Cooking Shrimp for Tuna & Shrimp with Cucumber Spaghetti

Video Transcript

"Okay the sauce is reduced nicely as you can see, you can see the bottom of the pan. That's okay and all of this in here is all concentrated flavor. What we are going to do now is remove the shells, remove the tuna chunks, add our shrimp so let's get rid of all of this. Just grab the shrimp, the little tuna chunks and that leaves us with that. It doesn't look like much but there is a lot of flavor there. Now we will add the shrimp. These are nice jumbo shrimp. If you want to know what size these are, these are eight 12's. We'll go back to the burner. What that means is for every pound of these particular shrimp you get 8 to 12 per pound. Standard size shrimp for restaurants usually use 21 25's which are smaller which means you get 21 to 25 shrimp per pound. Now what we are going to do is cook our shrimp. We are going to add a little bit of water once they are cooked, reduce that, and we are going to finish with the cream and the basil and season to taste with pepper and salt."