Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, prawns saganaki - feta and tomato sauce. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Prawn Saganaki is Greece's famous seafood dish featuring prawns drenched in a fresh juicy tomato sauce and melted Feta cheese. It's ideal as a starter or you can serve it as a main with some rice, pasta or just a big chunk of crunchy Greek bread that is ideally dipped into that rich saltsa! When I think of shrimp, one particular Greek dish comes to mind, and that is Shrimp saganaki, shrimp cooked with tomato sauce, a splash of ouzo and topped with crumbled feta.
Prawns saganaki - feta and tomato sauce is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Prawns saganaki - feta and tomato sauce is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook prawns saganaki - feta and tomato sauce using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Prawns saganaki - feta and tomato sauce:
- Prepare 1/2 pack feta
- Make ready 1 jar tomato sauce (cherry tomatoes here)
- Make ready 1 packet prawns
- Make ready 1 onion
- Prepare 2 gloves garlic
- Prepare 1/2 pack parsley
- Get 1 glass white wine
- Prepare Oil
- Get Chilly flakes
- Take 1 bunch olives (optional)
Prawn saganaki is classic Greek meze at its best, as it uses our national cheese - feta - with our national drink, ouzo, in combination with tomato, in order to praise the noble prawn! Saganaki is named after the frying pan in which it is traditionally prepared, a diminutive of sagani which is a frying pan with two handles. The most common traditional Greek recipes cooked in a saganaki pan include cheese saganaki and mussels saganaki. When preparing a Greek shrimp saganaki recipe, the shrimps are first sautéed in olive oil, deglazed with traditional Greek ouzo drink, then added in a spicy tomato sauce and finished off with fresh herbs and salty feta cheese.
Instructions to make Prawns saganaki - feta and tomato sauce:
- Chop onions and add them to a sauce pan. On very low heat cook onions until soft but not brown. Add garlic and the chillies and cook for another minute or so. If the pan gets too dry and the onions start burning add a splash of wine
- Add the tomato sauce and the white wine, cover and leave to cook for 10 min on low heat
- Add prawns and half of the parsley. cook covered for 2 minutes
- Add the crumbled feta, the rest of the parsley, turn off the heat and leave the feta to melt.
Transport yourself to Greece with every mouthful of this prawn saganaki recipe. Prawns are cooked in a rich, chilli-laced tomato sauce, topped with creamy feta and olive oil and left to bake in the oven. Lisa Faulkner's sunshine prawns with feta is similar to this recipe but with more of a curry vibe… give it a go. Juicy king prawns in tomato and white wine sauce, mixed with garlic, spices and crumbly feta. Perfect Greek saganaki dish for a family or romantic dinner for two.
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