Small shrimp pies fried

SMALL SHRIMP PIES FRIED

Ingredients

1/2 pound large shrimp gross, fresh or frozen

2 medium ripe tomatoes

1 sachet of dry yeast

110 ml warm water

70 g flour

2 tablespoons olive oil + 120 ml oil for frying

Instructions

Rinse the tomatoes and cut them in the blender into small pieces.

Pour lukewarm water in the blender.

Beat the tomatoes and the water together.

Pour the tomato juice in a bowl.

Add in the bowl some salt, two tablespoons of oil and the dried yeast.

Stir with a spoon to dissolve the yeast.

Put the flour into the bowl and mix.

You are trying to make a batter not too thick.

If the batter you have made is very thin, add some flour and stir.

If the batter seems too thick, add water and dilute.

Rinse the shrimp well. With the scissors cut all the legs and the antennas.

If you won't cut them they will stick to your mouth.

Keep for decoration of the dish five whole shrimp.

With kitchen scissors sever the heads of the remaining shrimp. You will fry them later.

With scissors cut the shell of each shrimp in the middle of the back in its entire length.

Remove the shells and throw them in the trash.

With a sharp knife scarify every shrimp along the back.

Open the skin and try to find the gut along its back, which is usually black.

With the tip of the knife remove it carefully.

It is necessary to remove it because otherwise the food will have sand.

Cut each shrimp into 5 pieces. 

Add the pieces of the shrimps in the batter.

Mix well so the pieces of the shrimp will disperse evenly in the batter.

Put a nonstick skillet over medium heat.

Pour half the oil in the skillet and let it warm up.

Take a tablespoon batter with three or four shrimp pieces and pour it into the hot oil.

A small circular pie is immediately created.

Repeat this process until the pan is full of small pies.

Take care that there is space between the pies and the don’t touch one another.

Let them cook well on one side and form a red-brown crust and then turn them to the other side.

When they are well cooked on both sides, take them with a fork and put on a dish cover with a layer of kitchen napkin.

The napkin absorbs the excessive oil.

When the oil is reduced in the skillet, pour the rest of it in it..

Dip one by one all the heads of shrimp into the batter and fry them.

Dip the shrimps you kept for decoration into the batter and fry them.

You will easily understand it that they are cooked, because their color changes to red.

A few minutes of cooking is enough.

Decoration

Put in the middle of the platter the small shrimp pies.

All around them put the fried shrimp heads and the whole shrimps.

This dish is a delicacy, Do not eat too much of it because it is heavy.