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Recipe: Prawn and peach tacos

October 2, 2014 by Shari

I feel that sometimes people think Mexican equals beef mince and Old El Paso… Now I have nothing against beef mince or Old El Paso, but people Mexican is so much more then that and it can be super fresh and healthy. Like this recipe for my prawn and peach tacos – YUMMO!

I whipped up these prawn and peach tacos the other night in about 20 minutes. I purchased some pre-pealed and deveined prawns (because what Mummy has time for pealing and deveining prawns?) and gave them a quick Mexican feel with coriander root/stem, cumin, garlic, paprika and lime zest.
That’s another thing – just because this is Mexican doesn’t mean that it has to be full of chilli and blow your socks off. I like to create some simple fresh creations that Mr Moo can enjoy too – although in saying that he does eat chilli and jalapenos. 
I thought outside the box in creating my salsa too and decided to grill some yellow peaches to include (because they just looked so nice at the market). And I made some yellow rice (basically rice boiled with turmeric) because it soaks up the delicious juices from the prawns and the salsa.

PRAWN AND PEACH TACOS
500 grams of prawns
1 bunch of coriander
3 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of paprika
1 teaspoon of cumin 
1 lime
1 cup of jasmine rice
1 tablespoon of turmeric
2 tomatoes
2 cobs of corn
2 peaches
1 red onion
taco shells
salt and pepper
olive oil

Bring two saucepans to the boil. Add your corn cobs to one and your rice and turmeric to the other.

Place the prawns, chopped coriander roots and stems, crushed garlic, paprika, cumin, the zest of the lime and a splash of olive oil in a bowl. Toss and allow to marinate for 5 minutes.

Slice your peaches in half and place on a dry grill plate until slightly charred on each slide. Allow to cool slightly before slicing into chunks and assembling your salsa with similar sized chunks of tomato, thinly sliced red onion, the leaves of the coriander and the lime juice. Drizzle with a little olive oil, season with salt and pepper and then set aside.

Toss your prawns in a hot frying pan until cooked.

Drain your corn cobs and rice. Slice the corn off the cobs and add to your salsa.

To assemble your taco – fill the shell first with rice followed by prawns and topped off with the peach salsa.

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Filed Under: Dinner, recipe Tagged With: coriander, corn, cumin, fresh produce, Garlic, Lime, Mexican, Paprika, peach, prawn, taco

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  1. Vicki @ BoiledEggsandSoldiers says

    September 29, 2015 at 9:32 pm

    Wow what an unusual combination that sounds delicious. Thanks so much for linking into YWF x

  2. [email protected] says

    September 29, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    Prawn and peaches – what a fab combination and I love the alliteration too! These tacos look the business, Mexican is one of my food favourites! Thanks for linking up with Your Weekly Feed x

    • Shari from GoodFoodWeek says

      September 29, 2015 at 3:00 pm

      It’s a great flavour combo Sammie! Thanks for being the guest host this week – I love all the recipes that you share on ‘Your Weekly Feed’.

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