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Prawn saganaki is classic Greek meze at its best, as it uses our national cheese - feta - with our national drink, ouzo, in combination with tomato, in order to praise the noble prawn! Saganaki is named after the frying pan in which it is traditionally prepared, a diminutive of sagani which is a frying pan with two handles. Great recipe for Feta cheese saganaki with ouzo sauce. Feta saganaki (pan-seared feta cheese), a fast meze for beer and wine!!
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook feta cheese saganaki with ouzo sauce using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Feta cheese saganaki with ouzo sauce:
- Make ready feta cheese
- Take 1/4 cup ouzo
- Make ready 1 spring onion
- Make ready 1 tbsp oil
- Make ready a little basil
- Make ready 1/2 cup heavy cream
When I think of shrimp, one particular Greek dish comes to mind, and that is Shrimp saganaki, shrimp cooked with tomato sauce, a splash of ouzo and topped with crumbled feta. Tender shrimp, smothered in rich tomato sauce. This dish is not only a typical starter or meze it also serves as a main meal during fasting periods in Greece. Prawn Saganaki is Greece's famous seafood dish featuring prawns drenched in a fresh juicy tomato sauce and melted Feta cheese.
Steps to make Feta cheese saganaki with ouzo sauce:
- Cut the feta cheese into medium sized slices.
- Dip each slice first in water, then in flour, then water once more and fry in hot oil.
- When they are golden brown, take them off the heat and place them on a plate.
- Sauté the spring onion in very little oil and stir in the ouzo.
- Add the basil and in the end, the heavy cream.
- Leave it for a while to thicken and pour it over the hot feta cheese.
This dish is not only a typical starter or meze it also serves as a main meal during fasting periods in Greece. Prawn Saganaki is Greece's famous seafood dish featuring prawns drenched in a fresh juicy tomato sauce and melted Feta cheese. It's ideal as a starter or you can serve it as a main with some rice, pasta or just a big chunk of crunchy Greek bread that is ideally dipped into that rich saltsa! Ingredients: The feta is salty enough, wait until the end to add extra salt. Then crumble the feta cheese and add half of it to the tomato sauce.
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