Prawns in Slow Cooker

[vivandorron]

Is there a recipe for Frozen Prawns to be cooked in a Slow Cooker and then served as a Main Dish.

Incidentally, the word 'recipe' was originally 'receipt'. Check it out in your dictionary.

[BBWCHATT]

Ron - this is not exactly what you were asking for but you might come up with something after you read it :) It is Cajun soul food :)

Jambalaya

1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cut into 1 inch cubes
1 pound andouille sausage, sliced
1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice
1 large onion, chopped
1 large green bell pepper, chopped
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chicken broth
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons dried parsley
2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 pound frozen cooked shrimp without tails
In a slow cooker, mix the chicken, sausage, tomatoes with juice, onion, green bell pepper, celery, and broth. Season with oregano, parsley, Cajun seasoning, cayenne pepper, and thyme.
Cover, and cook 7 to 8 hours on Low, or 3 to 4 hours on High. Stir in the shrimp during the last 30 minutes of cook time.
Serve over rice.

[vivandorron]

I thought that perhaps the 'Chatanooga Chick' would find an answer for me.

Thanks BBW.....The recipe is ideal for the sort of dish I have in mind. Easy enough to make as well.

Have never seen Andouile sausage in my neck of the woods; but it could be substituted with any other spicy sausage; and turkey could replace chicken, if one wanted a change. Shallots in place of onions, or chopped leeks instead with some garlic. The permutations become endless if other herbs are also considered in place of oregano,parsley and thyme.

Viv and I really enjoy hot spicy food.............Ron.

[BBWCHATT]

Ron - since you and Viv enjoy hot spicy food - this should be great for you - you can add as much cayenne as you can stand!!! :) Down in Cajun country Jambalaya is another one of those things like your Mother's vegetable soup - every family makes it just a little bit differently from the next - so it should adapt to anything that makes you guys happy! And great for a cold winter's day.

And since you seem to enjoy a bit of trivia as well - and you may already know this - but Cajun cooking originated with the poor and country living people - they simply had to use what they could catch or grow themselves. Creole cooking comes from the richer/upper classes.

BBWCHATT
The old lady in Chattanooga, TN, USA

[deepseadiver]

vivandorron ....What dictionary are you using? recipe in latin is to "take out".Receipt in latin (receptus) is to recieve ?

[vivandorron]

Hello again BBW..........Viv says that, this week, We must make a Jambalaya.( I sometimes have to interpret the word 'we' as meaning 'you'.)

Didn't know anthing about Cajun country or it's cooking; but have been trying to 'gen-up' on it since your original reply on this item............Ron...hen wr gwyr. (old man of Gower.)

[vivandorron]

Welcome aboard, deepseadiver.........Please smile when I say 'the water has got deeper'.

Not all Dictionaries give a cross-reference for 'Receipt and 'Recipe'. Apart from modern publications, I have one printed in 1910 which even then indicated that 'Receipt' was archaic for 'Recipe'.

The best case I can make is by way of reference to
Eliza Acton, who was the first woman to have had a book on cooking published in 1845...'Modern Cookery for private families'. ( Mrs Beeton's 'Book of Household Management' was originally published in parts as a magazine 1859/60) E.A. always used the word 'Receipt'.

However, so that neither of us should sink on this matter, can we agree that , Etymologically, you are correct and that, Hystorically, I am right.? (I hope nobody reads 'Hystorically' as 'Histrionically.)

Anyway, having had cause to open a few dictionaries, I have found out the difference between Shrimps and Prawns....( Collins English Dictionary 2006edition......Shrimps have a single pair of pincers; Prawns have two pairs....Well that's what it says.)

Thanks deepseadiver, It's been good food for thought....Best wishes....Ron.

[vivandorron]

Viv has just pointed-out to me that I can't spell HISTORICALLY...and can't even speak Welsh......R.

[shaneystar2]

The word " Receipt " has been around at least since 1386 as statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine derived from the French ..receite... or latin....recipěre.. over the years it has evolved into recipe .
The first recorded use of "receipt'' is a reference to a medicinal preparation from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.Before the 1700s, the everyday word for a culinary recipe was receipt.
Just thought you might like that bit of useless information !

[vivandorron]

G'day shaney.........We acknowledge recipe of......sorry... receipt of your communication of yesterday's fig.....or should that be date.( sticky one that.)

Thanks for having listed further ingredients, which we found quite interesting.

Yourself and BBWCHATT know that we enjoy an element of trivia being introduced into replies and it's always good to hear from both of you.

Lovage to Norfolk from two Herbs in Wales!!........V & R.