All this dish needs is a few basic ingredients, and a steamer. It doesn’t get much simper than that.
By Kathy Gori
I’ve cooked quite a few fast Indian shrimp dishes over the years and Steamed Shrimp is one of the quickest and easiest.
Steamed Shrimp With Mustard Seeds
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 2 1x
Description
All this dish needs is a few basic ingredients, and a steamer. It doesn’t get much simper than that.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 and 1/2 lb of medium sized shrimp
- 1 and 3/4 teaspoons of black mustard seeds
- 1and 1/2 Tbs of onion, finely chopped
- 1 serrano chili finely chopped if you want your shrimp a bit milder seed the chili.
- 3/8 tsp ground turmeric
- 3/4 tsp of salt
- 1/4 tsp Kashmiri chili
- 3 1/2 Tbs vegetable oil (I use coconut oil)
Instructions
- Peel, devein, wash, and drain the shrimp. Set them aside.
- Grind the mustard seeds in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle. Pour them into a non reactive (stainless steel, glass, or ceramic ) type bowl. Add in 1 Tbs of water to the ground mustard seeds. Add in the turmeric. Add in the salt, Kashmiri chili, coconut oil, and serrano chili.
- Stir everything together well.
- Add in the cleaned, shelled and deveined shrimp.
- Stir them around in the spice mixture.
- Cover the bowl and set it all aside for about 10 minutes.
- While that’s going on, set up your steamer.
- I used a simple 10 buck bamboo steamer.
- Actually it didn’t work so well this way, (like it wouldn’t close) so I put the shrimp mixture on a plate and put that in the steamer. It worked perfectly.
- Steam the shrimp until they’re opaque all the way through. This usually takes about 10 minutes.
- Give the shrimp a whirl with a spoon about halfway through the steaming process, cover them and carry on cooking.
- It generally doesn’t get much easier than that to have something like this.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Side
