Tex Mex
Shrimp Fajitas
Shrimp Fajitas is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb large shrimp, peeled
- 3 bell peppers
- 2 large onions
- 8 large flour tortillas
- 2 limes
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 3 garlic cloves
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Toss the shrimp with the chili powder, cumin, minced garlic, the juice of one lime, and salt.
- Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a skillet over high heat and cook the sliced peppers and onions until charred and tender, about 8 minutes, then remove.
- Add the remaining oil and cook the shrimp until pink and just opaque, about 2 minutes per side.
- Return the peppers and onions to the pan and toss with the shrimp for 1 minute.
- Warm the flour tortillas until soft and pliable.
- Serve the shrimp and peppers with the tortillas and remaining lime wedges.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Shrimp Fajitas carries gluten and shellfish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Beef Enchiladas |
| Shellfish | Yes | Bacon and Egg Breakfast Quesadilla |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Shrimp Fajitas takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on shrimp, bell pepper, and tortilla.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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