Shrimp with Garlic and Onion Recipe

A good recipe that fulfills the formula of the Arabs and that also, satisfies the mouth in a private party, offers us the exquisiteness of shrimp, which as you will see, since it is seafood it amplifies the strengthening capacity the dish has:

Ingredients
150 grams of shrimp
½ cup of olive oil
2 yolk of a hard boiled egg
1 big onion
4 garlic teeth

Preparation
Prepare this dish in a mud pot. Cut the garlic teeth in sheets but not too thin and fry them with half of the olive oil. Allow them to cook until they are completely golden. Take the onions out of the pan and keep some of the oil.

Place the shrimp in this oil and cook them over low heat for 5 minutes. Then fry the onion with the other half of the oil in another pan until they are transparent and begin to get golden. The onion should have previously been chopped with a knife.

Once the frying is done add in the egg yolks and mash them well with a fork, mixing them with the fried onions and the olive oil.

Mix everything in together, the shrimp, the garlic and the onion with the egg yolk in a pot. Spice to the taste preferably with salt, fresh white pepper and a pinch of ground red pepper.

Following along with the theme of onions used as an aphrodisiac in history, a legend tells that the sheik Al-Nefzawi ate meat seasoned with a great amount of onions and onion juice mixed in honey. On one occasion this eating regimen allowed him to – it is said – endure a month of activity with the with the damsels of his harem being able to keep an erection for more than 30 days in a row.

Poor guy. Well, we would have had to see those damsels too, dressed that way, halfway dressed with see through clothing and stones, barefoot, dancing the belly dance, and something important, all different in their own way.

Ulysses and Casanova Too
Homer, the Greek poet, tells in the Odyssey, written much before Christ, that the nymph Calipso, in love with Ulysses and whom she kept for five years in her beautiful island of Ogigia, and with whom she had a daughter, placed in the raft in which the he had to return to his homeland, onions, amongst other provisions, because they made the heart rejoice. 

According to the famous seducer Giacomo Casanova, the best aphrodisiac was hot chocolate, besides as Ruth Bombosch affirms in the biography of this character, had great trust in an onion and egg salad with sage, mint, black pepper and vinegar.

This sauce was prepared two weeks before being used. Casanova added six cooked egg yolks to it.

Once again the recipe of the Arabs, and he complemented his lover’s diet with oysters, caviar and truffles.