restaurant week - recipes shrimp–egg white frittata with fingerling home fries

restaurant week - recipes shrimp–egg white frittata with fingerling home fries

Restaurant: Norma’s
Chef: Emile Castillo

Ingredients for Shrimp–Egg White Frittata
12 tablespoons clarified butter
1¼ pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
16 wedges Oven-Roasted Tomatoes (recipe
below)
½ bunch (½ pound) spinach
4¼ cups egg whites (about 20 eggs)
1 cup heavy cream
20 chives
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions for Shrimp–Egg White Frittata
1. Preheat oven to 375°F
2. In a medium-size sauté pan over high heat, heat
4 tablespoons of the clarified butter. Sauté the
shrimp until they become light pink then add the
roasted tomatoes and spinach. Sauté until
spinach is wilted (about 30 seconds). Turn off
heat and set aside.
3. In a bowl, beat the egg whites with the heavy
cream, 12 of the chives, minced, and salt and
pepper.
4. In a 6-inch oven-safe sauté pan, heat 2
tablespoons of clarified butter and pour ¼ of the
egg-white mixture into the pan. Cook until egg
whites are halfway set. Decoratively arrange ¼ of
the shrimp mixture on top.
5. Put the pan in the oven and cook for about 5–8
minutes to fully set the frittata.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for remaining 3 frittatas.
Ingredients for Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
4 plum tomatoes
Salt and pepper

Directions for Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
1. Stem and cut the tomatoes into quarters, season
with salt and pepper, drizzle some olive oil over
the tomatoes (optional), and roast at 250°F for
about 35 minutes.

Ingredients for Fingerling Potato Home
Fries
1 pound fingerling potatoes
1 red onion
1 tablespoon parsley
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 tablespoon thyme
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions for Fingerling Potato Home Fries
1. Boil fingerling potatoes for 10 minutes or until
tender.
2. Cut each potato lengthwise into 4 pieces.
3. In a sauté pan, sauté the onions in clarified butter
until golden brown.
4. Add the potatoes and continue to cook until
golden brown.
5. Add the herbs, salt and pepper.

To assemble
1. In the center of a plate, make a single-layer, 6-
inch circle of fingerling potato home fries.
2. Slide the frittata out of the sauté pan directly on
top of the potatoes.
3. Stick two of the chives in the center of the frittata.



Serves 4
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