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Shrimp tacos

Name: Shrimp tacos
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 6 min
Total time: 16 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 lb shrimp, peeled; 1 tbsp chili powder; 1 tsp ground cumin; 3/4 tsp garlic powder; 3/4 tsp salt; 1 tbsp canola oil; 8 corn tortilla, warmed; 2 cups green cabbage, finely shredded; 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 1/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt; 1 lime; a handful fresh cilantro, chopped; 1 small avocado, sliced

Fifteen-minute tacos with the good ratio: chili-lime shrimp, crunchy cabbage and a lime crema, doubled corn tortillas. Faster than the taco truck line.

Time: 16 min (10 prep + 6 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 362 kcal
Protein: 23 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1 lb shrimp, peeled450 g
1 tbsp chili powder6 g
1 tsp ground cumin2 g
3/4 tsp garlic powder2 g
3/4 tsp salt4 g
1 tbsp canola oil15 g
8 corn tortilla, warmed200 g
2 cups green cabbage, finely shredded200 g

Crema

2 tbsp mayonnaise30 g
1/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt60 g
1 lime30 g

a handful fresh cilantro, chopped10 g
1 small avocado, sliced100 g

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Steps

Stir the crema together; toss a spoonful with the cabbage so it's dressed, not dry.
Toss the shrimp with the spices and salt; sear in the oil 1–2 minutes a side. Shrimp are done the moment they curl into commas — question marks are overcooked.
Warm the tortillas in the shrimp pan.
Build: cabbage, shrimp, avocado, crema, cilantro. Lime over everything.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

25% of kcal

71% water

19 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

Nothing here converges the way engineered food does — no sugar, no savoury and no alcohol penalty.

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1447 kcal goes into the pot, 1109 g of ingredients comes out as ~1000 g of food → 145 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 145
Protein: (25%); 9 g
Fat: (42%); 7 g
Carbohydrates: (33%); 12 g
of which sugar: 1 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sodium: 239 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.