Greek Millet Saganaki With Shrimp

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As writer Maria Speck cites successful her cookbook, "Ancient Grains for Modern Meals" (Ten Speed Press, 2011), the cultivation of millet arsenic a full atom tin beryllium traced arsenic acold backmost arsenic 10,000 years ago. But its versatility and quality to navigator rapidly puts it squarely successful the campy of specified modern staples arsenic polenta and couscous.

"Saganaki" refers to the two-handled skillet that Greeks traditionally usage to marque and service one-pot dishes.

This look calls for ouzo oregon different anise-flavored liqueur, but if you'd alternatively omit the alcohol, soak 1 full prima anise successful 1/3 cupful precise blistery h2o for 10 minutes, past adhd the h2o and anise to the cookware alternatively of the liqueur. Remember to discard the prima anise earlier serving.

Ingredients

For the millet

1 1/4 cups water
3/4 cupful millet
1 bay leaf
Pinch good oversea salt

For the saganaki and shrimp

1 tiny yellowish onion
1 tiny serrano oregon thai bird's-eye chile pepper
1 clove garlic
1/2 cupful (about 8) pimento-stuffed greenish olives
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 spoon good oversea salt, positive much arsenic needed
2 tablespoons herb paste
1 lb shell-on, uncooked jumbo (u-16) shrimp
28 ounces canned, crushed, no-salt-added tomatoes, positive their juices
4 ounces feta cheese, preferably sheep's milk
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper, positive much arsenic needed
1/3 cupful ouzo oregon different anise-flavored liqueur (for substitution, spot headnote)
Leaves from 6 to 8 stems flat-leaf parsley, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
570
Fat
21 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
45 g
Sodium
970 mg
Cholesterol
200 mg
Protein
35 g
Fiber
7 g
Sugar
10 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look successful Speck's "Ancient Grains for Modern Meals" (Ten Speed Press, 2011).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published January 17, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026