Wecipe Wednesday - August 11, 2021 - Ceviche!
Welcome back to Wecipe Wednesday. I volunteered to lead a return of this longstanding regular thread at r/loseit at least until the end of March 2021. Since no one has stepped up to take my place yet, I'll keep going until I run out of recipes.
I'll include the ingredients list, nutritional information along with other hints. Some recipes are vegetarian/vegan, others not so much.
Post your favourite healthy recipes here to share with the rest of the loseit community! Recipes don't have to fit this week's theme at all, they should just be something that you can eat reasonably frequently while actively losing weight.
Due to the spirit of the sub, please try to include the calorie and nutritional information if at all possible. MyFitnessPal has awesome recipe calculators you can use!
For the most part, I target my meals to have a component in the 350-550 kcal range. My breakfast and lunch tend to be right around 400 kcal each and dinner can be a bit heavier, or include a side dish to bring the calories up a bit. When I was eating 1650 kcal/day the breakdown was roughly 400/400/600/250 for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks.
Anyhow: enough background on to the recipes!
Ceviche
This week's recipe arises from necessity. Our tomatoes are coming in gangbusters so it's time for Insalata Caprese (Tomato/Basil/Mozzarella). I like mine simple. Salt on the tomato, no added oil, no balsamic, so essentially all the calories are in the mozzarella.
However it was warm and I wanted to add some protein to our meal without having to actually cook anything. The quickest protein we had access to was a bag of Costco frozen scallops.
Enter this "salad" which was a lot more like a ceviche than anything else (bonus points for also being Capri themed):
https://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipe/capri-style-seafood-salad
- 0.5 cup EVOO [960 kcal]
- 12 large sea scallops (about 10 oz.), halved horizontally, then quartered [620 kcal 50g protein] <- small pieces are critical as they are just very briefly cooked.
- 20 large cooked peeled and deveined shrimp (about 10 oz.), chilled [400 kcal, 77g protein]
- 4 lemons—1 halved, 2 juiced (about 1/2 cup) and 1 cut into wedges [60 kcal]
- half a red onion, very thinly sliced [10 kcal]
- 2 ribs celery with leaves, ribs thinly sliced on an angle [10 kcal]
- 1 fresh bay leaf
- 5 whole black peppercorns
- 0.5 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
- 1 small red chile, thinly sliced
- 1 ½ tsp. fresh thyme leaves
- Kosher salt
When portioned in 4 portions:
TOTAL: 2060 kcal. 515 kcal/portion with approximately 32g of protein, but also over 30g of fat.
Clearly this is not a low fat dish with the majority of the calories are coming from the olive oil, but you won't necessarily end up eating it all. (We still had some "juice" left in the bowl when done. You can try to adjust the lemon juice/oil balance some if you want to further reduce the calories per serving.
The celery, thyme and parsley were fresh picked from our yard and the shrimp were picked up with cocktail sauce at the local supermarket.
That said, a single serving is really filling even though it looks quite small.
What about you? What are you eating? Any good ceviche or other hot-weather fish/seafood recipes served cold to share?
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