Food For Every Soul

Hello Helpers! Welcome back to another edition of Food for Every Soul! In this series, I interview people from the Help Force about their favourite and famous recipes. For this week’s recipe, I interviewed the chef in the making: Malu_Suna!

I started by asking Malu some questions about the recipe she had decided to share with us today.


Welcome, Malu, to our recipe series interview today! Can you tell us what recipe you will be telling us about?

Hiiiii! Thanks for having me ^^ I’ll be telling you about Brazilian stroganoff (shrimp version!)

Omg I love shrimp! Can you tell us why this recipe is important to you, and is there any history or story behind it?

Strogonoff is a really common meal in Brazil; some families have it as a special “Sunday meal” or randomly on the day to day life. For me, I actually prefer beef strogonoff because it is the one my mom makes the most when she wants something easy to do

Here is the moment we’ve all been waiting for, the recipe for this tasty dish!

Ingredients:

  • -Garlic (2 cloves)
  • Onion (1 white onion)
  • Olive oil
  • Heavy cream (400g)
  • Tomato paste (half teaspoon)
  • Ketchup (just a drop)
  • Mustard (just a drop)
  • Salt and Pepper
  1. First, grate the onion or chop it in really small pieces, do the same to the garlic. Put a dash of olive oil in the pan, put the onions first because they take longer to cook, after they’re golden, add the garlic till it smells good, keep mixing in the whole process so they can’t burn.
  2. After that, add the shrimp and let them cook nicely, add just a little salt and Pepper to bring flavour to them.
  3. After the shrimps are cooked, add a dash of tomato paste, mix a little, then add heavy cream, you just use enough to cover the shrimps completely. Now you add just a dash of ketchup and mustard to keep those flavours really subtle; don’t use a lot. Add more tomato paste if needed, adjust salt and pepper, can add a little bit of paprika if you will. Just let it get hot, and it’s done, you can add mushrooms for texture if you want too, normally we use champignons.


Do you have any tips or tricks on making it, or why people may like this recipe, or any memories from it?

The trick here is that all ingredients you can adjust as you wish, as the main ingredient here is the heavy cream! You can do it without ketchup and mustard if you will, or use garlic and onion powder instead. I recommend to eat with white rice and batata palha, which is basically a really thin sliced potato cooked till crisp (but can eat with fries too, that’s the fancy version for us 😅), but it’s so good you can eat with bread, almost like a soup. That recipe is special to me because it can be done with any type of meat without bones, and adds just a little bit of difference to day life, as here the lunch meal is the most important one for the day.


Thank you for this very delicious recipe, Malu! Do you have anything to say to the audience?

You deserve the effort of a good meal! Food is important, and the process of learning to do it is rewarding. If you do a good quantity of this recipe per example, it can last 5 days in the fridge, and you can have it as quick as any other type of food. Take care of yourself and treat you with a good meal c:

And with that, we’ve reached the end of the post. I will be back next time with more fresh and delicious content. If anyone would like to share a recipe with us, DM me with your ideas!

Bon Appétit! <3

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