Guess what time it is? It’s Secret Recipe time!
This months assignment for the Secret Recipe Club was for me to go sneak around A Spoonful of Thyme’s food blog. The site belongs to Kate who is a seasoned traveler (I’m a little jealous here) and her lovely food blog is filled with many, many delicious savory and sweet recipes. Usually I am tempted to go for the sweet recipes but Kate has numerous wonderful shrimp dishes and shrimp is what was on my mind that particular day. And so I pondered for a while over the shrimp dishes and finally settled on this Shrimp and Lime Cocktail.
This shrimp cocktail is a zesty little dish and it’s quick and very easy to prepare. The combination of the tangy lime, sweet ketchup with a little heat from the hot sauce is delicious. The only thing I did differently was to serve it on a bed of baby spinach or even better you could also use finely shredded lettuce. Thanks Kate for sharing your wonderful recipe with all of us 🙂
Ingredients:
1 lb large peeled and deveined shrimp
1 teaspoon grated lime peel
1/4 cup lime juice
1/4 cup dry white wine
1/2 cup ketchup
a dash of hot sauce (optional)
baby spinach or shredded lettuce
Directions:
Cook peeled and deveined shrimp for 3 minutes or until pink, careful not to over-cook. Place in refrigerator to cool.
Using a microplane, grate the green outer layer of the lime and place in a small bowl. Juice the lime and pour juice over the grated peel. Add wine, ketchup and hot sauce (if desired) to lime juice/peel, stir to combine. Pour liquid over shrimp and stir to cover shrimp. Place shrimp back into refrigerator and marinate for at least 3-4 hours, preferably overnight. Serve shrimp cold on a bed of baby spinach or shredded lettuce. Enjoy!
Source: adapted from A Spoonful of Thyme
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Thank you so much everyone for all of your very nice comments. I appreciate every single one of them 🙂
Great recipe – I love the colour of the lime juice, and all the colours in general. It looks like spring!
That sounds delicious! I love shrimp cocktail in any form. I like that you laid it on a bed of lettuce as well. It adds an extra crunch and a bit more health to the overall dish. A great choice for the secret recipe!
I am making this very soon, what a delicious sounding recipe and so simple.
If you haven’t already, I’d love for you to check out my Group ‘A’ SRC entry: Crunchy Fudgy Heart Bites
Lisa~~
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I’ve recently started following your blog and the two recipes you have posted since are great! I’m a lover of Danish food and I hope I can try to make some of your recipes so keep ’em coming!
Wow I really love how you present this dish. It looks so beautiful and delicious 🙂
First: beautiful photo. Shrimp are always popular in my house, love it with the lime!
I love shrimp cocktail, I have it quite often and I always try to change it a little bit, you made it quite well it looks delicious
Shrimp and lime plus a bit of hot sauce – now that is a perfect snack. Delish! Glad to be part of the SRC group C with you!!
What a beautiful presentation! Glad to be in Group C with you!
I am glad that you like the shrimp! I think your serving idea is great and something we will try. I think this was one of the first recipes that we had in our gourmet group…many years ago. It is an oldie but a goodie!
Kate, thanks for sharing the recipe with all of us 🙂
Great choice for SRC, this looks so delicious! So glad to be in Group C with you! 🙂
Lovely…with Lent coming, I’m on the lookout for good seafood-based recipes! Great to be in Group C with you!