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Tomate aux Crevettes

Name: Tomate aux Crevettes
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belgium
Ingredients: 4 Tomato; 250g (small, cooked) Shrimp; 4 tbsp Mayonnaise; 1 tsp Ketchup; 1 tsp Lemon juice; A pinch Parsley; To taste Lettuce; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Hollowed tomatoes stuffed with North Sea shrimp in mayonnaise — a Belgian summer starter.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tomate aux crevettes is Belgium's signature starter, made with small brown 'grey shrimp' from the North Sea. It's a simple dish of shrimp dressed with mayonnaise and stuffed into hollowed raw tomatoes. In the coastal town of Oostduinkerke, the traditional practice of shrimp fishing on horseback still survives.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a café terrace in a North Sea town, a starter of red tomatoes overflowing with shrimp sits beside glasses of white wine.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Tomato 4
Shrimp 250g (small, cooked)
Mayonnaise 4 tbsp
Ketchup 1 tsp
Lemon juice 1 tsp
Parsley A pinch
Lettuce To taste
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the tops off the tomatoes and scoop out the flesh and seeds with a spoon.
Sprinkle the insides with a little salt, turn upside down, and drain for 10 minutes.
Dress the shrimp with mayonnaise, ketchup, lemon juice, and pepper.
Pile the shrimp into the tomatoes.
Replace the tomato tops as lids.
Serve on a lettuce-lined plate with parsley.

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