Shrimp Cooked in Romesco With Wilted Spinach

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As Judy Rodgers noted successful her headnote for this recipe, the spirit of the condiment improves with a day’s refrigeration. Feel escaped to usage the romesco for different seafood oregon a operation of shellfish.

We’ve streamlined a fewer steps, acknowledgment to the availability of prepped ingredients that weren’t astir 14 years ago. But beryllium advised that the look does telephone for respective pans.

The condiment needs to beryllium for 30 minutes (in the saucepan). The finished condiment tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Ingredients

  • About 1 cupful mild-tasting olive oil, oregon arsenic needed
  • 1 heavy portion (1 1/2 ounces) chewy achromatic state bread, torn into respective pieces
  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed to a paste
  • 1 dried ancho chile pepper, stemmed, seeded and soaked for 1 to 2 minutes successful boiling water
  • 1/2 ounce (about 2 tablespoons) blanched almonds
  • 1 ounce (1/4 cup) skinned unsalted hazelnuts, toasted (see NOTE)
  • 1/2 cupful drained, coarsely chopped fire-roasted tomatoes
  • 1 spoon assertive reddish vino vinegar, preferably Spanish (as a substitute, whitethorn adhd a fewer drops of sherry vinegar to different reddish vino vinegar)
  • 1 spoon Spanish smoked paprika (pimenton), oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1/2 spoon mild paprika, oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1/2 cupful extra-virgin olive oil
  • Kosher salt
  • 1 cupful no-salt-added chickenhearted broth, seafood stock, h2o oregon a combination
  • 3 tablespoons adust achromatic wine
  • 1/2 cupful diced yellowish onion
  • About 1 1/4 pounds peeled, deveined ample oregon jumbo shrimp, preferably American wild-caught (tails connected oregon off)
  • 12 ounces caller spinach
  • Water (optional)

Adapted from “The Zuni Cafe Cookbook,” by Judy Rodgers (W.W. Norton, 2003).

Tested by Helen Horton.

Published February 5, 2017

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Updated March 15, 2026

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