Lunch & Dinner Soups

Shrimp Ceviche

Seafood can be a great diabetic friendly meal option. This recipe is not specially designed for diabetics – but is considered “diabetic friendly” as it utilizes natural high quality ingredients. Traditional ceviche usually contains raw seafood tossed with an acidic marinade that “cooks” the fish… or at least burns away any bad bacteria and tenderizes the meat.

In this recipe, we cook the shrimp before marinating it, but other than that it’s not much different than a typical ceviche recipe.

Hope you enjoy!!

Ingredients:

POACHING LIQUID

  • 2 quarts water
  • 1/4 cup kosher salt

CEVICHE

  • 1 pound raw shrimp (21-25 per pound), peeled and deveined
  • Juice of 2 lemons
  • Juice of 2 limes
  • Juice of 2 oranges
  • 1 cup diced seeded peeled cucumber (1/4-inch dice)
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
  • 2 serrano chiles, seeded and finely chopped
  • 1 cup diced seeded tomato
  • 1 avocado, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
  • 1 tablespoon roughly chopped cilantro leaves, plus more leaves for garnish
  • 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

Directions:

  1. Combine water and 1/4 cup salt in a large saucepan; bring to a boil over high heat. Add shrimp and immediately turn off the heat. Let the shrimp sit until just cooked through, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board until cool enough to handle, about 10 minutes.
  2. Chop the shrimp into 1/2-inch pieces and place in a medium nonreactive bowl (see Tip). Add lemon, lime and orange juice. Stir in cucumber, onion and chiles. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
  3. Stir tomato, avocado, chopped cilantro, oil and 1/4 teaspoon salt into the shrimp mixture. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes before serving. Garnish with cilantro leaves, if desired.

Tips & Notes

  • Make Ahead Tip: Prepare through Step 2 and refrigerate for up to 4 hours.
  • Kitchen Tip: A nonreactive bowl or pan—stainless-steel, enamel-coated or glass—is necessary when cooking with acidic foods, such as lemon, to prevent the food from reacting with the pan. Reactive pans, such as aluminum and cast-iron, can impart an off color and/or off flavor.

Nutrition Information

Per serving: 189 calories; 12 g fat (2 g sat, 8 g mono); 86 mg cholesterol; 9 g carbohydrates; 0 g added sugars; 13 g protein; 2 g fiber; 229 mg sodium; 394 mg potassium.

Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin C (48% daily value)

Carbohydrate Servings: 1/2

Exchanges: 1/2 fruit, 1 1/2 lean meat, 2 fat

(source: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/shrimp_ceviche.html)