Camarones a la Diabla

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1. Toast the guajillo and árbol chillies in a dry pan for 40 seconds a side, then soak in hot water for 20 minutes.

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2. Char the tomatoes, onion and garlic in the same dry pan for 8 minutes, until blackened in patches.

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3. Blend the soaked chillies, chipotles, charred vegetables, oregano, cumin, salt and sugar with 100 ml of the soaking water.

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4. Strain the sauce through a sieve, pressing the solids through.

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5. Heat the oil in a wide pan and add the tomato purée for 1 minute.

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6. Pour in the strained sauce — stand back — and fry 5 minutes, until it darkens and thickens.

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7. Add the stock and simmer 3 minutes.

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8. Taste and correct the salt now, before the prawns go in.

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9. Add the prawns and cook 3 minutes, turning once, until pink and curled.

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10. Take off the heat, stir in the lime juice, and scatter the coriander over.

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Worth Getting Right

• Fry the sauce for five minutes on its own.
• Season the sauce before the prawns arrive.
• Three minutes for the prawns, then off the heat.

Ingredient Swaps

• Dried chilli flakes can stand in for the chillies. Heat varies a great deal between chillies and between jars, so start with a small pinch and add more to taste.
• Lemon is the everyday swap for lime in this kind of dish — the acidity plays the same role even though the flavour is not identical.
• An eighth of a teaspoon of garlic powder per clove is the stand-in usually given when you are out of fresh garlic; it will not brown the same way, and it burns easily, so add it with the liquid.

What to Serve With It

White rice · Warm corn tortillas · Cold lager

Sides from the same cuisine on this site: Instant Pot Black Beans, Pan de Muerto, Refried Beans.

Leftovers and Storage

The sauce keeps 4 days refrigerated. Cook the prawns fresh.

The Numbers per Serving

No nutrition figures are given for this recipe: they cannot be worked out reliably from its ingredient list (some ingredient lines cannot be read). Why some recipes have none.

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