Jalapeno Lime Shrimp

It's lent, which means no meat on Fridays for our family. We usually stick with cheese pizza or pasta, but my husband has been craving shrimp. He went to a seafood restaurant a few weeks ago and had the "best" shrimp ever. I am not a big seafood fan, but I thought it would be a fun date night to cook with my husband!

Here are the ingredients you will need:

You may have noticed a theme with most of my recipes...garlic, salt and lime.  The issue is that my husband is Cuban.  Thus, almost everything requires garlic, salt, and/or lime.  Considering how much salt his family eats, it is a mystery of medical science how any of them made it past 50.  Yet both his grandparents are in their 80's and going strong.

Back to the subject at hand, we put the shrimp in a flat bottomed glass bowl so all the shrimp was covered by our marinade. Then we sprinkled the shrimp with our spices, garlic salt, sea salt, and pepper.

Salt and Garlic...a taste of Cuba.

Then we poured in enough jalapeno lime sauce to cover the shrimp. My husband is a great help in the kitchen! We should do this more often.

He pours like the wind!

Next we put in our lime juice. Had we had fresh limes I would have squeezed in the juice of two fresh limes. Let the shrimp marinate for at least 30 minutes before you saute them.

Now it is time to saute them in the pan, we put in a little olive oil and threw in our shrimp with all the marinade juices. Keep an eye them and turn often.

Once they are cooked, serve over a bed of rice or you can mix in with a pasta dish.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1teaspoon garlic salt

1 lb shrimp

2 tablespoons lime juice

1 cup Louisiana jalapeno lime sauce 

1 tablespoon olive oil

Summary: Sprinkle shrimp with spices. Cover with jalapeno lime sauce, and lime juice. Let marinade for 30 minutes. Cook on medium high turning often.

With love