Mint & Ginger Prawns with Coleslaw

Mint and Ginger Prawns with Coleslaw Recipe

Prawns are a delicious summertime food loaded with lots of protein to fill you up. In fact, did you know they have approximately the same amount of protein as chicken or beef, yet half the calories?

Serves: 2

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Mint and Ginger Prawns with Coleslaw Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

Did you know that prawns have approximately the same amount of protein as chicken or beef, yet half the calories?


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Ingredients

  • Dressing
  • 1 tsp finely grated lime zest
  • 1 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • 2 tsp tamari
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped mint

  • 1 small carrot, grated
  • ¼ small green cabbage, finely shredded
  • ¼ small red cabbage, finely shredded
  • 2 kale leaves, stalks removed, roughly chopped or torn
  • 1 spring onion, thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 10 medium peeled & deveined green prawns, tails left intact
  • Mint leaves, to serve

Method


  • Combine all dressing ingredients in small jar, seal and shake well.
  • Combine carrot, cabbages, kale and spring onion in serving bowl.
  • Heat oil in medium frying pan over medium heat. Add prawns and cook for 1–2 mins on each side, until cooked through.
  • Put prawns on top of vegetables, pour over dressing and serve topped with mint leaves.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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