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Far from the mayo-laden dish of the ’80s, this far lighter shrimp salad is still super flavorful. The salad is brightened it with red onion, jalapeno, fresh cilantro and a light lime/olive oil dressing.

Spoon your salad into a romaine or butter lettuce leaf, onto cucumber slices, fill up a cooked puff pastry shell or simply enjoy as is.

It’s a light entrée to add to your go-to recipe collection. And it might become be one of your favorite shrimp recipes, too.

Ingredients:

  1. ¼ cup chopped red onion
  2. 2 tbsp lime juice
  3. 1 tsp olive oil
  4. ¼ tsp salt, pepper to taste
  5. 1 medium tomato, diced
  6. 1 avocado, diced
  7. 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and diced
  8. 1 tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped
  9. 1 pound shrimp, shelled/deveined/cooked and cut into large pieces

Instructions/directions:

  1. Combine lime juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.
  2. In a large bowl, combine shrimp, avocado, tomato, red onion and pepper.
  3. Toss all with cilantro to serve.
  4. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.
  5. *I often add a bit of Trader Joe’s Everyday Seasoning to the mix.