Chilcano de Camarones (Peruvian recipes)

Total time: 2 hours. Quantity: 4 persons.

A delicious meal prepared with seafood.

The Chilcano de Camarones, a typical Peruvian seafood dish, is made with seafood and other vegetables, such as Chinese onion, coriander and good herbs, and it is a very nutritious meal. One of the main reasons to prepare this meal is that we can cook our seafood in the best way, and use our creativity to give it a better presentation. If this is the first time you are going to prepare this meal, you are going to love it.

Let's see how to prepare it!

Chilcano de Camarones (Peruvian recipes).

Ingredients:

• A dozen medium shrimp, and clean.
• 2 dozen shrimp tails that are clean and peeled.
• One tablespoon of oil.
• Half cup of chopped Chinese onion.
• A quarter cup of diced red onion.
• 8 cups of fish broth.
• Juice of 2 lemons.
• One tablespoon of chopped parsley.
• One tablespoon of fine coriander.
• One tablespoon of chopped mint.
• Salt to taste.

Preparation of the recipe:

1. Lift each shrimp's head shell, to remove the little black bag it has, and the yellow coral. This can be done with a stick or with the tip of a knife.
2. Heat oil in a pot and fry the chopped red onion. When it becomes transparent, add the fish broth. Then add the previously washed shrimp, the peeled tails, and cook for 10 minutes.
3. Finally, add the chopped parsley, cilantro, Chinese onion, mint, salt to taste, and lemon juice.
4. We can serve this chilcano as we like.

The Chilcano de Camarones, a typical Peruvian seafood dish.

Note: This recipe has a proportion for 6 people, and it is always recommended that you wash each ingredient thoroughly.

Preparation video in Spanish