EASY RECIPE
While surfing recipes, for a light Monday night meatless dinner, I came across an interesting shrimp salad recipe on the Skinny Recipe blog. As usual I couldn’t leave well enough alone, so after some thought I tweaked the recipe to arrive at my Easy Southwest Shrimp Salad.
recipe serves 4.
Ingredients:
3/4 pound of pre-cooked medium shrimp – sliced in half or thirds depending on size.
1/2 cup red onion chopped.
1 lime – juiced.
1 tablespoon virgin olive oil.
1 beefsteak size tomato – diced.
1 avocado – diced.
1 jalapeño – seeded and minced.
1/4 cup kalamata olives – sliced.
1/2 cup gorgonzola cheese -crumbled.
1 bag spring lettuce mixture.
Preparation:
To a large mixing bowl add: onion, jalapeño, tomato, lime juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. Stir to mix.
To mixing bowl add avocado, shrimp, and kalamata slices, and gently stir to mix.
To four plates add spring lettuce mixture, top with shrimp mixture, and finish by crumbling gorgonzola cheese over each salad.
That’s all there is to making super quick and crazy easy Southwest Shrimp Salad!
AND STUFF
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Good Eating and Table Talk,
Roger
