Raw seafood that is usually eaten is octopus, squid, tuna, salmon, shrimp, abalone, oysters and many more. Are you a sashimi lover? If I prefer it cooked with a lot of spices, hihihi...
Various types of seafood, one of which is shrimp. Shrimp has a soft meat texture, and you can enjoy prawns according to your taste because they are easy to process.
Well, here are the types of shrimp that are very popular in Indonesia:
1. Jerbung Shrimp
2. Peci Shrimp
This Peci Shrimp is not a shrimp that uses a cap, my friend, this shrimp is another variant of the jerbung shrimp. This shrimp is white but darker and has black spots.
This shrimp is usually cooked for sweet and sour or spicy, etc., but this shrimp is not suitable for grilling because the skin is thin, making it easy for the shrimp to burn quickly.
3. Giant Shrimp
This shrimp comes from fresh water, this shrimp can also be called cokong or fresh water prawn.
The color is a bit blue, the claws are long, and the head is big. This shrimp can be called somewhat similar to lobster but smaller in size. It is suitable if processed by burning because the skin is hard.
4. Pancet Shrimp
The name push shrimp does not mean that you eat it by pressing the button, this shrimp is also called tiger shrimp. The skin of this shrimp is thick and hard with a green / red color and there is a fairly dark transverse line. Very suitable for grilling, or other dishes as well.
5. Dogol Shrimp
Another nickname for this, is pink shrimp. The name is pink because the color is pink but there is a slightly yellow color too. The size of this shrimp is not too big, this shrimp is very suitable for frying using flour
6. Vennamei Shrimp
This shrimp belongs to the expensive shrimp group, this shrimp is very in demand in the market. The color of this shrimp is white and there is a slightly blue pattern. Suitable as a complement to any dish, fried, fried, soup, mixed with noodles, both fried and gravy, and other dishes as well.
7. Fan Shrimp
Have you ever thought of a question, "can this shrimp be used as a fan?" of course not. Another nickname for this shrimp is brush shrimp (but it doesn't look like a brush) it looks like a lobster but smaller in size, the skin has a hard texture but not as hard as a lobster. Suitable for sauce dishes such as prawns in Padang sauce, sweet and sour, etc.
8. Rebon shrimp
This shrimp has a very small size. This shrimp is only 2-3.5 cm in size. Usually this shrimp is processed for peanut brittle, botok or shrimp sauce and also made shrimp paste.
The production of delicious shrimp paste in Indonesia is one of them Cirebon, this terasi from Cirebon has been around since the royal era, wow that's great too!
What shrimp have you tried? Or did you just know that there are many types of shrimp? For those of you who have tried all kinds of shrimp, which one do you think is delicious?
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Thank you for the info. very helpful for my school assignment hehehe
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