Shrimp and Crab Mixed Garden Main Dish Salad

Enough of all that diet stuff. How about some food?!

Okay, well yes, it IS a salad, but it sure was a good salad for somebody who hasn't eaten a salad in awhile. I love doing different kinds of salads for lunch, so I'll be posting some of them to share with ya'll.

Nice and light (especially coming off all the holiday goodies), fresh and just delicious.

Shrimp and Crab Mixed Garden

Main Dish Salad

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1 teaspoon of unsalted butter

3 ounces of shrimp, peeled and deveined

Old Bay Seasoning, to taste
Slap Ya Mama Cajun Seasoning,to taste
1 ounce of lump crab meat
About 3 cups of assorted mixed lettuces (romaine, red & green leaf, mixed baby greens)
3 inch strip of celery, chopped
1/4 of a cucumber, chopped
1 large radish, sliced
1/4 of a tomato, chopped
1/4 of a green onion, sliced
1 tablespoon of Sunkist Almond Accents
2 tablespoons of Kraft olive oil raspberry vinaigrette, or your choice of dressing

In a skillet over medium heat melt the butter. Add the shrimp, sprinkle with Old Bay and Cajun seasonings and cook just until shrimp turns an opaque pink color. Don't overcook! Remove from the hot pan and set aside.

Wash and spin dry the lettuces. I used green leaf, red leaf and a spring mix of romaine, tango and radicchio in the photo above. Spread the lettuces on a dinner plate and scatter the celery, cucumber, radish and tomato on top. Sprinkle shrimp all around on top and pile the crab into the very center of the salad. Scatter with green onion and almonds, and drizzle all over with the vinaigrette.

Serve with a slice of whole grain bread drizzled with some flaxseed oil or a few multi-grain crackers.

5 Weight Watchers Points for the salad

Add 2 points for the Kraft olive oil vinaigrette

Add another 2 points for 5 Premium brand saltine crackers w/multigrain

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