Submitted 9 months ago by counselwolf@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Can I Blend Frozen Cooked Shrimp (with Skin) to Create a Soup?
I have these frozen shrimps (leftover from the holidays) and I don’t know what to do with it.
I was thinking I blend it up, and some water and stuff and it’d be like a soup.
Do you think it’d be a good idea?
Why don’t I just defrost and cook you say? because it’s already overcooked.
I mean, at least get the skins off first. This sounds horrible any way you do it.
Yeah seriously. Thaw them in a baggie submerged in water in the fridge for a couple hours then peel those suckers. Making some sort of shelly keratin paste sounds disgusting
You’d be better off making stock from the shrimp, rather than trying to puree them and eat them. If they really are as far gone as you’re saying, you’ll just make a soup that tastes terrible.
On the other hand, if you make stock by simmering them for a few hours in a pot full of water, you’ll be able to use the stock to make other dishes.
you can make a seafood stock out of them, but, uh, pureeing the whole thing seems… a bad idea.
I don’t know that you can recover already-overcooked shrimp, more than just by making the stock from it. (stock is the last step of recovering soemthing useful.) you could then use it for fish-based ramen, or other seafood stews and soups, whatevers.
I wonder what would happen if you used fish stock for things like rice (I use veggie or chicken stock for that all the time. It deepens the flavor of the rice.) In any case; if you’re absolutely insistent on eating the over cooked shrimp, you could shell/skin them, and use that for stock then serve to the in-laws you don’t like. save the good food for people you actually want to come back.
RBWells@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No. If you want to rescue them for soup, peel them, boil the shells in water with half an onion, a stalk of celery if you have it, to make a quick broth, throw out the shells and veg and keep the liquid.
Then put some butter in the pan melt it, whisk in some flour. Once it’s combined and a thick paste, slowly add back in the broth. Then put in your overcooked shrimp till warmed, take it off the heat and add some cream and season with salt and pepper. Simple shrimp soup.
But no, it’s not as simple as pureeing shrimp in the blender. That won’t give you anything edible.