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Garlic Shrimp Caesar Salad

This salad as a main dish is super healthy, quick to make and results in a very fresh satisfying dinner (or lunch)! Choose whatever vegetables you like, cook up all 2lbs of shrimp - even if it's just you and your significant other! Leftovers are excellent and everything will be prepped!
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Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Course Main Course, Salad
Cuisine American
Servings 4 People
Calories 326 kcal

Ingredients
  

Sauted Shrimp

  • 2 Lbs Argentinian Shrimp - Costco in the Frozen Section, Thawed
  • 6-8 cloves Garlic - Peeled and minced
  • 2 Tbl Butter
  • 2 Tbl EVOO

Salad Fixin's

  • 1 Head Romaine - Cleaned and Chopped
  • ½ Cucumber - Cleaned and Chopped
  • 2 Roma Tomatoes - Cleaned and Chopped
  • ½ Green Pepper - Cleaned and Chopped

Homemade Caesar Salad Dressing

Homemade Croutons

Instructions
 

Make the Caesar Salad Dressing if you haven't already

    Make the Croutons if you haven't already

      Chop the Vegetables

      • Clean and chop the lettuce, cucumber, pepper and tomatoes - place into a big bowl.

      Cook the Shrimp

      • Prep the garlic. Choose how many cloves you want to use. I went fairly heavy. Shrimp go great with garlic ! Smash the cloves under your knife and then remove the peel / skin of the garlic. Mince the garlic finely.
      • Get out a BIG pan - and melt some butter in some EVOO. Add the shrimp and the garlic and stir. Add S&P. Saute about 2 - 2.5 minutes per side on medium. The shrimp should turn from white to light pink. Toss / turn over the shrimp and cook on the second side for 2 - 2.5 minutes. Taste one. Are they done enough? Dave had me cook the shrimp one more minute...
      • Remove the shrimp from the pan and keep the juices with the shrimp for flavor - especially if you aren't going to eat them all immediately.

      Notes

      I cook up all the shrimp.  2 Lbs is a lot for 4 people - but you may go through it.  Alternately you could have left overs. 
      Calories were calculated just for the shrimp and veggies.  The crouton and Caesar Dressing calories are on those recipes.  Appx 128 calories for a serving of croutons and another 147 for the dressing.  So an entire meal will be about ~600 calories.  

      Nutrition

      Calories: 326kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 34gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 302mgSodium: 1347mgPotassium: 813mgFiber: 4gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 14565IUVitamin C: 25mgCalcium: 194mgIron: 2mg
      Keyword Caesar Salad, Caesar Salad Dressing, Garlic, Shrimp
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