Minty Cardamom Shrimp Salad

Indian cooks cognize that toasting full spices, past grinding them, tin beryllium accomplished adjacent for a speedy weeknight dish. The payoff is fuller flavor, maximizing those just-released oils: successful this case, from the cardamom, coriander and cumin seeds arsenic good arsenic the dried reddish chilies.

The look calls for tail-on shrimp for a fewer reasons: They clasp their signifier amended and clasp the shellfish's finger-food accessibility. But if you find the tails a bother, discard them conscionable aft the shrimp person been cooked. In fact, for a greater shrimp-per-forkful ratio, chopped immoderate oregon each of the just-cooked shrimp successful fractional horizontally earlier you adhd them to the salad. The prep clip volition beryllium reduced if you usage already peeled/deveined shrimp.

Serve with slices of caller mango and tomato, and crusty breadstuff oregon lukewarm nan.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  180

• Fat

  7 g

• Saturated Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  5 g

• Sodium

  650 mg

• Cholesterol

  130 mg

• Protein

  22 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Indian Cooking Unfolded: A Master Class successful Indian Cooking, With 100 Recipes Using 10 Ingredients oregon Less," by Raghavan Iyer (Workman, 2013).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.