Cook Your Vacation: Jamaican Curried Shrimp Recipe from Couples Resorts

Image: PHOTO: Jamaican Jerk Shrimp (Photo via Flickr/stu_spivack)
Image: PHOTO: Jamaican Jerk Shrimp (Photo via Flickr/stu_spivack)
by Couples Corner
Last updated:: 9:16 AM ET, Tue February 7, 2017

Sometimes you just want a taste of the island life. If you can't travel to Jamaica, you can bring the taste of Jamaica to you!

Couples Resorts is here to detail a special recipe for Jamaican curried shrimp.

The ingredients you will need for the dish are:

• 1 onion, diced
• 1 clove garlic
• 4 tbsp corn oil
• 1 lb shrimp
• 3 tbsp curry powder
• 1 scotch bonnet pepper
• 1 stalk scallion
• 1 sprig thyme
• ½ cup, coconut milk
• Salt and pepper to taste

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For a video guide on how to make this dish, you can follow along on with this video from Couples Resorts.

The first step is seasoning the shrimp with curry, salt and pepper. Next, you will heat a pot and add garlic, curry powder, scallion, thyme, bonnet pepper and onion, cooking for one minute.

You will then add in your seasoned shrimp, stir every so often for a few minutes, and then add in the coconut milk and let cook for five minutes before serving.

For your jerk sauce recipe, you will need the following ingredients:

• 4 -5 tsp - Jerk seasoning (scotch bonnet pepper)
• 2 tsp - Onion chopped
• 1tsp - Scallion chopped
• ½ tsp - Thyme chopped
• ½ tsp - Garlic chopped
• 1 - Small bottle ketchup
• 1 ½ quart - Pineapple juice
• 1 quart - Soy Sauce about "Lee Perry sauce 1 small bottle or half"
• Whole black peppercorn 10
• 2 tsp - Oil
• 1tsp - Fresh Ginger chopped

To make this sauce: First, you will heat oil in a pan with all the chopped ingredients, including the jerk seasoning and black pepper. Cook until the onions become brown and then add in the ketchup, pineapple and soy sauce. Bring this all to a boil and allow to simmer 10 to 15 minutes and then you're good to go!


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