Cauliflower with Shrimp

What’s this an experiment? This is what hubby told me when he saw what I have cooked. Well I said I don’t know what to do with the cauliflower and since shrimp can be sautéed with this veggie I said why not try it, after all it would still be palatable. Not because he wanted to annoy me and insult what I have cooked for him, but it’s always his routine to ask me what I call the recipe particularly if he is not familiar with it. He knows that I cook Filipino dishes and one of his favorites was Sinigang and Adobong Manok.


Sauteed Cauliflower with Shrimp



Anyway, nothing too much too fancy about this dish since it does look the same or almost near to Chopsuey which if I have carrot, sweet peas, French beans and mushroom, I would go and divert my cooking into such. But as for the moment that these were just my ingredients, I decided to just sauté the shrimp along with cauliflower.

I don’t intend to put too much water in my veggie meal. It’s just not my cup of tea I guess when it comes to such recipes. Probably if I were to prepare a soup and something like that, it is already common sense to see water and your ingredients swimming along with it.
Filipinos can eat a meal even if they don’t have soup or if the dish is not that watery. But my husband is not used of eating such dish since his mother got him used of watery food. I call it watery which means even a curry meal, for them it float with water, not just ample enough for a sauce or creamy texture, but a lot of it. Not all curries are the same when you cook it especially if its vegetable curries.

Now what I did with this recipe was just sauté the shrimp with garlic and onion. After that I sprinkle a bit of turmeric powder and put the green chilies to make the dish a bit spicy than usual. After this I put the cauliflower and some water. I just seasoned it with fish sauce and then sprinkle ground black pepper. It does not take much to cook this veggie but you need to cook the shrimp well. You can also put some shrimp broth cubes if you like and add more water if you like. You can’t go wrong in this recipe, it’s just easy to prepare.

Fried Shrimp Masala

This is one of the easiest foods to prepare although the only thing that will just slow you down is when you clean it. I really don’t like removing shells and de-veiling it since it does sting me no matter how careful I am. But I was so hungry at that time so I have helped hubby in cleaning it. Hands do stink naturally after cleaning prawns or shrimps and you needed a good hands sanitizer and soap for this one. Anyway so much for complaining, what we just prepared for our shrimp is putting masala into it.

Fried Shrimp Masala


It consists of turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt. Marinate the shrimp for quite some time before frying it in a hot pan. You don’t need to put a lot of oil when frying shrimps. Just an ample amount of oil will do and shrimps will juice off water so expect that your pan will get watery before it drains and cooks well with that oil. Anyway as long as you don’t put the stove into high flame and you should really stir it well so that your shrimp will be cook well.

I do like to pair this recipe with any vegetable dish and curry. Just one reminder to all who eats shrimps or prawns, never ever take anything in between which is rich in Vit. C. You can eat that fruit which has vitamin C after an hour you consume prawns or shrimps. Why? It’s because our body will have a bad reaction producing arsenic in the body which can be fatal. So Shrimp + Vit. C = POISON. I don’t know if you may call it a fallacy, but better to take care of our health rather than to say this as a hoax.