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Showing posts with label cilantro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cilantro. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Cilantro Lime Shrimp

Okay...so you know I have to cook this kind of stuff while IT Guy is out of the house because he's a spoiled sport and won't eat seafood. He really doesn't know what he's missing because this was gooooooooooooooood! I served mine over rice but if you've just got a hankerin' for shrimp by itself then that's what you should do. Eat it and don't be shy! I loved this over rice but serving it over pasta would work. Delicious and easy!!!

Cilantro Lime Rice



1 pound shrimp ~ cleaned, deveined, patted dry
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 cloves garlic ~ minced
Salt and pepper to taste
1 half of a lime
3 - 4 tablespoons fresh chopped cilantro

In a small bowl, combine the shrimp, cumin and salt and pepper.

Heat a large skillet over medium heat.

Add the olive oil then add the seasoned shrimp.

Cook shrimp for 3 - 5 minutes, turning often, until done.

Squeeze lime over shrimp, add chopped cilantro then stir to combine.

Serve alone or over pasta or rice.

Here's all you need. 
Here's all you need.

Season the shrimp with the cumin and salt and pepper. 
Season the shrimp with the 
cumin and salt and pepper.

Cook it real quick with some olive oil in a large skillet. 
Cook it real quick with some 
olive oil in a large skillet.

Then add the lime juice and the cilantro. 
Then add the lime juice and the cilantro.

So easy and SO good! 
So easy and SO good!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Grilled Corn & Avocado Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing

Oh man...I love this! I'd never grilled corn before so I pulled out my cast iron skillet and gave it whirl. I added all the other things I love and thought would go well and it turned out great! The dressing is REALLY good. Slightly sweet due to the honey and the lime flavor comes through at the end. Just really tasty!! A really good little summer salad!



Grilled Corn & Avocado Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing

Dressing

1/2 cup cilantro ~ stems removed
1 6-ounce container plain yogurt
1/4 cup olive oil
juice from 1 lime
3 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
1 - 2 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt

Place all ingredients in a food processor and blend until well combined. Chill.


Here's what you need for the dressing.


Put everything into a food processor and blend.


See? Easy peasy. Chill in the fridge 
for a while to let the flavors blend.


Grilled Corn Salad

2 - 3 tablespoons olive oil
3 cups corn
1 cup cherry tomatoes
1 small red onion ~ diced
1 red bell pepper ~ diced
2 avocados ~ diced

Coat the bottom of a hot cast iron skillet with olive oil.

Pour in corn and allow to cook until lightly browned.

Remove corn from pan.

Add a little more olive oil and saute onion and bell pepper until tender/crisp.

Add corn back into pan, along with the cherry tomatoes and heat through.

Pour mixture into a bowl, cover and allow to come to room temperature.

Serve with Cilantro Lime Dressing.



Now for the salad.


Put the corn in a hot skillet with some olive oil.


Allow it to brown a little bit.


Remove the corn from the skillet then 
saute the onion and bell pepper for a bit.


Add the corn back in along with 
the tomatoes and heat through.


Place the mixture in a bowl and 
allow to come to room temp.


Then add the diced avocados.


Serve with the dressing!!! Yummers!