01 August 2018

Zucchini and shrimp on skewers

Skewers or kebabs are brochettes in French. We made brochettes de crevettes and brochettes de courgettes for lunch yesterday. It was a good end-of-July lunch on a hot day.




You know where the zucchini came from — our vegetable garden. Walt picked two more yesterday.




I get the shrimp from one of the area's Asian supermarkets. There's one in Tours, and one in Blois. I like to buy raw, frozen shrimp, heads off, instead of the pre-cooked shrimp the local supermarkets sell.




For these brochettes, I used a yellow Thai curry paste from a jar. I thinned the paste with some water to make it into a marinade, and marinated the zucchini pieces and the shrimp in it for three hours or so before Walt cooked the brochettes on the grill.




We put the zucchini pieces on separate skewers from the shrimp, because the zucchini needed to cook longer than the shrimp did. The accompaniment was steamed rice and the marinade, cooked in the microwave, served as a sauce.




With our lunch, we enjoyed a bottle of Côtes du Rhône red wine that I got at the supermarket. The wine was a two-for-the-price-of-one special and cost us about €2.50 ($3.00) per bottle.

7 comments:

  1. Perfect summer lunch, especially with that wine

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    1. We are in wine country within a wine country. We get good bargains on good wines. We bought 36 bottles of local 2014 Gamay wine a few weeks ago from a winery down the road for less than 100 euros. It needs to be well aerated before being consumed by being poured into a carafe but it's very good "prepared" that way.

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  2. This looks delicious. I'm going to look for a jar of curry paste.

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    1. I got mine at SuperU. The store had a special sale on red, green, and yellow Thai curry pastes in little jars. The brand name is Ayam and it was imported from Malaysia.

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  3. Your kabobs look great. I am always amazed at the reasonable cost of wines given their high quality in your neck of the woods. As I'm sure you remember, even California wines aren't so cheap in CA.

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  4. Oh my but that looks good! Hope you saved some for us, we'll be right over . . . .

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