Coconut Flax Shrimp with Ginger Date Sauce
Coconut Flax Shrimp with Ginger Date Sauce
These coconut flax shrimps cook quickly in the air fryer and requires only a few ingredients to bring out their flavors. This is a meal that will honor your health & your tastebuds so be sure to add it to your growing meal plan.
Equipment
- Chefman Air Fryer
- Vitamix
Ingredients
Coconut Flax Shrimp
- 1 lb uncooked shrimp peeled and deveined
- 1/4 tsp Himalayan salt to taste
- 1/4 tsp fresh black pepper to taste
- egg white from 3-4 eggs would suffice
- 1/2 cup all-purposed flour
- 1 tbsp roasted milled flaxseed from CanMarFoods.com
- 1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 2 tbsp unsweetened coconut flakes Bob's Red Mill
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Ginger Date Sauce
- 1 cup dates pitted
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger
- scotch bonnet to taste
- 1/4 tsp ketchup
- water
Instructions
Coconut Flax Shrimp
- clean, peel, and devein shrimp (clean with lemon juice & water)
- add flour to one dish; egg whites to another dish; and shredded coconut, and coconut flakes to another dish
- in the egg white dish add salt and black pepper and combine using a whisk
- lightly oil Air Fryer tray
- dip peeled, deveined shrimp in each dish and lay on Air Fryer tray
- sprinkle roasted milled flaxseed over shrimps
- Air Fry on 375 F for 5 mins on one side, then flip shrimps over and cook for another 3 mins
- remove and enjoy with sauce!
Ginger date sauce
- soak dates in enough water to cover the dates
- reserve water from soaked dates
- add dates and 1/2 cup of the reserved water from the soaked dates to Vitamix and pulse several times until the dates form into a paste (add 1 tbsp of water at a time as needed)
- dice ginger finely and add to the date paste in Vitamix and pulse continuously
- pour date paste and 1 tbsp of the reserved water into a skillet and cook on low heat
- add ketchup, scotch bonnet and stir continuously so that the sauce does not stick to the skillet
- remove from heat and serve with Coconut Flax Shrimp
Anthony & Sabrina
We are life partners who turned business partners after having our first child. We started off together living a wellness-centered lifestyle that quickly changed with the addition of a newborn. We know what it is like to put nourishing our bodies, staying active, and other self-care activities at the bottom of our to-do lists. Especially during transitions like starting or growing a family, building a career, or business. Over the years we have seen how what we repeatedly are doing (creating healthier habits and routines) serves the vision of the person we want to be and the lives we desire to live.
