Shrimp Casserole ( Karides Guvec )

Ingredients  (2 Servings) – 50 minutes

½ kg Shrimps

2 bay leaves

1 tablespoon oil

1 tablespoon vinegar

1 tablespoonbutter

2 tomatoes

4  peppers

10 cloves garlic

Directions / How to cook Shrimp Casserole ( Karides Guvec ) ?

* You can either use frozen shrimps or cleaned fresh shrimps

* Gently heat a large frypan and put the shrimps into pan, Shrimps will start to leave their juice, pour 1 tablespoon vinegar over it.

*  When the shrimps juice start to boil, turn shrimps up and down several times in 4-5 minutes. ( Be careful not to crumble them when turning )

* Take the cooked shrimps via a strainer to traditional Casserole clay hot pot ( Guvec )

* Chop the peppers and garlics

* Take 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp oil to fry pan, heat the frypan and ad chopped peppers and garlics, stir untill the peppers turn into a yellowish colour

* Peel the tomatoes, chop them in smal cube shapes and add them to frypan, keep cooking all for more 10 minutes

* Add the shrimps to frypan after 10 minutes and cook 2-3 more minutes,

* Turn off the fire, put the mixture in the frypan to clay casserole pots ( Guvec )

* put a half bay leaf over the mixture and sprinkle some grated kasseri cheese ( Cheddar cheese )

* Pre heat oven to 180 C. , place the pots to the oven, bake them for 15 minutes untill the cheeses are browned.

* Shrimp Casserole ( Karides güvec ) is ready !

Bon appetit!