Mexican
Chili Lime Shrimp Tacos
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Chili Lime Shrimp Tacos is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Toss the shrimp with the chili powder, cumin, minced garlic, the juice of one lime, and salt.
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Mash the avocados with the juice of another lime and half the cilantro to make a quick crema.
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Toss the cabbage with the remaining lime juice and cilantro for a bright slaw.
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Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium-high and cook the shrimp until pink and just opaque, about 2 minutes per side.
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Warm the corn tortillas until soft and pliable.
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Build each taco with slaw, shrimp, and a spoonful of the avocado crema.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chili Lime Shrimp Tacos, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chili Lime Shrimp Tacos carries shellfish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 470 kcal
- Protein
- 37 g
- Carbs
- 38 g
- Fat
- 19 g
- Fiber
- 9 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 620 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chili Lime Shrimp Tacos takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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