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Potatoes with prawns

This recipe, originally from Belgium, consists of baked potatoes which are hollowed out and filled with fried prawns. A cream and white wine sauce is then poured over the potatoes before returning them to the oven.

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Last modified on: January 14^th 2016

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 8 potatoes
2 200 g cooked prawns
3 ½ onion
4 30 g butter
5 500 ml dry white wine
6 30 g butter
7 200 ml cream
8 salt
9 pepper
Total weight: 2,303 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 40 min.

Preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F).

Scrub and rinse 8 potatoes; choose medium to large ones.

Bake in the oven.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Peel 200 g cooked prawns and cut into small pieces.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Prepare ½ onion and chop finely.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Melt 30 g butter in a saucepan on medium heat, then add the chopped onion, salt and pepper. Cook for a minute or two while stirring.

Stage 5 - 20 min.

Pour in 500 ml dry white wine, stir well and leave to reduce by 3/4 on low heat.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Pass the reduced wine and onion through a fine strainer and only keep the liquid. Return this to the pan.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Pour the cream into the reduced wine and bring to the boil on high heat.

Turn down the heat and leave to thicken to the consistency that suits you.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Melt 30 g butter in a small pan on high heat, then sauter (fry while tossing gently) the prawns just until they begin colour slightly.

Set aside.

Stage 9 - 10 min.

The potatoes are cooked when they yield to the touch or when a knife blade passes through easily.

Cut a "lid" off the top of each potato (less than halfway down).

If necessary, slice a little off the bottom so that the potato stands firmly.

Do not turn the oven off.

Stage 10

Scoop out the potato flesh with a small spoon or pommes parisiennes spoon.

We will not be using the potato flesh in this recipe, so you can keep this for use in another dish, such as potato purée.

Stage 11 - 5 min.

Fill each potato shell with the prawn pieces and arrange on a baking sheet.

Stage 12 - 5 min.

Pour in the cream sauce and bake in the oven for 5 minutes.

You can put them under the grill to brown the tops.

Stage 13

Serve piping hot.

Remarks

It is not essential to strain the wine and onion mixture. Leaving the bits of onion will give a more rustic character to the sauce; it's a matter of texture.

And to drink?

The same wine as you used for the sauce. In keeping with origins of the dish, a Belgian white wine, such as an AOC Côtes de Sambre et Meuse.

Keeping

A few days in the fridge, wthout the sauce.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,349 Kcal or 9,835 Kj	69 gr	267 gr	112 gr
117 %	27 %	25 %	17 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
102 Kcal or 427 Kj	3 gr	12 gr	5 gr
5 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
587 Kcal or 2,458 Kj	17 gr	67 gr	28 gr
29 %	7 %	6 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Crustaceans, Milk, Sulfites

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 7.58 €
Per person : 1.90 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Dry white wine: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Blanquette of veal, Seafood sauerkraut, Seafood sauerkraut, Rillons de Tours, Rabbit with mustard, ... All
	Cooked prawns: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Surprise eggs, Scandinavian cocktail, Avocado with Sautéed Prawns , Seafood rice salad, Normandy seafood stew, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rice à la grecque, Quartet of brassicas with cream , Fisherman's Ragout, Mushroom buckwheat pancakes, Thin summer tart "à la grecque", ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little lemon biscuits, Pork Chops Champvallon style, Salmon rillettes, Muffin dough, Layered Leek and Egg Gratin , ... All

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