Meals · Stir-fries & fried rice
Paleo shrimp fried cauliflower rice
Plump shrimp, soft scrambled egg, carrots, broccoli and mushrooms stir-fried with cauliflower rice in one big pan, seasoned with coconut aminos, a little fish sauce and lime. It has the savoury, smoky taste of takeout fried rice, on the table in 35 minutes.
- Time
- 35 min (15 prep + 20 cook)
- Servings
- 4
- Per serving
- 327 kcal
- Protein
- 33 g
Ingredients
- 3 eggs, beaten with a pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp avocado oil, divided
- 1 1/3 lb shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 3/4 tsp salt, divided
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 2 medium carrots, finely diced
- 2 tsp ginger, grated
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 cups broccoli, cut in small florets
- 6 cups cauliflower rice, fresh or frozen
- 1 heaping cup crimini mushroom, sliced
- 1/4 cup coconut aminos, divided
- 1 tsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 4 green onions, sliced
- 1 tsp sesame oil, toasted, stirred in off the heat (optional)
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes (optional)
Steps
- Heat 1 teaspoon of the oil in a large wok or the largest skillet you have over medium-low heat. Add the eggs and stir for 1–2 minutes until softly set with no liquid left (160°F). Tip them onto a plate.
- Raise the heat to medium-high and add another teaspoon of oil. Season the shrimp with half the salt and cook for 2–3 minutes a side, until pink and opaque all the way through (145°F). Tip them out with the eggs.
- Add the remaining oil. Stir-fry the onion, carrot and ginger with the remaining salt for 3 minutes, add the garlic for 30 seconds, then the broccoli for 2 more minutes.
- Add the cauliflower rice, mushrooms, 3 tablespoons of the aminos and the fish sauce. Cook for 5–6 minutes without a lid, stirring only now and then so the cauliflower browns a little. A lid would steam it and make it wet.
- Return the shrimp and eggs with the last tablespoon of aminos, the lime juice, green onion and chili flakes, if using. Toss for 1 minute until everything is hot. Off the heat, stir in the sesame oil, taste for salt and serve straight away.
Good to know
Can I use frozen cauliflower rice?
Yes, cook it from frozen and give it 2–3 minutes longer in the pan, uncovered, until the water it releases has gone.
Can I use chicken instead?
Yes, thinly sliced chicken breast works well at about 72 instead of 75. Cook it to 165°F in step 2, a little longer than the shrimp need.
Is sesame oil paleo?
A strict paleo kitchen leaves out seed oils. It is here as a single teaspoon of seasoning for aroma and not as a cooking oil, which is how most popular paleo versions of this dish use it. If you avoid it, leave it out: the dish still works and is a little less nutty.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 72
- Protein
- (41%)
- 7 g
- Fat
- (32%)
- 3 g
- Carbohydrates
- (27%)
- 6 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 245 mg
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As written, 1310 kcal goes into the pot and 2129 g of ingredients comes out as about 1814 g of food: 72 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.