Shrimp Tacos with Avocado, Grapefruit, and Creamy Cilantro Sauce

Yes, it tastes phenomenal. So we finally just switched over to spring, adjusted our watches, and for some reason I start thinking about healthy food and exercising and all this weird stuff that comes with spring fever.  

Jump to:

• 🧾 Ingredients
• 🔪 Preparation
• 🥘 Cooking
• 🥣 Making the salsa
• 🥄 Making the creamy cilantro sauce
• 🌮 Assembling the tacos
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Let’s just talk about food here and leave the exercise part for another time. I’m craving a light, crunchy, citrusy, spicy, quick, tasty, and easy kind of dish. And I realize I have to go to the store anyway.

My essential pantry has me covered for most of the ingredients. All I need is some fresh cilantro and a tomato. I always have a grapefruit and a perfectly ripe avocado handy, as I eat half of each as part of my breakfast every day.

Now think about the texture and the flavor of these ingredients: Firm, slightly spicy shrimp on a bed of creamy avocado and tart grapefruit, mixed with tomatoes, and topped off with a lemony, creamy cilantro sauce. All inside a hard corn taco shell or flour tortilla, or a few of each.

Once you have the ingredients ready, it will take you maybe 30 minutes from start to wow, that’s phenomenal!

And I don’t always drink beer, but then I look at all the lime slices on the cutting board and I think, “but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Stay thirsty, my friends."

🧾 Ingredients

Shrimp

• Shrimp
• Hot sauce
• Chili powder
• Salt and pepper
• Olive oil

Salsa

• Tomato
• Pink or red grapefruit
• Avocado, chopped
• Fresh lime juice
• Cilantro
• Salt

Creamy cilantro sauce

• Sour cream
• Fresh cilantro
• Salt

Other ingredients

Soft or hard tacos, your preference

See the recipe card below for full list of ingredients and their measurements.

🔪 Preparation

Mix chili, hot sauce, salt, & pepper together. Toss with shrimp and let marinate 10 minutes.

🥘 Cooking

Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a Lodge cast iron pan and cook shrimp until pink and curled, about 5 minutes. Set aside.

🥣 Making the salsa

Combine all salsa ingredients in a bowl, stir, and set aside.

🥄 Making the creamy cilantro sauce

Stir together sour cream and cilantro in a bowl, and set aside.

🌮 Assembling the tacos

Assemble taco or tortilla by first putting in the salsa, add 3 shrimp to each, top with sour cream-cilantro sauce, and then add a generous squeeze of lime juice over the top.

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