Locrio de Camarones
Ingredients
- 1 bag frozen shrimp, cleaned and deveined, tails off thawed
- 1-2 tbsp garlic paste
- 2 cups long grain rice I prefer Carolina
- 2 ½ cups water
- ½ onion, diced white or yellow
- ½ green or red pepper, diced
- ½ cubanelle pepper, diced
- 3 cloves of garlic, diced
- 1-2 tbsp sofrito homemade or store bought (will post recipe soon!)
- 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 lime you can have more lime on the side when serving so maybe get an extra if you like it lime-y
- 1 knob of butter
- handful of cilantro
Seasonings
- garlic powder
- onion powder
- salt
- pepper
- dominican oregano
- cumin
- sazon (if you have the adobo with sazon that is fine, eliminate the adobo below)
- adobo
Instructions
- Clean and defrost shrimp, then pat completely dry
- Season shrimp with garlic powder, salt, pepper, onion powder, cumin, dominican oregano, sofrito, and adobo.
- In your caldera pot, or pot of choice, add butter and oil. When oil and butter is ready, add shrimp and sauté till cooked and it has changed to pink color with some browning from being fried.
- Remove shrimp when cooked, add a little more oil and add peppers and onion to pan to start to sauté
- Add garlic cook for a minute or so – do not burn your garlic.
- Add sofrito and tomato paste and cook out for a little less than a minute.
- Add water and bring to a boil. While waiting for the water to boil, wash your rice. Ratio is 1 cup of rice to 1 cup of water plus ½ cup of water. So 2 cups of rice, 2.5 cups of water. If you want to make less rice, use 1 cup of rice to 1.5 cups of water.
- Once water is boiling, add the rice. Continue to let the water boil until a majority of the water has evaporate and you start to see "mini volcanoes" in the rice.
- Lower flame to the lowest possible setting, place foil on the pot and cover with lid. Let cook for 25 minutes.
- After 25 minutes, return shrimp to rice and stir the rice and shrimp. Add a bunch of cilantro, put the lid on and let it heat through for another five minutes with the heat on. If you want to brown the bottom rice bits (aka con-con), raise the heat a little bit.
- Serve with some fried tostones and some lime wedges (if you like).
Video
What is Locrio?
I honestly do not have the answer as to what the translation for locrio de camarones is. I also refuse to look it up because I have asked a handful of people and not one has been able to define the word. The easiest way I can describe it is as a One Pot Rice dish. Locrio can be made with any type of protein and the seasonings are measured with your heart. It is to your liking! I chose shrimp because in my opinion it is the easiest and fastest although I am sure Chicken is delicious. This dish is great for all the non-meat eaters in my group so it is definitely a staple.
A Little Background
Most of the tips from a Tik Toker @cookingwitd who I am absolutely obsessed with, her food looks packed with flavor and 10/10 recommend giving her a follow. But little of my personal back story, I have been dating a Dominican man for twelve years – yes I said twelve. Last year we bought our first home together and in order to try and sway him into marrying me I have been trying to make more traditional Dominican dishes. When I searched on tik tok for Dominican Recipes, Dahianna’s videos were among some of the more popular ones. But, like any true Dominican man will tell you, their mom has the best cooking. So I was trying a bunch of different pages. Her TikTok page was the closest that I have gotten to his mothers awesome cooking.
Locrio de Camarones
My favorite thing about this dish besides it being a one pot dish is that there even there is an error, it is still going to taste good. Like I said, you can alternate the proteins by switching the shrimp for chicken, pork, or even sausage. You could also change what peppers you put. If you prefer only cubanelles, then go for it! And I have seen a number of different seasonings put it in, you by no means have to follow mine. I am a creature of habit and I tend to use the same kind of seasonings often, but you can experiment away till you find the one you like.
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