Saturday, May 19, 2012

Wanton Cup Shrimp Tacos 
~ 15 minutes
Makes 4 cups

Ingredients:
8 wanton wrappers
4 cooked shrimp
1/2 avocado
1 clove of garlic
1 tablespoon paprika
a pinch of chili powder
a pinch of coriander
1 lime
1 roma tomato
1/8 cup of diced red onion
15 pieces cilantro
pinch of salt and pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 leaf of lettuce or cabbage (by choice)


1.) Preheat the oven to 350 F. Thaw cooked shrimp slowly in cool water if bought frozen and remove tails.
2.) Lightly coat each wanton square with olive oil. Place one sheet into a cupcake pan and press down to make the bottom flat, place a second sheet on top of the first in an opposite orientation to get as much coverage as possible. Repeat with the remaining 6 sheets to get 4 cups total.
3.) Combine finely chopped garlic, paprika, chili powder, coriander, salt, and pepper and coat each shrimp with mixture. Place 1 shrimp into each cup and sprinkle with 1/2 of the chopped cilantro and squeeze a small amount of lime juice onto each shrimp. Bake in the oven for 7 minutes.
4.) While wontons are baking, chop the roma tomato and red onion and mix with a pinch of salt, remaining cilantro, and some lime juice. This will be a pico de galo you can serve on top or on the side. (Great for chips too!) Dice the avocado into chunks. Chop lettuce or cabbage into strips.
5.) Once wantons are ready, remove from cupcake pan and put in lettuce, avoado, and pico de gallo.
6.) Serve immediately!






If you have a mini-cupcake pan, you can use only one sheet per cup and half of the filling per cup. With the same amount of ingredients would come out with 8 really mini tacos. Substituting fish like tilapia is also a good alternative. Thanks to Very Culinary for the idea of the wanton cups!

1 comment:

  1. Yum! These look amazing! Probs come back and make them for us at a dinner!

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