Sopa de camarao/ Shrimp or prawn soup is a light creamy soup with the bold flavors of shrimps/prawns. This is a soup of the portuguese past days in Goa. I guess in our household we ate a lot of vegetable soup with macaroni and bread soup made from previous day leftover bread. I think I must have made this recipe once’s or twice. If you visit Goa it would be a hard soup to find compared to the chinese soups that are popular in Goa.
What I love about the soup other than it’s very seafood smell 🙂 is that it is a lighter soup compared to clam chowder. Adding diced potatoes and tomatoes is an option. I have added tomatoes for some color. I do want to mention that I used red onions as I forgot my grocery bag with white onions at the grocery store till I was ready to cook and realized I left one whole bag of groceries at the store on my way out.
Serving Size: 4-6
Ingredients:
20-25 small shrimps shelled and deveined
1/2 finely diced white onions
3 tbsp of butter
3 cloves of garlic diced finely
1 small tomato diced finely
3 tbsp of white flour
3 cups water
1 cup milk
1 vegetable bouillon
salt to flavor
Directions:
Wash the shrimps, apply a little salt keep aside.
Melt butter in a pot add the chopped onions and saute till soft.
Next add the tomatoes, garlic and saute for 1 minute.
To this add the flour and mix it for about a minute.
Gently add a little water to form a roux and take out all lumps.
Add the shrimps/ prawns and the remaining water stir gently and cook on medium heat till it comes to a boil.
Finally add 1 cup cold milk, season with bouillon and salt. Bring it to a boil again.
Serve hot with some oyster cracker, saltines or croutons. When we were kids we also dipped bread in the soup (psst…I still do it 🙂 )
I made this soup at home, its super delicious. Perfect for winters.
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Perfect ! Yummy!
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Thank You Sindhu 🙂
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Looks delish !
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Thank You 🙂
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Looks yummy! Am going to be hard work catching up on so many recipes. Thanks from
akinotxilis.
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Thank you for this recipe 🙂
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You are so welcome 🙂
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Lovely!!
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Thank You Much 🙂
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Looks so tempting. Luckily I have shrimps in my fridge, gonna make it soon. 😛
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Thank You Ankita 🙂
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This is a must! Even I should manage to do it without messing it up… let’s hope! 😉
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I am sure you will not mess it up 🙂
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😉
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That looks delicious! I’ll have to try it.
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Thank You so much Lizzbert 🙂
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I’ve never heard of this soup! Looks very appeizing, Nandini! Saving it 🙂
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Thank Freda, I am so happy to hear that. It’s an old school soup possibly a dying recipe in Goa.
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This looks like an delicious and easy soup. Thanks for the share.
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Thank You! It is a easy soup 🙂
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mmm. . . this soup looks wonderful.
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Thank You so much Sheryl 🙂
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This looks delicious!
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Thank You so much J.B 🙂
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Mmmm, that soup looks good enough to cure what ails you. I hope you went back and got your missing bag of groceries! – Kat
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No Kat I did not. It’s the 3 rd time around and it’s always a day later that I realise it .
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deeply delicious – no words…
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Thank You Mihrank so much 🙂
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Heya Nandini!
‘SOPA DE CAMARAO RECIETA’ looks absolutely FINGER-LICKING.Proud to know of Our PORTUGUESE CONNECTION. Great to learn that GOAN FOOD is influenced by the PORTUGUESE.My surname ‘RODRIGUES’ is a very well know surname in the UK.As there are many football players Who bear that surname. I am going to shot an email to all My friends and relatives all over the globe with this amazing recipe. They will be ‘OVER THE MOON’.Nandini, Your photo shots look PHENOMENAl as always.This soup will be a ‘NICE WARMER’ for the British winter.Thanks for sharing Your expertise with Me/Us.What more could We wish for?At that ‘I WILL PULL THE PLUG’.
Have a Pleasant WEEK AHEAD!
With Our kindest best regards
Stan & Lin
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Thank You so much Mr Stan. Guess you are famous now :-). We have the Copa Americano Games going on for the past 1 week. Wishing you and Mrs Stan too a lovely week 🙂
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good use for shrimp, will have to try this and scale it to a smaller portion, similar to a chowder recipe. YUM !
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Thank You so much 🙂
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This looks like a really quick and tasty recipe. Like you say in your intro, I like the fact that it seems to be a lighter version of a chowder which I can often find too rich. I have all the ingredients for this right now so I might make it this week…looks great for a week night meal 🙂
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Thank You so much. It is perfect for a week night with some bread on the side as it is quick to whip it up 🙂
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Sopa de Camarao sounds delicious. However, it should read Receita de Sopa de Camarao.
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Thank You Antusa for the correction. I was being lazy and thought the 2 “de” would be too confusing. I will take your advise and do the corrections 🙂
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I adore shrimps. I’m making this soon. Lovely appetising colour it has 🙂
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Thank You so much will look forward to your feedback 🙂
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Will share with you since you gave me the recipe 🙂
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Fabulous, Amiga.
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Muchas Gracias Amiga 🙂
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It looks so good, Nandini. I want it right now. I wish someone can cook this for me. Delicious.<3
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Aww…thank You Anna that is so sweet of you to say. Come over I will make some for you 🙂
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Looks delicious & beautiful pictures!
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Thank you so much Andrea for your kind words 🙂
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I cannot wait to give this a go!
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That is so awesome Diana 🙂
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Hi Nandini! This soup looks delicious!
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Thank You Debbie so much 🙂
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Definitely one for me. My husband would ask for chillies though! Being English we always have bread with soups, it’s the only way 🙂
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Thank You Amanda. I too love to dip my bread in soups 🙂
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I can’t wait to try this, looks and sounds so good.
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Thank You Gina so much 🙂
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Looks delicious, and your images just get better and better.
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Thank You so much Darryl for you kind comment 🙂
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Looks so tasty! 😀
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Thank You so much Annika 🙂
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Soup looks wonderful! And i love seafood specially prawns.
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That is really awesome and Thank You so much 🙂
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Hell yeah!!
Forwarding this one on to my cook friend….. 🙂
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Thank You so much. Appreciate your kind gesture 🙂
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🙂 She is just as keen ads I!!! 😉
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This really looks delicious and the images are beautiful….
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Thank You so much Swapna 🙂
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Super soup 😋
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Thank You so much Frances 🙂
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Yum Yum Yum 🙂 This looks beautiful Nandini, will try it for sure!
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Thank You so much Jin, I am so happy to hear that 🙂
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Looks so hearty!
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It is Chris specially if you add potatoes and still light because of the milk 🙂
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Wow!!! simple and flavourful!!! I guess the garlic and tomatoes must lend a great punch to this soup…
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Yes Shy, I liked the combination of them both the slight acidity from the tomatoes made the difference to a very savory soup 🙂
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Lovely Nandini – I expected it to involve a few spices – so surprised to see its spice free….
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Yes Laura, it is a very simple recipe as compared to the sopa’s from the rest parts of the world the flavor is all from the camarao with a hint of butter and garlic 🙂
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This looks delicious! I’m going to make this tomorrow! Thanks for a great recipe!
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Thank You so much. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do 🙂
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Perfect 🙂 Life is Good !
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Thank You Hans 🙂
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nom nom nom
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Thanks Much, Jim 🙂
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Miam, miam! This looks so good!
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Thank You Deborah so much 🙂
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MP!
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…yet another delectable dish you’ve shared with us! Will definitely put this one on my table😎
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Thank You so much. I am so happy to hear that. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do 🙂
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