The Food You Crave

One of my favorite cookbooks! Not only because I am eating healthy, but because the recipes are very good. All the nutritional info is listed for each recipe, so you know exactly what you're getting calorie and nutrient wise. You can buy it at your local bookstore or at Amazon.

The Food You Crave by Ellie Krieger

One recipe in particular that I really love out of this cookbook is the Baked Shrimp with Tomatoes and Feta. There are many different variations of this recipe out there, but this one uses dill. I love dill, so I doubled it in this recipe and I love the fresh flavor it brings!

Baked Shrimp with Tomatoes and Feta
by Ellie Krieger

Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium onion, diced (about 1 1/2 cups)
2 cloves garlic, minced (about 2 teaspoons)
2 (14.5-ounce) cans of no-salt-added diced tomatoes, with their juices
1/4 cup finely minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 tablespoon finely minced fresh dill
1 1/4 pounds medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2/3 cup crumbled feta cheese (about 3 ounces)

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

Heat the oil in an oven proof skillet over a medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes, then add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and let simmer for about 5 minutes, until the tomato juices thicken.

Remove from the heat. Stir in the parsley, dill, and shrimp and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle the feta over the top. Bake until the shrimp are cooked through and cheese melts, about 12 minutes.

***note*** I couldn't find fresh dill that day so I used about 2 inches of dill from one of those tubes that you find near the spices in the refrigerator section. I would not recommend this over fresh herbs, but I was desperate! (the recipe still turned out fantastic)

Nutrition Facts:

Serving size: 1 1/2 cups
Calories 300
Total fat 11g
Saturated fat 4.5g
Monounsaturated fat 4g
Polyunsaturated fat 1.5g
Protein 35g
Carbohydrates 12g
Fiber 2g
Cholesterol 240mg
Sodium 710mg

Not too shabby calorie wise. You get 1.5 cups of this...and that's a great serving size! Serve it with a green vegetable and you are good to go. If you are being extra naughty, you could toast up a thick piece of whole grain bread, veeeery lightly buttered with yogurt butter and then rubbed with a garlic clove (when hot). Serve it along side to sop up the juices of this scrumptious recipe. That would probably add about 150-200 calories, so paired with the shrimp and green veggie, this is a 500 calorie meal.

BON APPETIT!