One of our favorite meals to make in my house are tacos! And making them a seafood taco makes them even better :) So here are 2 different recipes for some healthy shrimp tacos. I did one sweet and the other spicy. Mine are the sweet ones and my husbands are the spicy ones...even though I ate both kinds because they were so delicious!
First start with your rice since that takes the longest in this meal. I always use my rice cooker and it takes about 30 minutes for white rice.
1. For two people I usually just cook 1 cup of rice because it doubles. So start with a cup of rice, cilantro, and a lime.
2. Just put all the ingredients in your rice cooker and let it do the rest! I always leave half of a lime in the rice cooker just so it can soak up more of the lime juice.
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Yields: 2 cups of cooked rice
Ingredients:
1 cup uncooked white rice
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
1 lime squeezed, juice
Now with the shrimp! Shrimp cooks really fast and it is important to not over cook it. All they need is to be cooked for one to two minutes per side.
1. De-shell and de-vein the shrimp.
2. In 2 different pans heat them on medium heat and add a tiny bit of olive oil. These recipes are suppose to be healthy and NOT loaded with oil and butter.
3. After the pan and oil are hot, add your shrimp and wait one to two minutes and then flip. They are done on one side when they turn white and red.
4. After they are done cooking, turn off the heat and then add your sauce!
So here are the two flavors I did:
Honey-Mustard Shrimp
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. honey
1/2 tbsp. cider vinegar
1/4 tsp. dry mustard
pepper
Note: I took a pound of jumbo shrimp and divided them in half for both recipes. Each sauce covered 10 shrimp.
Chipotle-Lime Shrimp
Ingredients:
2 tbsp. lime juice (about 2 whole limes)
1/4 - 1/2 tsp chipotle seasoning
pepper
I added 1/2 tsp chipotle seasoning and they were really spicy but really good! My husband loves his spicy foods.
Note: I took a pound of jumbo shrimp and divided them in half for both recipes. Each sauce covered 10 shrimp.
Here is the final result! I put mine in lettuce leaves to cut back on some carbs but how you decide to load your taco's up is completely up to you :)
