20-Minute Deliciousness

I fully planned on eating dinner at a friend's house tonight, but ended up having to get some work done, so I headed home instead...and I hadn't planned dinner. I'm a couple days overdue for a grocery adventure, so I put my thinking cap on, and cooked up this yummy meal in about 20 minutes with some random things in my kitchen! Sometimes you just gotta get creative!

Curry-roasted shrimp, with roasted peach, chayote and basil medley, baked tomato and a peach-basil yogurt dip.

INGREDIENTS

Raw shrimp (if you can get them already deveined, great!)

Peaches (you can get them canned, I won't judge you...but drain the juice out of the can)

Basil leaves

Tomato

1/2 cup Greek Yogurt

Chayote (Mexican squash)...you can use regular summer squash, too...I just think chayote is fantastic!

1 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 tbsp curry powder

1 tsp crushed red pepper

1/2 tsp sea salt (or regular salt will be fine)

1/2 tsp ground pepper (I like mine freshly grounded, but you can use the pepper shaker, if you like)

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Slice the peach (or use 1/2 canned peach slices -- drain the juice out of the can) and spread the slices on the baking sheet. Sprinkle peaches with 1/4 tsp salt. On the same baking sheet, roast 1/2 tomato and quartered slices of squash (or chayote). Roast peaches, tomato and squash for 14 minutes.
2. In separate bowl, mix shrimp with olive oil, curry powder and the remaining 1/4 tsp of salt. As soon as the peaches, chayote and tomato come out of the oven, set them aside and put the shrimp on the baking sheet, and roast for no longer than 5 minutes.
3. Peach-basil yogurt: put remaining peach slices in blender or food processor with crushed red pepper. Mix blended peach mixture with greek yogurt and chopped basil leaves. Set aside.
4. Once shrimp comes out of the oven, mix chayote and peaches (add a bit of chopped basil), and plate all food (see above picture). Put peach-basil yogurt in a separate dish to dip the curry shrimp in...or you could spread the yogurt over the shrimp...either way, it's yummy.

AND ENJOY!