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Ingredients
½ kg of shrimp number 2, frozen
250 g lignuini
1 vegetable stock cube
750ml of water
2 medium-sized tomatoes
50gr of butter or margarine
1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
1 onion cut in 4
1 pinch of chilly herb
50 ml of olive oil
20 ml of ouzo
½ tsp sugar
Salt
Freshly ground pepper
4-5 basil leaves freshly cut
Grated lemon peel
1 onion freshly chopped
Parmesan for serving
Preparation
Spaghetti with shrimps
1.Defrost the shrimps.
2. Clean the shrimp by removing the head and removing the shell, we leave the tail for beauty.
3. With the help of a small knife, we cut the back of shrimp from the tail to the head to remove the intestine, but not to much! Enough to be able to see the intenstine so that we can remove it.
4. We put the heads and shells of shrimps in a deep pot along with vegetable, stock cube and water, cover and boil and simmer for 15 minutes.
5..Do not boil for more than 15 minutes because our broth will become bitter
6. Drain the broth in a bowl and leave it.
7. At the same time we sorinke the shrimps with olive oil, salt and pepper .Put a frying pan on high heat and as soon as it gets warm, add and saute the shrimps until they get color from both sides for about 30 seconds on each sides.
8. Remove the shrimps from the pan, put them on a plate and leave them aside.
9. Put the pan back on a high heat.
10. We cut an onion and add it in the pan Pour 2 tbsp of olive oil, 1 pinch of sugar and 1 pinch of chilly herb Chop the garlic and continue saucing for a few seconds finish cooking with 20ml Ouzo.
11. When Ouzo evaporates, cut the tomatoes and pour them in to the pan.
12. Pour the broth from our shrimps and pasta Stir and lower the heat to moderate Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring frequently and when we see that the sauce has been thivkened, but there is still little moisture, pour in the butter or margarine if we want our recipe to become crumply and stir until our sauce is thicken.
13. Remove from heat, add the shrimps and the basil leaves Pour 1 fresh onion finely chopped and grated lemon peel and our parmesan cheese if we want.
14. We serve it with some olive oil, fresh pepper and parmesan cheese if we want.