Ten-minute shrimp avocado chopped salad
10 min · 30 g protein · 372 cals / serving
Ready-cooked shrimp tossed with a little Cajun spice over a big chopped salad of romaine, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and creamy avocado, dressed with lemon, cilantro and a spoon of olive oil. All the flavour of the much-loved shrimp avocado salad, with no pan.
Ingredients
- 10 1/2 oz boiled shrimp, ready-cooked and peeled, thawed if frozen, tails off
Cilantro-lemon dressing
- 2 tbsp lemon juice, from 1 lemon, divided
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1/3 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 hearts romaine lettuce, chopped
- 2 Roma tomatoes, chopped
- 1/2 English cucumber, sliced
- 1/4 medium red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 avocado, sliced
Steps
- Toss the shrimp with the Cajun seasoning and 1 tablespoon of the lemon juice and leave while you chop.
- Whisk the rest of the lemon juice with the olive oil, cilantro, salt and pepper in a large salad bowl.
- Add the romaine, tomatoes, cucumber and red onion and toss in the dressing. Top with the avocado and the shrimp and serve straight away.
Good to know
What about the corn?
A cup of drained canned corn is in the original and adds sweetness and crunch, about 60 kcal and 13 g of carbohydrate a portion. Leave it out and the salad stays low carb.
Can I pack it for lunch?
Keep the shrimp, the chopped vegetables and the dressing in separate boxes and slice the avocado when you eat; dressed leaves and cut avocado do not wait.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 72
- Protein
- (33%)
- 6 g
- Fat
- (50%)
- 4 g
- Carbohydrates
- (17%)
- 4 g
- of which sugar
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 180 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 743 kcal goes into the pot and 1030 g of ingredients comes out as about 1030 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.