April 17, 2010

Gratin with Shrimp and Broccoli



Ingredients: We use organics, natural, grass fed,and wild caught food!


  • 10~20 Shrimps
  • 1 head of broccoli
  • 1 small onion
  • whole wheat short pasta like penne for 2
  • butter 50g 
  • cake flour 50g
  • whole milk 600ml
  • consomme 2~5g
  • 1 tbs olive oil
  • salt for flavor adjustment
  • black pepper for flavor adjustment
  • parmesan cheese your favorite amount (usually amount covers the pan we use)
Recipe

First, make white sauce. Then, saute shrimp and broccoli. Finally, boil pasta, mix all of them, and put them in an oven.


<white sauce>
  1. Cut onion and slice paper thin.
  2. Warm a pan with medium high and melt butter. (5 at our kitchen)
  3. Before the butter is melted all the way, put sliced onion in the pan.
  4. Stir constantly because we don't want brown or burned onion.
  5. Once the onion looks clear, turn off the heat, and put cake flour.
  6. Keep stirring and mix well.
  7. Pour whole milk and mix well.
  8. Pour consomme and mix well.
  9. Turn on the mideum heat again.
  10. Keep stirring until the liquid turns to thick. Watch out at this point, easy to get burn.
  11. Once it's thick, add salt and pepper to flavor, and turn off the heat.
<pasta> *While you are boiling water, cut veggies and cook them.
  1. Boil water and add 1ts salt.
  2. Once the water is boiling, add whole wheat pasta.
  3. Boil the pasta for 1~2min less than what the pasta package says.
<Shrimp and Broccoli> *Turn on the oven at 375F.
  1. Cut broccoli with bite size.
  2. Cut garlic minced.
  3. Using kitchen paper and get rid of water on shrimp.
  4. Put 1 tbs olive oil on a pan, and warm it at the medium heat.
  5. Add minced garlic. Once you smell the aroma, add shrimp and broccoli.
  6. Add salt and pepper 1 pinch each.
  7. Turn off heat once shrimp is cooked.
Bake in the oven!
  1. Use a large enough size of pyrex, and rub butter on it.
  2. Mix boiled pasta and cooked shrimp&broccoli in the pyrex.
  3. Adjust the flavor for the white sauce with salt and pepper and pour it on 2.
  4. Mix3. a little bit.
  5. Cover 4. with parmesan cheese. (I like a lot of cheese.)
  6. Bake for 20min first and if its color is not golden brown, bake more.
Dekiagari! 出来上がり!

This is one of Japanese kid's favorites so you can be a cool papa if you can make it:)


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