While I was grocery shopping tonight I had the urge to make shrimp tacos. I've never made or even ate shrimp tacos before, but I knew I had to have them tonight. So I decided I felt like experimenting so I wandered over to the Latino section of the Neighborhood Market and selected some items that I thought should go in a shrimp taco and I hoped for the best.
Ingredients Purchased:
frozen cooked small shrimp (77cal per 3oz)
corn tortillas (83cal per 2)
1 can fiesta corn (50cal per 1/2 cup)
1 can Mexican salsa (10cal per 2 TBSP)
1 red pepper - diced (46cal per 1 cup chopped)
1 bag shredded lettuce (10cal per 1 1/2 cup)
1 tub of Greek plain yogurt (130cal per 1 cup)
1 prayer that it will taste good (0cal)!
Directions: rinse 1 serving size shrimp with cool water for a 2-3min to bring to room temperature. Combine in saucepan diced red pepper, Mexican salsa, fiesta corn. Sprinkle with your seasoning of choice. (for me: cilantro, salt, pepper, minced onion) - heat until warm. Next warm shrimp in another saucepan with a little cooking spray. Now you build your tacos with shrimp, spoonful of corn salsa mix, about a TBSP of Greek yogurt and a pinch of lettuce and you are done. I ended up topping it all with a little taco sauce and lime juice to give it some pep! I like a little spice.
Review: 3 out of 5 stars. Overall I thought they tasted good. I would like a little more flavor next time. The tortilla was not my favorite part, I want to try a different brand or go with a flour tortilla vs. a corn tortilla. Also I thought about adding some avocado, yum! When I make these again I'm going to spice them up some more maybe with a spicier taco sauce or straight up hot sauce. I'll have to do some Google research to see what others suggest to spice up shrimp tacos.
How this fits into my low calorie lifestyle: I estimate about 89.5 calories per taco - I ate 3 tonight for dinner (268 calories). Which makes me a very happy girl! Be careful if you add avocado to it, there is about 322 calories in 1 avocado - you can get about 10 slices from and avocado putting it at 32.2 cal per slice - if I add this I would only put 1 slice on each taco.
I had some shrimp fajitas the other day. I have decided that I don't think I like shrimp wrapped up in a tortilla, I prefer it in other ways.
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