Garlic Shrimp Salad
Enjoy this delicious shrimp salad as part of your healthy life styles way of eating. It makes a great light meal on its own, or you can serve it as a side salad to a larger meal. Rich in health-promoting nutrients you will receive 60% of the Daily Value (DV) for vitamin C, 56% DV for protein, 53% DV for vitamin K, and 44% DV for folate and much more. Enjoy! Bon Appetit! Buen Provecho!

Prep and Cook Time: 25 minutes
Serves 4

Ingredients:
•3 TBS vegetable broth
•4 medium cloves garlic, pressed
•small head of romaine lettuce, chopped
•1 fresh tomato, diced into 1/2-inch pieces
•salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste
•1 lb medium-sized cooked shrimp, best bought still frozen
•1 bunch asparagus, cut into 1-inch pieces, discarding bottom fourth
•3 TBS chopped fresh parsley (or 3 tsp dried parsley if fresh not available)

Dressing
•1 tsp honey
•1 TBS Dijon mustard
•3 TBS fresh lemon juice
•2 TBS extra virgin olive oil
•salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste

Directions:
Press or thinly slice garlic. Make sure shrimp is completely thawed and patted dry with a paper towel, or it will dilute the flavor of the salad. Add broth to medium skillet and after it has heated up, add asparagus and sauté for 5 minutes.
Whisk together lemon, oil, mustard, honey, garlic, salt and pepper. Toss shrimp, asparagus, parsley, and tomato with dressing and herbs. Allow shrimp salad to marinate for at least 15 minutes. Discard outer leaves of lettuce head, rinse, dry, and chop. Serve shrimp mixture on bed of lettuce. Enjoy! Bon Appetit! Buen Provecho!

Healthy Cooking Tips:
Buying shrimp that is still frozen will ensure that it will be as fresh as possible. Because all shrimp comes frozen in stores once they have thawed they lose their freshness very quickly. This recipe was created to be very quick and easy, so we added already cooked shrimp to the ingredient list. If you have the time, obviously it would have better flavor if the shrimp was raw and you cooked it yourself. It is very important either way to make sure the shrimp is patted dry. Otherwise it will dilute the flavor of your salad. Also, if you plan ahead, this salad will taste even better if it marinates for a couple of hours. It's easiest to cut the bunch of asparagus at the same time. Just line up ends, cut off the bottom fourth (which is fibrous) and cut rest into 1-inch pieces.