Summer Meal Ideas
Easy summer suppers — clean summer rolls, one pan summer squash orzo, a shrimp boil, double bacon cheeseburgers — for hot nights when nobody wants a heavy meal.
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lunchClean Summer Rolls
As I’m trying to transition to more clean eating, these were easy and fun to make (and filling for 3!)
Austi CritchfieldIngredients
- 1 pack Rice paper wraps
- .5 lb Shrimp (frozen)
- 2 Avocado (diced)
- 8 leaves Butter lettuce (shredded)
- 4 carrots Carrots (grated)
- 1 Cucumber (thinly sliced)(
Instructions
- 1Peep the carrots, lettuce, cucumber, shrimp, and avocado. Make sure they are in bowls/plates that are easy to grab!
- 2Submerge a rice wrapper in warm water for 10-15s and lay flat on a dry surface
- 3Fill the wrapper with desired amounts of the prepped ingredients
- 4Fold sides of the wrapper in and then roll lenghwise, away from you, as you tuck the ingredients in. (Repeat steps 2-4 for the amount of ingredients you’ve prepped)
- 5Serve plain or with sweet chili or peanut sauce for dipping
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Open in Pepper →Hot Nights Call For Lighter Dinners
When it's 95 degrees at six o'clock, the oven stays off and dinner comes together with whatever is fresh and fast. Squash, tomatoes, shrimp, a handful of greens — that's most of the work already done.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection in July and August, when the garden is giving more squash than anyone knows what to do with and the kids are in and out the back door all evening.
Every recipe here leans on summer produce and quick cooking: Clean Summer Rolls with shrimp and avocado, Healthy Summer Salad, One Pan Summer Squash Orzo, Summer Squash Fritters, a strawberry chicken green salad, a shrimp boil with red potatoes and corn, and burgers two ways — Double Bacon Chez Burger and Spinach + Feta Turkey Burgers.
Quick Tips
- 1
Salt the squash first
Grate zucchini or yellow squash, toss with 1 teaspoon salt, and let it sit 10 minutes, then squeeze dry in a towel. Fritters hold together instead of steaming apart.
- 2
Soak rice paper briefly
Dip each wrapper in warm water for 10 to 15 seconds only — it keeps softening on the counter and tears if you soak it longer.
- 3
Don't overcook the shrimp
Shrimp are done in 2 to 3 minutes, as soon as they curl into a C and turn opaque. Pull them off the heat right then.
- 4
Dress salads at the table
Greens go limp within about 10 minutes of dressing, so toss strawberries, chicken, and greens right before you sit down.
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