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    Shrimp or Lobster Fra Diavolo (sp) is indeed an Italian dish. I
    don't really have a recipe, but I've made it at home quite a few times, 
    and it comes out pretty good.
    
    Start with a good (home-made) Marinara sauce, clean and devein the shrimp
    you plan to use, 4-6 large shrimp per person should do. Add the
    shrimp to the heated Marinara sauce, also add chrushed red pepper
    to taste. I like it HOT! Cook till the shrimp are pink and done
    throughout, but take care not to overcook. Certainly no more than
    5 minutes. Note that your sauce will be a little thin since the
    water from the shrimp will thin the sauce as they cook. You might
    want to start with a thicker Marinara if you don't like a thin
    sauce.
    
    Serve the shrimp with sauce on a bed of linguine, cooked Al Dente, or
    on a bed of angel hair pasta if you prefer. It can be served
    over spaghetti, but Linguine is the traditional way to serve it. Serve
    this with some crusty Italian bread for dipping in the sauce, and of
    course, some nice wine.
    
    It's good!
    
    mike
    made it as

    
    SHRIMP DIABLO
    
    This recipe is not HOT, but you can add Louisiana Hot Sauce and
    crushed red pepper to suit yourself.  It is, however, a super recipe
    and sooooo easy.  Following recipe is for 2 people, so multiply
    it for yourself.		
    
    Cook linguini, drain and put in a buttered casserole dish.
    Add pats of butter, quartered tomato, quartered onion, quartered
    pepper.  Mushrooms are optional - some parsley.  Add whatever
    spices you like.  Top with raw shrimp.
    
    This is the important part!
    
    Cover with aluminum foil.  This must be covered as tightly as possible
    so no air can get in.  Bake in oven 20 min. at 450 degrees.  The
    idea is to steam this dish.  It makes it's own juice. 
    
    Barbara

If you really like it HOT you can try using Chinese hot chili oil instead of
red pepper.  We made a similar chinese pasta dish which called for 1 TBS of
chili oil.  Having previously experimented with the oil, we use 1 tps instead.
The dish still came close to blistering nose, tongue, throat, etc.  It's good
stuff!

PBR

	Does anybody else have a Shrimp Fra Diablo recipe?  I'd 
	actually like to make it with Chicken.  The recipe here
	with the marinara sauce sounds most like what I've had
	in restaurants but the ingredients for the marinara are
	not listed.

	Is marinara just like spagetti sauce?

	Karen

	It's Fra Diavolo, I'm pretty sure.  Spaghetti sauce is generic -
	marinara is made without meat.  See 927.5 or 2891.2 if you want
	to take a look at some recipes.

	D.
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    Sorry I didn't list a recipe for sauce, but again, I don't
    really have a recipe for sauce. I use a recipe that's been
    handed down for some time, and I vary it just a little bit
    each time depending on my mood or what's available. 
    
    The previous note is correct, Marinara is a meatless sauce, and 
    it is Fra Diavolo, not Diablo. I think Fra Diavolo means hot or spicy.
    
    Next time I make sauce, I'll see if I can keep some written notes
    on what I use. If you don't make your own sauce, you can use a 
    marinara from a jar.
    
    mike
    

    
    re: .9
    
    >>  I think Fra Diavolo means hot or spicy.
    
    Literally, it means 'Brother Devil' in Italian, which certainly evokes
    an image of hot and spicy to me.
    
    'Diablo' means 'devil' in Spanish and, I assume, would have the same
    connotation.