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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Ginataang shrimp

Filipino coconut stew. Ginger, chili, fish sauce, shrimp last. Greens if you have them. It should be a sauce, not a curry you already made on Tuesday.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Filipino coconut stew. Ginger, chili, fish sauce, shrimp last. Greens if you have them. It should be a sauce, not a curry you already made on Tuesday.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • shrimp
  • coconut milk
  • ginger
  • chili flakes
  • fish sauce

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: spinach.

Method

  1. Ginger and garlic softened first, then coconut milk reduced a few minutes before anything else.
  2. Never a hard boil. Coconut milk splits into oil and grit and does not come back.
  3. Shrimp in for two minutes only, off the boil.
  4. Spinach folded in at the very end, and fish sauce off the heat.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

shrimp
Cooks in about two minutes and is ruined in three.
coconut milk
Fat that carries chili and spice further than water can, with a sweetness underneath.
ginger
Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
chili flakes
Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.
fish sauce
Salt and deep savoriness, and it smells far stronger than it tastes once it is in something.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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