Adding Shrimp & Spice Bag to Cook Boiled Shrimp

Part of the Video Series How to Cook Lobster, Crab, & Shrimp

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How to add shrimp and spice bag to boiling water; learn this and more in this free online instructional cooking video about seafood taught by an expert.

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Adding Shrimp & Spice Bag to Cook Boiled Shrimp
All right we are back to show you the hot boiled shrimp procedure and I've shown you how to tie the actual spice bag that we use for our seasonings and we poured the seasonings inside that spice bag and I left a little bit of space between the level of the seasonings and where I tied the actual bag which was made out of cheese cloth. So we tied a knot with some butcher's twine. What I've done is I've taken a small pot. For today's intents and purposes, we are just making a small amount of shrimp. As I put the spice bag in the bottom of the pot and I filled it with hot tap water and as it fills with the water I let the spice bag sit under the running water so they would actually saturate and stay on the bottom because we don't want it floating around in there. So I've just got a high flame going on this water and I am not really trying to reach a hard boil. What I want is just kind of a gentle simmer and the reason being is because seafood as a whole is not going to take a long time to cook. So as we had this gentle simmer and gentle roll, I start to see these seasonings swirl around in the water here and that is always a good time to go ahead and throw in this shrimp. As these shrimp start to float up to the top, we will show you what a done shrimp looks like and it is only a few minutes as far as that goes. In the meantime we are going to go ahead and cut a lemon or a lime or you could put half an orange in here as well as you start to get a simmer. We will come back and show you what the water needs to look like before you throw the shrimp in there.

About the Expert

Expert: Louis Ortiz is a professional chef instructor at a culinary institute. He has been working in the culinary industry for 10 years. Read More