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Shrimp and Couscous Salad
This delicious meal-in-one dish blends many interesting tastes and textures. Serve with whole grain bread.
Ingredients
- Salad:300mL water
- 200g couscous, uncooked
- 5mL sesame oil
- 230g shrimp, medium, peeled and deveined, uncooked
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 150g frozen green peas, thawed
- 9g cilantro, chopped
- 8 lettuce leaves
- 20g toasted sesame seeds
- Dressing:60mL rice vinegar
- 30mL soy sauce, low sodium
- 10mL sesame oil
- 1 clove garlic, minced
Directions
- Bring water to a boil in a sauce pan, stir in couscous. Cover and remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. When cool, fluff couscous with a fork.
- Heat oil in a nonstick skillet and add shrimp. Sauté just until pink.
- In a large bowl, combine couscous, shrimp, red pepper, peas and cilantro.
- In a small bowl, mix together rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil and garlic. Pour over couscous mixture and toss well.
- Serve salad on a bed of lettuce leaves and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 467
Calories from Fat 71 (15%)
(13%)Total Fat 9g
(6%)Saturated Fat 1g
Poly-Unsaturated Fat 4g
Mono-Unsaturated Fat 2g
(29%)Cholesterol 86mg
(23%)Sodium 560mg
(78%)Potassium 2737mg
Total Carbohydrate 80g
(79%)Dietary Fibre 20g
Sugars 3g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(65%)Protein 32g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Nutrition facts are calculated by a food expert using nutritional values provided by the USDA for common products used as recipe ingredients. Actual nutritional values may differ depending on the amounts or products used and can be affected by cooking methods.
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