Shrimp Tacos with Cilantro Cream
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These tacos are great for easy no fuss summer entertaining.
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Recipe type: Entree
Serves: 12 Tacos
Ingredients
- For the Shrimp
- 2 pounds shrimp, deveined and shelled
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes (more to taste)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- A grill basket or 24 bamboo or metal skews
- Olive Oil
- For the Cilantro Cream:
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 Tablespoons cilantro, minced
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 Tablespoons lime juice
- For the Slaw:
- 1½ cups green cabbage, shredded
- 1½ cups red cabbage, shredded
- 1 Tablespoon jalapeno, minced
- 24 corn or flour tortillas depending on your preference
- Garnish: Cilantro and lime wedges
Directions
- In a large bowl, combine the shrimp, paprika, garlic powder, oregano, cumin, red pepper flakes and salt. Let sit.
- If using bamboo skewers, soak skews for 30 minutes before grilling. Poke wooden or metal skews through the top and bottom of shrimp. Add 3 shrimp per skew. Repeat until all shrimp are used.
- Right before grilling, brush the shrimp with olive oil.
- Grill shrimp over high heat for 3 minutes, brush top with additional olive oil and flip, let grill for another 3 minutes.
- In a bowl, combine the sour cream, lime zest, salt and lime juice and refrigerate until ready to serve the tacos.
- In a large bowl, combine the green cabbage, red cabbage, jalapeno and pour ½ the creamy cilantro sauce over the mixture. Stir to combine. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Reserve the other ½ of the cilantro sauce to serve with the tacos.
- To assemble a taco, put the cabbage slaw in the tortilla, add shrimp, top with cilantro sauce, cilantro and a squeeze of lime.
Notes
I use frozen wild shrimp 21-25 count per pound.
You can skew the shrimp to grill them or put them in a grill basket which to me is much easier.
To save more time, purchase a pre-shredded bag of cabbage.
You can skew the shrimp to grill them or put them in a grill basket which to me is much easier.
To save more time, purchase a pre-shredded bag of cabbage.
