Arepas with Shrimp Creole Recipe | olivemagazine

Ingredients

• 400g masa repa or harina pan (see notes below)
• 1 tsp sea salt flakes
• 1 tsp vegetable oil plus a little extra for frying or use clarified butter for frying (see notes below)
• for dusting plain flour
• 8 eggs
• 2 avocado sliced and mixed with juice of 1 lime
• a small bunch coriander leaves torn
• to serve hot sauce
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 4 rashers smoked streaky bacon chopped
• ½ onion finely diced
• 1 small green pepper finely diced
• 1 stick celery finely diced
• 1 clove garlic crushed
• 1 tbsp tomato purée
• ½ x 400g tin plum tomatoes
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• a few good dashes Tabasco
• 100g cooked prawns
• chopped to make 1 tbsp flat-leaf parsley