Garnaalcroquetten met Tomatensaus

Name: Garnaalcroquetten met Tomatensaus (Shrimp croquettes with tomato sauce)
Yield: Serves Six to Eight
Cuisine: Belgium
Ingredients: an onion, finely chopped; eggs, 4, separated; white wine, 200 ml (⅓ pint); beef lard or oil for deep-frying; ordinary butter, 50 g (2 oz); juice of 3 lemons; flour, 200 g (7 oz); best salted butter (that of Diksmuide if in Belgium), ¼ kg (½ lb); brown shrimp, 1 kg (2 lb), cooked but unpeeled; tomato purée, 90 g (3 oz); breadcrumbs

Shrimp croquettes with tomato sauce

Preparation info

Serves
Six to Eight

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

About

Ingredients

brown shrimp, 1 kg (2 lb), cooked but unpeeled
best salted butter (that of Diksmuide i

Europe
Belgium
Starter

Method

Peel the shrimps, reserve the meat and set all the debris to boil in water for 5 minutes. Strain and reserve the broth.

Melt the butter in a pan, stir in the flour and add the wine and lemon juice, followed by 350–400 ml (about ¾