Tag: seafood

Scandinavian Shrimp Pie

Here’s the recipe for the Shrimp Pie I made for Pie Night last night. It comes from Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2006
. They took a reader submitted recipe and lightened it up. I kinda added some of the fat back. (As always, the recipe below is how I made it, not how it appears in the cookbook.)

Shrimp Pie

Crust

  • 1¼ cups all-purpose flou
  • ¼ cup semolina flour
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening
  • ¼ cup ice water
  • ½ teaspoon cider vinegar
  • cooking spray
  1. Preheat oven to 375°
  2. Chill butter, then cut into small pieces
  3. Combine all-purpose flour, semolina flour, sugar, and salt in food processor
  4. Add butter and vegetable shortening
  5. Process until the mixture is a course meal
  6. Combine ice water and vinegar
  7. Add vinegar-water mixture to flour
  8. Mix with a fork until well combined
  9. Coat a deep dish pie plate with cooking spray
  10. Press mixture into pie plate and up the sides
  11. Bake for about 5 minutes
  12. Cool on a wire rack

Filling and Pie

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 12 ounces uncooked, deveined shrimp
  • ¼ cup cream cheese
  • ½ cup egg substitute
  • 2 teaspoons all purpose flour
  • 1 cup evaporated milk
  • 2 ounces Havarti cheese
  • fresh dill
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  1. Chop shrimp into bite sized pieces
  2. Heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium-high heat
  3. Add shrimp and cook until you’re sure it’s cooked
  4. Combine cream cheese and ¼ cup of egg substitute in a mixing bowl
  5. Beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended
  6. Add flour and beat one minute minute
  7. Add remaining egg substitute and milk and beat until mixed
  8. Stir in shrimp, Havarti cheese, dill and salt
  9. Pour mixture into crust
  10. Bake at 375° for 40 minutes (or until set)

Shrimp and Stuffing Bake

Back to cooking some new things for me. This one is based off a recipe from Better Homes and Gardens Biggest Book of Casseroles (page 105 if you care). Other than the soup, little else is pre-made.

The recipe calls for frozen or fresh medium shrimp, but I prefer smaller shrimp in dishes. So I got canned since I didn’t see any of the small shrimp in the freezer. The downside is there’s a lot of salt in canned shrimp. I figure boiling the shrimp removes some of the salt though. I also avoided the condensed soup in the recipe because the only condensed version of cream of celery at Whole Foods was super high in salt. If I remember correctly, it was about 33% U.S. R.D.A. per serving. So I got an uncondensed kind and used a little bit more. It was pretty thick stuff, so I only increased the amount used by a couple of ounces over the book’s recipe. I bought bread made in store, which unfortunately doesn’t list the sodium content. It is the third ingredient on the list though. I’m thinking the sodium I don’t know about in the bread is balanced somewhat by the amount of sodium taken out by boiling the shrimp.

  • 12 oz. canned shrimp (1980 mg sodium)
  • 1 celery stalk
  • ½ large onion
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • about 12 ounces creamy celery soup (720 mg sodium)
  • ¼ cup milk (32 mg sodium)
  • ½ teaspoon sage
  • ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
  • dash of pepper
  • 2 eggs
  • 10 oz. crusty bread loaf
  1. Cut bread into cubes/small chunks
  2. Bake bread at 350° for 15 to 25 minutes to dry it out/firm it up
  3. Boil shrimp for about 3 minutes (if fresh/frozen, until they are opaque)
  4. Chop the celery
  5. Chop the onion
  6. Cook celery and onion in butter until tender (can use the same as the shrimp)
  7. Add soup, milk, sage, thyme (crush first), and pepper
  8. Beat eggs
  9. Add eggs to the concoction
  10. Mix well
  11. Fold in bread chunks
  12. Fold in shrimp
  13. Transfer to 1.5 quart casserole dish
  14. Bake covered for 30 minutes at 350°
  15. Bake uncovered for 15 minutes.
  16. Let it cool.

Pretty tasty is the result. About 4 servings. About 690 mg sodium per serving, done my way.

Also, now I know basically how to make stuffing. Can’t say it tastes a whole lot better than boxed though, which is cheaper. This has less salt. Without the shrimp the price might be comparable and the salt in this really a lot less.

And yeah, I know I’ve been harping on the salt a lot lately. It’s been one year today since my grandfather died, and I’m basically of the opinion that a high salt diet was the proximate cause of his heart attacks in the last year. The doctors told him on a couple of E.R. visits that salt intake was what caused his shortness of breath that prompted the 911 call. Can’t know what would have been; without the salt it might have been just as bad. Still, I owe it to myself to make these changes now rather than when I have heart problems at 83.