(Orange-flavoured prawns - Our recipe)
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Orange-flavored prawns
Orange-flavored prawns is a prawn salad very tasty and easy to do. It's a very low-fat and low-calorie recipe, suitable if you are on diet but it's so tasty you can serve it in a special occasion too. You'll need few ingredients: raw prawns, oranges, orange-flavor liqueur, balsamic vinegar. It's a winter recipe.
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yeld for 2
- 300g (10 1/2 ounce) raw prawns (shrimp)
- 2 orange juice
- 1 orange
- 1 tablespoon orange-flavored liqueur (Italian arancino)
- 1tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- Salt
- Time:
preparation: 20 minutes plus cooling time
cooking: few minutes
total: 30 minutes - Difficulty:
easy recipe - Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 103 (kCal) 6 % GDA (*) - 429 (kJ)
Protein: 16.2 (g) 33 % GDA
Total fat: 0.3 (g) 1 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 8.9 (g) 4 % GDA
Sugars: 8.8 (g) 10 % GDA
Orange-flavored prawn recipe
Preparation
- - Remove the shells from the prawns.
- - Squeeze two oranges and pour the juice into a little pan.
- - Add the liqueur, balsamic vinegar and a pinch of salt too.
Cooking
- - Bring to the boil the mixture and add the prawns.
- - Boil one minute since the liquid starts to boil again.
Switch off the gas and let the prawns in the cooking juice for another minute. - - Remove the prawns with a skimming ladle and let them drain.
Just before serving
- - Meanwhile clean the third orange and divide it into its segments.
Peel the segments too.
Place them in a plate. - - Add the prawns too.
- - Your dish is ready!
Tips and menu planning
- - Fresh prawns is the way to go but if you choose frozen prawns you have to thaw them before starting the recipe. The preparation time is longer, obviously.
If you buy whole prawns with their head the right dose is 400 to 450g (14 onces to 1 pound). - - If you prepare orange-flavored prawns following our directions you have to serve them as soon as possible. If you want to prepare them ahead you have to dress them with a tablespoon olive oil.
- - Eat every prawn accompanied with an orange piece to enjoy this recipe!
- - It's a perfect main dish for your daily menu or a finger food for an Italian aperitivo to plan at home or a course in a buffet menu.
Planning an Italian-style get-together in winter? Serve this prawn dish as starter or after the first course (pasta or rice dish) and before the second course based, generally, on meat or fish.
The orange-flavor prawns are perfect in a formal occasion: your guests wll have no problem with forks and knives! - - This recipes serves 2 but the doses are enough for more people if you prepare a buffet or serve them in a complete menu.
Healthy eating
- - Daily menu. Do you see the nutrition facts of orange-flavored prawns? don't believe what you're reading?
But it's true! It's a very low-fat and low-calorie dish. It is a good choice if you are on a diet or, simply, want to eat healthy. Besides it is a clever choice because the diet must never be depressing with tasteless food. One of the pleasures of life is good food. What about it?
The only problem of this recipe is its high cholesterol content. In fact the prawns don't have high total fat but high cholesterol. 150mg per 100g edible portion. 255mg is the daily requirement. Then a calculation of the total amount of cholesterol in the recipe leads to the value of 162mg which is not excessive provided that you're within our recommended dose of shrimp (150g per head with shell and 100g if shelled).
It's better you eat this shrimp dish rarely if you have to control your cholesterol.
According to the nutritionists we should eat protein at dinner. The recommended calories for dinner are 500 - 600 for a person with an energy requirement of 2000 kCal per day to be divided into five daily micro meals.
Choose pasta with vegetable or meat sauce followed by vegetables and fruit for lunch to have an healthy daily menu.
- - Celebration menu. Don't worry in this case. A special occasion happens rarely, doesn't it? And in this case fat and calories are very low ...
- - If you want to drink a glass of wine remember you have to add 80 to 85 calories per 100ml.
- - I remember you our original home recipes can be made without salt. There is always a combination of flavors that substitutes salt. Other no salt recipes ...
By Loretta
What's the right wine ?
Our suggestion is: Prosecco di Conegliano-Valdobbiadene Spumante (sparkling wine of Veneto).
The author Loretta Sebastiani lives in Italy (IT)
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