Coconut Lime Shrimp with Cilantro Rice, from Leslie Budewitz

LESLIE BUDEWITZ:  This recipe was another fun discovery in the same magazine, picked up at the natural food store, as the Roasted Apricot and Ricotta Toast, proving that you never know where your next meal is coming from! The combination of flavors is terrific, and this is quick and easy enough, with minimal prep, for a weeknight dinner. 

Whenever I see lemon juice in a recipe, I cut it and add more if needed, as I often find the amount given too much for the tastebuds in my household, and of course, once it’s in there, that’s about all you’ll taste. Happily, lime juice doesn’t call for the same caution. 

If you’d like a little heat, add a dash of cayenne or red pepper flakes to the shrimp after you add the coconut milk and lime juice. 

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Coconut Lime Shrimp with Cilantro Rice

For the cilantro rice: 

1 cup jasmine rice

1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped

1 tablespoon lime juice

For the shrimp:

1 tablespoon olive oil

2 cloves garlic, minced 

1 pound raw shrimp, peeled and deveined (thaw and drain if frozen) 

salt and freshly ground black pepper 

1/2 cup coconut milk

1 tablespoon lime juice

For garnish:

2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped 

lime slices or wedges 

Start the rice, in a rice cooker or a pot on the stove. 

Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat the oil. Add garlic and cook approximately 30 seconds, until fragrant. Add shrimp and season with salt and pepper. Cook 2 to 3 minutes on each side, until the little darlings turn pink on both sides.

Stir in coconut milk and 1 tablespoon lime juice and simmer 2 minutes.

When the rice is ready, fluff it with a fork and stir in 1/4 cup chopped cilantro and 1 tablespoon lime juice. 

Serve shrimp over the rice and garnish with fresh cilantro and lime. Spoon any extra sauce over the shrimp for extra creaminess. 

Serves 4. 

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At Seattle Spice Shop, owner Pepper Reece has whipped up the perfect blend of food, friends, and flavor. But the sweet smell of success can be hazardous . . .  

Spring is in full bloom in Pike Place Market, where Pepper is celebrating lavender’s culinary uses and planning a festival she hopes will become an annual event. When her friend Lavender Liz offers to share tips for promoting the much-loved—and occasionally maligned—herb, Pepper makes a trek to the charming town of Salmon Falls. But someone has badly damaged Liz’s greenhouse, throwing a wrench in the feisty grower’s plans for expansion. Suspicions quickly focus on an employee who’s taken to the hills. 

Then Liz is found dead among her precious plants, stabbed by a pruning knife. In Salmon Falls, there’s one in every pocket. 

Pepper digs in, untangling the tensions between Liz and a local restaurateur with eyes on a picturesque but neglected farm, a jealous ex-boyfriend determined to profit from Liz’s success, and a local growers’ cooperative. She’s also hot on the scent of a trail of her own, sniffing out the history of her sweet dog, Arf. 

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Take a step back in time with All God's Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields Collection of historical short mysteries, featuring the Agatha-Award winning "All God's Sparrows" and other stories imagining the life of real-life historical figure Mary Fields, born into slavery in 1832, during the last thirty years of her life, in Montana. Out September 17, 2024 from Beyond the Page Publishing.  

“Finely researched and richly detailed, All God’s Sparrows and Other Stories is a wonderful collection. I loved learning about this fascinating woman . . . and what a character she is! Kudos to Leslie Budewitz for bringing her to life so vividly.” —Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of Crow Mary

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Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Spice Shop Mysteries set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries, set in NW Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody, standalone suspense, most recently Blind Faith. She is the winner of Agatha Awards in three categories: Best Nonfiction (2011), Best First Novel (2013), and Best Short Story (2018). Her latest books are To Err is Cumin, the 8th Spice Shop Mystery and All God's Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields Collection, in September 2024. Watch for Lavender Lies Bleeding, the 9th Spice Shop Mystery, on July 15, 2025.

A past president of Sisters in Crime and former national board member of Mystery Writers of America, Leslie lives in northwest Montana with her husband, a musician and doctor of natural medicine. 

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