Cannelloni with shrimps
Cannelloni with shrimps
Directions
- Heat the shrimps, waste the water and bring to boil again. Boil for 5 minutes and then cool. Strain the shrimp juice with a strainer and preserve it.
- Clean the shrimps, remove heads and shell and keep aside.
- Cut the spring onions thinly.
- Melt three spoons of butter on a frying pan and saute the spring onions and the shrimps. Finish with whiskey or ouzo.
- Dissolve 4 spoons of corn flour on 1/2 cup of milk.
- Heat 1 cup of milk.
- Use a medium saucepan where you will prepare the filling. Melt 1,5 spoon of butter.
- Empty the milk and start stirring until the sauce starts to thicken. Add some pimento and ground pepper in the sauce.
- Remove from heat and let the sauce cool for a while.
- Keep three spoons of the sauce for later use; to pour over the cannelloni.
- Mix the sauce with the shrimps and spring onions and empty the grated sweet cheese.
- Bring the shrimp juice to a boil and simmer 14 cannelloni for no more than 4 minutes, enough time to soften a bit.
- Cool the cannelloni and then fill them up with the sauce.
- Oil a heat proof baking pan and place the cannelloni side by side. The size of the pan should be medium so that no space is left between the cannelloni.
- Empty the remaining shrimp juice until the cannelloni are semi-covered .
- Dissolve the spoons of sauce you preserved with some water. Mix with the remaining cheese and pour on top of cannelloni.
- Bake in preheated oven (180 C temperature) until the cannelloni become golden-brown on top and are baked.
- Serve immediately.
The shrimp juice is salty enough and has strong taste. You do not have to add salt. So be careful not to make the cannelloni too salty.
Ingredients
- Approx. 600 grams shrimps (equals approx. 250 grams cleaned)
- 14 cannelloni
- 4-5 spoons of butter or olive oil
- 3 spring onions
- 150 grams of grated sweet cheese
- 150 grams of kefalotyri cheese
- 4 spoons of corn flour
- 1,5 cup milk
- 2 spoons of whiskey or ouzo
- Olive oil
- Pinch of pimento
- Ground pepper
- Some salt
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