Nowadays, most of the people have become much more concerned about the food they consume. You may like the tasty foods, but you need be careful about the amount of calories you are consuming through these foods daily. You don’t want to have more calories than your body needs because in some cases consumption of extra calorie may result in serious health issues. So you really should maintain your food diet to maintain the amount of calories you consume, and it will help you to maintain good health.
What kind of things you should avoid?
1) Recent studies show that an average person, who lives in U.S.A consume about 3500 milligrams of sodium, whereas the limit of sodium consumption should be around 1500 milligrams, and the less amount of sodium you consume, the less amount of heart risk you have because high consumption of sodium really can cause cardiac problems.
2) You should avoid foods which contain high cholesterol because foods with high cholesterol also can be harmful to your heart.
3) You also should avoid food with high fat.
So, what can be an ideal snack?
As you know, snacks are very popular preparations. There can be many preparations of snacks, but as we have discussed earlier, we really should avoid those snacks which contain high sodium, cholesterol, and fat just because it can be unhealthy for you and it can affect your health in the future as well. So we need to look for those kinds of snacks which can be healthy for us and which can also provide some good taste. An ideal snack should complement our daily life diet and also should fulfill our daily necessity of calories. Here are a few properties that an Ideal snack should have.
1) It should be healthy.
2) It should complement our daily life food.
3) It should contain less amount of junk.
4) It should contain a balanced amount of vitamins, protein, and minerals.
5) It should be refreshing.
So, we all need an ideal snack after a long working day for refreshing our mind. And an ideal snack can be like citrus shrimp.
What is citrus shrimp?
Citrus shrimp is a Spanish inspired snack. It is quite simple, light and healthy and it is made up of oranges, garlic, and limes.
Key ingredients of citrus shrimp
Though citrus shrimp is quite a simple snack, it still needs some key ingredients, these ingredients are:
1) 2 or 3 oranges and it should be juiced.
2) 3 or 4 limes and it should be juiced.
3) You need 2-3 spoons of olive oil.
4) ½ teaspoon of salt for taste, you can add less salt if you have high blood pressure.
5) ¼ teaspoon of red pepper can be added as well.
6) 3 cloves garlic.
As you can understand that most of these key ingredients are quite healthy and do not contain harmful or junk content, so it is quite good and healthy snack to have.
Procedure of making citrus shrimp
1) First of all, you need a blender or food processor where you have to mix the ingredients like orange juice, lime juice, olive oil, salt and garlic and try to make sure that the shrink is smooth and not stuck up. Cause a stuck up shrink can cause problems.
2) Now you need to keep the shrimp in a cleaned up bowl, and then you have to marinate it with the citrus for 25 minutes and make sure that you do it at room temperature.
3) Now you need a not sticky pan with medium heat, and you have to fry that shrimp both sides in that medium heated pan. You should continue this process until the color becomes opaque and after that, you can also add some extra ingredients to have a different flavor.
4) The overall process should not take more than 50 minutes to 1 hour. The mixing up process should take about 45-50 minutes, and the cooking process should not take more than 5-10 minutes.
So, as you can see this snack recipe is made up of quite healthy ingredients, and it can be a good food you can take besides your daily normal life food to change the taste and refresh your mind.
