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.
Re: Simple, but' Scrumptious' Jumbo Shrimp Tacos
Anything shrimp for me! I'll be giving this a try!!
Re: Simple, but' Scrumptious' Jumbo Shrimp Tacos
Sounds really good Paul! I love shrimp, may try this sometime. Thanks for the recipe!
Barb