresh cilantro thinly chopped
½ cup bread crumbs

Directions:
Slice the lobsters in half rinse thoroughly. Place in backing pan. Lobster’s flesh should be facing up. Sprinkle adobo all over the lobster even on the shell. On a small bowl place the butter, lemon juice, cilantro and garlic and mix together. With a spoon spoon-out this mixture and stuffed the lobster with this mixture. Then sprinkle bread crumbs all over the lobster. Broil the lobster for about 25 minutes on 450 or when the bread crumbs start getting brown then it ready.

Crab Soup

This is a great taste spoonful, rich Caribbean dish. It’s base with coconut milk, add green bananas and yucca. This soup has a very good flavor. The shellfish in this wonderful dish is perfect enough to please any seafood lover in your family.
　
Serving Size: 4
Preparation Time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Money Savings: $25.00
Approximate calories per serving: 520

Ingredients:
1 quart of water
1 small red pepper chopped
1 small onion chopped
Adobo
Complete seasoning
1 package sazon
Garlic powder
3 cans coconut milk unsweetened
2 medium to small size yuccas (if frozen 5 pieces)
4 green bananas cut in four pieces
8 live crabs or uncooked
½ a bush cilantro

Directions to clean crabs:
On-shell them and take the guts out.

Directions:
On medium heat place a large pot with water. Place pepper and onion in the water, sprinkle adobo, complete seasoning, sazon and garlic powder. Let the water boil once it starts to boil place the yucca and one can of coconut milk. Let that boil again. Once its boiling add the bananas and another can of coconut milk. Let it boil again, once that is boiling place the crabs and the last can of coconut milk, add cilantro let it boil for the last time. Cabs should turn red all the vegetables should be soft. It is ready.