📂 Fish & Seafood
#Seafood
#Low Carb
#High Protein
#Quick Dinner
Grilled Prawn and Pineapple Skewers
🍍 Sweet and savory contrast in an express dinner. Marinated prawns and diced fresh pineapple grilled to perfection. Pure tropical flavor in 15 minutes.
🛒 Ingredients
- 14 oz Raw prawns
- 7 oz Fresh pineapple
- Juice of half a lime
- Fresh cilantro
- Soy sauce
- EVOO
🍍 Tropical Skewers: The Sea and the Jungle on Your Table
Combining seafood with tropical fruits is an infallible technique to elevate a quick dinner to the category of a feast. Pineapple, when grilled, caramelizes its natural sugars and intensifies its sweet flavor, contrasting perfectly with the salinity of the prawn. Moreover, visually it is a colorful, cheerful, and very festive dish.
🦐 Why it is exceptionally healthy
- Bromelain Enzyme: Fresh pineapple is famous for containing bromelain, a powerful digestive enzyme that helps the stomach break down and assimilate the proteins from the prawns with great ease.
- Iodine and Selenium: Prawns are a wonderful source of these two microminerals, essential for the proper functioning of the thyroid gland and basal metabolism.
- Extremely Low Calorie: The almost total absence of fats and simple carbohydrates makes these skewers the ideal dish for a muscle definition dinner.
📝 Step-by-Step Preparation
- Seafood Cleaning: Peel 14 oz (400g) of good-sized raw prawns (about 16-20). With a small knife, make a slight cut along the back and remove the black vein (the intestine) for a cleaner and less bitter result.
- Fruit Cutting: Peel 1/4 of a fresh pineapple (about 7 oz / 200g cleaned). It is vital that it is fresh and not canned, as the canned one contains syrups and its texture does not hold up well on the grill. Cut it into cubes of the same thickness as the prawns.
- Express Marination: In a bowl, put the prawns and pineapple. Add the juice of half a lime, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, and finely chopped fresh cilantro. Let rest for only 10 minutes (if left longer, the lime acid will cold-cook the prawn).
- Skewering: Use wooden skewers (previously soaked so they don't burn). Thread by alternating a prawn, a pineapple cube, another prawn... until the skewers are full.
- The Grill (High Heat): Heat a griddle or large skillet over very high heat. Grease lightly with a brush and a few drops of EVOO.
- Quick Cooking: Cook the skewers for 1 and a half minutes per side. The prawns should turn pink and opaque, and the pineapple should have a slight char on the edges. Serve immediately with an extra lime wedge.
