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Summary: Tips for cooking and blanching shrimp; learn how to boil shrimp and cool shrimp in an ice water bath in preparation for making shrimp pasta salad in this free recipe video from our professional chef.
Karl James owns a small private catering company named CREOLESOUL, which specializes in creole cuisine. He has been cooking for friends and family for more than 30 years. You can...read more
"Hi! I'm Karl James owner of Creole soul catering located in Round Rock, Texas on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you a shrimp pasta salad. Okay now we are going to take our shrimp which we have which we sat by the side here and we are going to add this shrimp to our hot water. We have some boiling water, it is boiling with a little salt and the shrimp aren't going to take that long we would just you would notice that as it goes as it begins to heat up the color would change it would turn to a pinkish color and as we get that done we are going to scoop them out. Then put them directly into a ice water bath to stop the cooking process. This gives it to me it give the shrimp a nice fresh flavor. Maybe a few seconds longer here cause we definitely don't want to over cook those shrimps. Like I said you would notice the opaque color would disappear and it would start developing a pinkish color. And I also said if you want to skip this process what you can do is use the salad shrimp and the salad shrimp they are already clean, they are already cooked all you do is defrost them and use those instead. I like the flavor of what the shrimp would give us. I think our shrimp is pretty much there so we would start scooping these out and putting them directly into a ice water bath here to stop the cooking process. So once we get our shrimp completely out of our boiling water here we are going to move on to our next step. "