Cooking Techniques for Boiled Shrimp

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All right we are back to show you our boiled shrimp recipe of sorts or procedure and I've got my pot here with my spice bag. The water is nice and discolored the way it should be. We want it to be completely stained and not be able to see through so that we know that it is nice and seasoned. I'm leaving the bag in there. It's not going to hurt the shrimp as far as that goes. It's just cheese cloth and butcher's twine. I've got half a lime in there which I didn't squeeze on purpose. I just left it the way it was so that it would actually seep in. I got just at a boil and I cranked my fire down to extremely low so I got a gentle steam, just a gentle simmer coming off the water itself. What we want to do is not cook these shrimp incredibly quickly on a rolling boil because then they wouldn't actually draw in the seasoning that they need. So we've got just a nice gentle simmer which is essentially is going to be poaching these shrimp which is what we want. So I am going to go ahead and dump these guys in and I want them to sit in here a long time and I want to kind of elongate the cooking process as I said because I want these guys to actually soak up all the good seasonings that are in there. Again, there is a multitude of these things out there in the supermarkets and such that you can use where ever you see fit. I like to use these dry seasonings and just make my own spice bag simply because it is a better product to me. I got a simmer here and I just going to stir these around. Again, I'm down to a low heat so I am just going to go ahead and let these guys sit in there and we'll come back here in a few minutes and show you what the finished product looks like. We are going to pull those out of there, throw them and throw them in this bowl. We are going to sprinkle the same seasoning on top of them as they are started to steam so that the seasoning will stick to them and then we are going to throw them in the refrigerator and chill them down till they are ready to eat. So we'll see you in a minute.

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