The Fit Post

This weekend make an easy well balanced meal full of nutrients to fuel you for early morning workouts and late night parties: pasta with asparagus, broccoli and garlic shrimp.  Shrimp in any dish will add low-fat/low-calorie protein, selenium, vitamin D and B12, iron plus omega-3 fatty acids. 

Here’s a rough sketch of the recipe I used (i.e. I watched my boyfriend make for me) but it is in general a very flexible dish that can include as much or as little of each ingredient depending on your preference.

On the side, boil water and cook pasta.  Add oil to a pan and set at medium/low heat.  Once it gets hot, add diced pieces of garlic and let simmer in the oil without letting the garlic turn brown.  Add cut asparagus followed by the shrimp (clean and shell first) 2 minutes later.  Stir around so everything is well mixed – add a shake of basil, oregano, parsley, onion powder and garlic powder.  Continuously mixing, add in red pepper flakes and about 5 dashes of Tabasco (spice it up!) - you should be able to see a significant sprinkle of the red pepper flakes.  Let everything heat for another minute before tossing in cooked pasta (make sure to make it a bit more al dente than you normally would like it) into the pan with the other ingredients and stir well.  Let cook for another minute and serve.

~ by Maggie on October 23, 2009.

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