Chilled Green Soup with Spicy Cilantro + Lime Shrimp
- August 12, 2015
Jennifer Anthony
This chilled green soup is nutrition-packed and tastes great topped with spicy shrimp with lots of cilantro.
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INGREDIENTS
For Soup
1 apple, deseeded and quartered
4 ribs celery, roughly chopped
1 cup fresh sunflower sprouts
½ avocado
4 cups baby greens (spinach, kale, chard etc.)
¼ cup fresh cilantro
juice of 2 limes
3 cups cold water
sea salt & pepper to taste
For Shrimp
1 tbsp olive oil
1 jalapeno pepper, minced
1 lb shrimp, shelled and deveined
¼ cup cilantro, chopped
juice of 1 lime
sea salt + pepper
For Garnish
avocado, thinly sliced
cilantro leaves
DIRECTIONS
1
For Soup: Add all soup ingredients into a Vitamix or other high powered blender. (If you don't have a Vitamix, you may want to chop ingredients smaller to help your blender out!) Blend all ingredients until smooth. Place soup mixture in refrigerator to chill - you may want to chill for at least 1/2 hour before cooking shrimp or make ahead.
For Shrimp: Add olive oil to a skillet and add jalapeno pepper. After about 1 minute, add shrimp and cook until they turn pink. Add fresh cilantro and lime juice, salt and pepper to taste.
To Serve: Pour green soup into shallow bowl. Place shrimp on top with avocado and cilantro to garnish. Serve and enjoy!
COUNTS AS
3 Proteins, 1 1/2 Vegetables, 1/4 Fruit, 1 Fat
NOTES
As many of you know, I sure love green food.
I also love recipes that are packed with nutrition, require minimal effort, and can be eaten multiple days in a row!
This recipe fulfills these requirements perfectly.
A special shout out to one of the star ingredients of this recipe: fresh sunflower sprouts.
Sunflower sprouts are an incredibly underused nutritional powerhouse. Not only are they packed with great nutrients like zinc and B vitamins (especially folate), but they are also a uniquely great source of vegetarian protein and amino acids.
I like to think of their nutritional power in terms of their potential to grow into a great big sunflower plant. All that they need to become big and strong (minus the sunlight and water, of course) is packed right into that little sprout. Wow!)
Shopping Tip: Sometimes sunflower sprouts can be hard to find in your local grocery store – I recommend trying Whole Foods first to save time searching for them and maybe even call ahead to see if they have them in stock.
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Nutrition Facts
Servings 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 209
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 10g16%
- Total Carbohydrate 15g5%
- Dietary Fiber 6g24%
- Sugars 5g
- Protein 31g62%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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