Simple, but' Scrumptious' Jumbo Shrimp Tacos

(Recipe to make 2 tacos each for 2 persons:)

Ingredients:

- 4 - 8" soft flour tortillas
- 8- 10 Jumbo shrimps (i.e. prawns - 16-20 to the lb. size)- each sliced into 2 or 3 smallish bite-sized pieces

- Accompanying ingredients to toss over the fried shrimp pieces for finishing the tacos: (After sauteeing the shrimp pieces in melted butter for 2-3 minutes to cook them through & lightly brown them, just before you're ready to finish assembling the tacos).

Combine:

- Approx. 1 & 1/2 cups or so of finely shredded red or green cabbage
- 2 -4 finely slivered (julienne cut) green onions (green parts only)
- 1/4 jalapeno pepper, finely diced (seeds & inside ribs removed)
- Juice of 1/2 lime mixed through the above greens


Sauce to spoon and partially spread over the lightly browned & heated tortillas before adding the fried shrimps; & also later drizzled over the combined greens placed on top of the shrimps to finish the tacos:

Combine:

- 3 tbspns of both sour cream and mayo,
- 1-2 heaping tbspns of store-bought seafood sauce,
- Juice of the other 1/2 of the lime,
- Dash of sugar
- Optional: several dashes of your favorite hot sauce, or 1/4 tspn finely diced jalapeno pepper (again - no seeds or ribs) for those who like more heat !


To sum up for clarity:

- Prepare the greens mixture ahead

- Also prepare the sauce ahead

- Fry the shrimps pieces in butter to cook & lightly brown,

- Separately warm & lightly brown the tortillas

- Spread some sauce on each warmed tortilla, over which you then add 6 or so pieces of the cooked shrimps to each tortilla

- Add a moderate handful of the mixed greens over the layered shrimp pieces on each taco, and drizzle more sauce over the greens

- Fold the tacos & enjoy !

Suggestion:

If you wish you could sprinkle a bit of this ' dry rub' mixture over the shrimp pieces before frying:

- 1/4 tspn each of dry powdered cumin, cayenne, celery salt, paprika, coriander, chili powder, salt and pepper, and, if you have it, ancho chile powder.

Anything shrimp for me! I'll be giving this a try!!

Sounds really good Paul! I love shrimp, may try this sometime. Thanks for the recipe!
Barb