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Spanish Gambas Pil Pil - Shrimp with Garlic Chilli Oil

Safira
Spanish Gambas Pil Pil - Shrimp with Garlic Chilli Oil is a popular and simple tapas recipe for plump and juicy Garlic and Chilli Prawns. What’s more? It is absolutely delicious and ready to eat in a matter of minutes!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course Appetizer, Starters
Cuisine Spanish
Servings 4
Calories 163 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 240 g Raw King Prawns Shelled and Deveined
  • Flaky Salt and Course Pepper
  • 75 ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 7 medium cloves Garlic Sliced to medium thickness
  • 2 Red Chillies Sliced finely
  • 1 teaspoon Smoked Paprika
  • ½ teaspoon Dry Parsley
  • Few Leaves Fresh Parsley Chopped finely
  • 2 tablespoon Lemon To serve, optional

Instructions
 

  • Season prawns with salt and pepper and set aside.
  • Heat Olive Oil in a deep pan.
  • Once hot, add Garlic and chopped Red Chillies.
  • Once they sizzle, add Prawns and cook for 1 - 1 ½ minutes before flipping. Or just flip as soon as they change colour.
  • Add Smoked Paprika and Dry Parsley. Cook for a further 1 ½ minute.
  • Sprinkle over fresh chopped parsley. Serve with a wedge of Lemon.

Notes

What to serve with Gambas Pil Pil

It is best served with bread - fresh bread, crusty bread, garlic bread. Any bread that you can dip into the delicious oil.

Expert Tips

Garlic

It is better to slice the Garlic for this recipe. If you slice it too finely it may burn.
Grating it can make it bitter. So the best option in this recipe is to slice it to a medium thickness.
Each medium piece of Garlic should give you around 7 - 8 slices.

Oil

The quantity of oil here may seem excessive but this will be mopped up  before you know it.
Any remaining oil can be used to flavour other dishes throughout the week.

Storage Instructions

Fridge 

This keeps well in the fridge in an airtight container or cling filmed dish for up to 3 days but in my experience it doesn't last longer then 3 minutes.

Freezer

I don’t often recommend freezing prawns because reheating them makes them rubbery but because these are barely cooked, they are actually fine to be frozen.
Store in an airtight container for up to 3 months.
To reheat, bring to room temperature and cook for 1 - 2 minutes on the hob

Nutrition

Calories: 163kcalCarbohydrates: 3gProtein: 0.5gFat: 17gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 13gSodium: 2mgPotassium: 43mgFiber: 0.5gSugar: 0.3gVitamin A: 248IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 13mgIron: 0.3mg
Keyword Gambas Pil PIl, Pil PIl, Spanish Pil PIl
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