Prawn aguachile salad
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
+ marinating
Check out our quick and easy prawn aguachile salad recipe. Aguachile’ means ‘chilli water’ in Spanish, referring to the fiery dressing. Traditionally, raw prawns would be used but we’ve used cooked here to cut down on time
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- 2 green chilliesdeseeded and roughly chopped
- a small bunch corianderstalks roughly chopped and leaves torn
- 2 limeszested and juiced
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 180g ready-cooked prawns
- 1 red onionthinly sliced
- 1 avocadodiced
- a handful radishesquartered
- ¼ cucumberdiced
- 2 Little Gem lettucescut into chunky pieces
- a handful, crushed tortilla chipsto serve
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal228low
- fat13.4g
- saturates2.4g
- carbs13.4g
- sugars5.2g
- fibre5.2g
- protein10.8g
- salt1.1g
Method
step 1
Put the green chillies, coriander stalks, lime zest and juice, the sugar, a pinch of salt and 50ml of water into a small blender and whizz until smooth. Put the prawns and red onion into a large bowl, pour over the dressing and leave to marinate for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
step 2
Add in the avocado, radishes, cucumber, lettuce and coriander leaves, and toss again. Divide between 4 plates then sprinkle over a few crushed tortilla chips.
