GAMBAS AL PIL-PIL recipe please

foodaholic · 15-03-2009 9:47pm #1

anyone have a recipe for this dish, ive had it in a couple of restaurants but have never made it, and I cant find a recipe on it on my usual recipe sites.

Baybay · 15-03-2009 9:53pm

Delia Smith has a recipe in her how to cheat book. I'm not at home just now so can't write it here for you but it may be available online.

Minder · 16-03-2009 8:42am

How do you cheat in making Gambas Pil Pil?

Take butter and heat.
Add garlic and chilli.
Add raw prawns.

If that can be shortened I would be very surprised.

Baybay · 17-03-2009 4:23pm

Minder wrote: »

How do you cheat in making Gambas Pil Pil?

I didn't say it was necessary/desirable/recommended or anything else.

All I did was answer the Op's request as to where a recipe might be found.

Minder · 17-03-2009 8:36pm

Baybay wrote: »

I didn't say it was necessary/desirable/recommended or anything else.

You didn't, but Delia does - the book is called How to Cheat at Cooking. If you have the book, post the recipe. I would be interested to read it.

foodaholic · 17-03-2009 10:22pm

I would appreciate it, having a dinner party on sat and plan to have it as one of my starters. Thanks in advance

Baybay · 17-03-2009 10:30pm

I'm not at home for the next few days, which is where the book is, but I'll try to post before Saturday.

Faith · 18-03-2009 12:15am

Google is your friend.

Baybay · 21-03-2009 2:34pm

Minder wrote: »

You didn't, but Delia does - the book is called How to Cheat at Cooking. If you have the book, post the recipe. I would be interested to read it.

I've had a look and I think the cheats that Delia is going for in this book are a lot more to do with time saving or convenience, perhaps by using items from the freezer or buying ready prepared components for recipes, than it has to do with cheating on the recipes themselves.

The gambas pil pil is made from the ingredients as listed in your earlier post so, yes, it might seem a little difficult to see how to cheat on it.

However, the prawns are frozen and the chillies come in jars so I guess it could be a "store cupboard" dish if ingredients have not been freshly bought. And that is, I believe, the cheat.

I won't post the cooking instructions as that seems to have been covered by the previous post and Delia seems to concur with the cooking methods.

foodaholic · 22-03-2009 5:08pm

thanks for that.
Made it last night, really tasty.

Ali07 · 06-04-2009 6:37pm

Much better if you use olive oil instead of butter and add a bit of chopped parsley at the end. MMMMMM Yummmyyyy

rocknchef · 07-04-2009 2:39pm

1 kg (2 lb) fresh prawns (shrimp)
6 or 8 cloves garlic, finely chopped
red chilli to taste
olive oil, for cooking

Pre-heat the oven to 250°C You can leave the heads on the prawns or take them off, it’s up to you, but do peel them and leave the tails on. Carefully pull out the vein, starting at the head end.
Take four individual ovenproof dishes and put about 1cm (½ inch) of oil in each one.

Divide the chopped garlic and chilli beween them also and put them in the oven for 10 minutes or until they’re sizzling hot.
Remove from the oven and divvy up the prawns into the four pots. Put back into the oven for another 5 minutes or so until the prawns are nicely pink and cooked.
Serve immediately, straight from the oven, while they’re still sizzling. Don’t forget to mop up all that hot, garlicky oil with some fresh bread.

GAMBAS AL PIL-PIL recipe please

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