Low Carb Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp w Avocado-Lime Spinach Salad

Name: Low Carb Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp w Avocado-Lime Spinach Salad
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: keto
Ingredients: Raw Shrimp; Salt; Black pepper; Paleo Baking Flour; Raw egg, yolk; Water; Coconut, dried, shredded or flaked, unsweetened; Almond flour; Mayonnaise; Sauce Sriracha Or Hot Chile; Honey; Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil; Spinach; Salt; Black pepper, ground; Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil; Garlic; Avocado; Lime juice, fresh; Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil; Salt; Scallions

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Low Carb Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp w Avocado-Lime Spinach Salad dish

Prepare Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

This delicious lunch or dinner is great for meal prepping or whenever you’re looking for a lighter-tasting meal. Don’t worry, this dish tastes “light” but has plenty of healthy fat sources for your Keto diet. Jumbo shrimp are rolled in a breading made of low-carb almond flour and real coconut flakes. Then, they’re fried in your air fryer, keeping your cooking time under 15 minutes. The coconut shrimp are tossed or dipped in a spicy honey sauce made with mayonnaise and Sriracha. Served on the side is a wilted spinach salad. Fresh spinach or your favorite type of dark leafy green is wilted with hot garlic oil. Then, it’s dressed in a super-fresh avocado-lime dressing. You can also use your spicy honey sauce on your spinach salad. ### Storing Your Meal If you’re storing leftovers or meal prepping, follow these couple of tips. If you’re just storing leftovers, keep the shrimp and salad separate if you want to re-heat the shrimp. However, the shrimp also taste good cold! For meal prepping, you will also store the shrimp and salad separately from each other, and you will also need to keep the avocado dressing in its own separate container. You can warm up your spinach salad if you desire, or just add the dressing to it cold when you’re ready to eat. ### I Don’t Own Paleo Flour Paleo flour blends are great for dusting foods you want to fry in an air fryer or in oil. The super-fine consistency is as close as you can get to typical wheat flour. If you can’t find this style of flour at your grocery store, you can substitute it with additional almond flour. It’s recommended you use the finest ground almond flour you can find, and you may feel inclined to grind the almond flour down more in a food processor before you use it. This will help your shrimp cook up light and crispy without the breading lumping together or falling off. Jessica L.

How to make Low Carb Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp w Avocado-Lime Spinach Salad

Prepare the shrimp by peeling and deveining them. Use a paper towel to pat the shrimp dry and add them to a mixing bowl. Toss the raw shrimp with salt, pepper, and paleo flour until the shrimp has a lightly seasoned coating all over. Set the shrimp aside. Additionally, in a small bowl, whisk together the egg yolk and water. Set this bowl next to your shrimp.
In a food processor or blender, pulse whole coconut flakes and almond flour together until you have finely ground coconut-almond flour. Spread the coconut almond flour out on a clean plate to bread the shrimp. Now, turn your air fryer on the preheat to 350 degrees. One by one, dip a shrimp in the egg yolk, let the excess egg drip off, then roll the shrimp in the coconut almond flour until fully coated in breading. Arrange all the breaded shrimp on your air fryer tray.
Cook the shrimp in your air fryer for 12-14 minutes. The shrimp will cook quickly, but look for a beautiful golden brown and crispy breading with slightly darker edges where the coconut fried to know they’re done. While your shrimp is in the air fryer, quickly whisk together the spicy honey sauce with the mayonnaise, Sriracha (or equivalent chili sauce), honey, and olive oil. Let the shrimp cool for a few minutes before you either dip them in sauce or toss them in the spicy honey sauce at your discretion.
While the shrimp is in the air fryer, you can also prepare the avocado-lime salad, which just takes minutes. Chop raw spinach into a size preferable to you, and add it to a mixing bowl. Sprinkle dashes of salt and pepper over the spinach, and set the bowl aside. In a small pan or pot, combine the next amount of olive oil and minced garlic. Heat the garlic oil over low heat until the garlic turns golden and becomes fragrant. Pour the hot garlic oil over the spinach, letting it wilt the greens. Toss the salad together and set it aside once more.
In a food processor or powerful blender, combine avocado, lime juice, olive oil, salt, and chopped green onion. Blend until you have a creamy avocado dressing. You may need to scrape down your appliance and blend the dressing multiple times until it reaches the right consistency. Toss the salad with the dressing to finish the recipe. You can either enjoy the coconut shrimp and salad as a main course and side dish, or you can place the shrimp and spicy sauce right on top to enjoy a yummy salad.

Ingredients of Low Carb Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp w Avocado-Lime Spinach Salad

Ingredient	Quantity
1. Raw Shrimp	undefined
2. Salt	undefined
3. Black pepper	undefined
4. Paleo Baking Flour	undefined
5. Raw egg, yolk	undefined
6. Water	undefined
7. Coconut, dried, shredded or flaked, unsweetened	undefined
8. Almond flour	undefined
9. Mayonnaise	undefined
10. Sauce Sriracha Or Hot Chile	undefined
11. Honey	undefined
12. Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil	undefined
13. Spinach	undefined
14. Salt	undefined
15. Black pepper, ground	undefined
16. Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil	undefined
17. Garlic	undefined
18. Avocado	undefined
19. Lime juice, fresh	undefined
20. Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil	undefined
21. Salt	undefined
22. Scallions	undefined

Low Carb Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp w Avocado-Lime Spinach Salad nutrients

caloriesKCal: 568.519 caloriesKJ: 2378.683 totalCarbs: 12.346 diabetesCarbsADA: 12.346 netCarbs: 6.407 diabetesCarbs: 6.433 fiber: 5.885 starch: 0.902 sugar: 3.263 addedSugar: 0.733 sugarAlcohols: 0.054 protein: 8.949 fat: 55.985 transFat: 0.006 monousatFat: 33.778 polyunsatFat: 6.877 omega3Fat: 0.249 omega6Fat: 2.659 saturatedFat: 12.884 cholesterol: 117.477 vitaminA: 361.862 vitaminC: 22.446 vitaminD: 0.467 vitaminE: 9.609 vitaminK: 308.009 vitaminB1: 0.116 vitaminB2: 0.286 vitaminB3: 1.743 vitaminB5: 0.834 vitaminB6: 0.36 vitaminB12: 0.398 potassium: 638.962 magnesium: 87.939 calcium: 110.749 iron: 2.96 zinc: 1.359 copper: 0.333 phosphorus: 189.013 sodium: 631.075 selenium: 14.142 folate: 157.817 choline: 90.522 alcohol: 0 caffeine: 0 gluten: 0 manganese: 1.029 conjugatedLinoleicAcid: 0.002 phyticAcid: 238.163 xylitol: 0.005 isomalt: 0 sorbitol: 0 maltitol: 0 lactitol: 0 erythritol: 0 pinitol: 0.002 inositol: 0.046 mannitol: 0.001