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Grilled Shrimp Salad with Wheat Berries

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This Grilled Shrimp Salad with Wheat Berries will not leave you hungry and have you searching for something else to eat. It’s filling, good for you and delicious!

Grilled Shrimp Salad with Wheat Berries I can just snarf up grilled shrimp one after the other. Shrimp cooks so quickly and is so good about taking on the flavors of spices or the sauces that you use. If you don’t cook it in a pound of butter and cheese, it is very healthy to eat too. Now that does sound pretty good I must say, but this Grilled Shrimp Salad with Wheat Berries has no guilt attached.

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Grilled Shrimp Salad with Wheat Berries With the warmer weather coming, I’ve stepped up my workouts and am attempting to lighten our meals too. A lightened meal shouldn’t leave you hungry an hour later and have you searching for something to eat. A salad, if prepared correctly can be a great meal. Wheat berries are a great source of fiber and protein. Both of which will help keep you satisfied. They also add another texture to this anything but ordinary salad. All of the yummy Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers keep you noshing until you can’t nosh anymore. I’ve topped the whole plate of magic with a sprinkling of freshly grated parmesan cheese.

A white plate filled with a green salad, cucumbers, and tomatoes then topped with grilled shrimp and garnished with cheese. Wooden bowls of grated cheese and wheat berries sit in the background. Don’t these shrimp look amazing? After I cleaned them, I plopped them into a ziplock bag and drizzled them with olive oil and then sprinkled them with my go-to spice rub. They even taste better than they look. I drizzled a light and lemony vinaigrette over this salad and ate it for 3 meals before it was gone.

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A white plate filled with greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, and grilled shrimp then garnished with shredded cheese.

Grilled Shrimp Salad with Wheat Berries

Author: Hostess At Heart
This Grilled Shrimp Salad with Wheat Berries will not leave you hungry.  It's filling, good for you, and delicious!
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Main Dish, Salad, Seafood
Cuisine American
Keyword: Grilled Shrimp, Grilled Shrimp Salad, Wheat Berries
Servings: 6 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb raw shrimp cleaned and shell removed
  • 1 cup wheat berries uncooked ( I used Hard Red Winter berries)
  • 2 teaspoons of Julie's Spice Rub seasoning
  • Greens I used romaine
  • 1 English cucumber chopped
  • Tomatoes sliced (I used grape tomatoes)
  • Parmesan freshly grated

Lemon Vinaigrette

  • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1 tbsp non-fat yogurt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/8 tsp black pepper

Instructions
 

  • In a medium saucepan, combine wheat berries and 3-1/2 cups cold water. Boil for 50 to 60 minutes or until tender. Drain and rinse to cool.
  • In a bowl or zip lock bag, add shrimp. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with dry rub seasoning. Chill while the wheat berries cook.
  • Combine Vinaigrette ingredients in a shaker jar. Shake to blend.
  • 15 minutes before the wheat berries are finished cooking preheat prepared grill.  Grill shrimp 1-1/2 to 2 minutes on each side.
  • Assemble by placing lettuce on a plate. Sprinkle approximately 1/4 cup of cooked wheat berries onto the lettuce. Add cucumbers and tomatoes. Drizzle with vinaigrette, and garnish with shrimp and parmesan cheese.

Notes

Some instructions say to soak your wheat berries in water overnight. Others say it doesn't make much difference.

Nutrition

Calories: 222kcalCarbohydrates: 28gProtein: 20gFat: 3gCholesterol: 190mgSodium: 861mgPotassium: 144mgFiber: 5gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 95IUVitamin C: 8.4mgCalcium: 141mgIron: 2.9mg

Nutritional Disclaimer

This recipe was calculated using the exact brands and measurements I used to make this recipe. If you are following a strict diet please note changing anything will cause the nutritional info to change. My calculations are intended as a guide only.

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44 Comments

  2. I love shrimp in any form! This salad looks absolutely divine! I could dig into that bowl and finish the entire bowl! I am saving the recipe! Thanks for sharing.

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  3. I’m not normally a shrimp person, but I think I would really like these due to your spice rub. They look really good! Where do you find wheatberries, Julie? I am not familiar with those. They look like they would add a good texture to the salad. The vinaigrette sounds like a great dressing for this combination. Jeff and I are trying to lighten things up a little, too. We’ve had a lot of company lately, and I always make dessert when company is here. My clothes need more recipes like this one! 🙂

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    1. That darned clothes shrinkage! I think those chocolate tours automatically shrink your clothes too! Bob’s red Mill sells wheat berries and I have seen them in bulk at @holefoods or the health market in more mainstream grocers. I really loved them in this salad. There texture is great and they are nice an nutty.

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  5. I like making shrimp salad. This looks wonderful with the wheat berries. Thanks for sharing. Congrats on your 2 years blogiversary.

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  6. I found some wheat berries in my basement refrigerator, brought them upstairs and printed your recipe. Now, all I need is some shrimp 🙂

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  7. I love a good salad and this is something I could tell a good salad. I love everything you put in here, Julie. Thanks for bringing this delicious, healthy food. 🙂

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  8. Hi Julie, what a lovely recipe you have here! Just a question. What can I use instead of wheat berries? I don’t think I can get a hold of them in my neck of the woods. Thanks!

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    1. Thank you Roberta! You can use any whole grain like farro, spelt, bulgur wheat or even barley. Let me know if you make it and what you think. Enjoy your day Roberta and thank you for coming by.

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  9. Great looking salad. I love grilled shrimpy’s but I am not sure if heating the grill up for 45 min to cook for about 30 seconds is worth it. What am I saying I have done crazier stuff to make a recipe come out right. Cheers!!

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    1. Thanks Quinn! I know, but it tastes so good! You could use a grill pan or just saute them Quinn. I’m sure you could put this one the table with your own amazing flair!

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  10. Shrimp and I are like two peas in a pod – love any recipe with them. Wheat berries are something I don’t eat often – I keep buying all of these seeds/berries and so on from Whole Foods, store them in the basement refrigerator and forget I have them. I need to keep a log, don’t you think? Love the light dressing too!

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    1. Ha! We are two peas in a pod. I do the same thing and then it’s like what recipe did I buy this for?

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  15. Great looking summery dish Julie! Love how your shrimp look – did you grill them? I’m not sure if I missed that part in your post or not. Love too that you used your special spice rub 🙂 It has sure come in handy eh? I can’t wait for the nicer weather to be here and stay. Then I’ll be gorging on all that yummy goodness in your salad. We worked in the gardens today and I froze to death for 4 hours, it was so cold in the 40’s early this morning,but by the time we left at 2pm, the temp was 56deg Grrrrrrrr!

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    1. Thank you Loretta! Yep I grilled those shrimp. It takes longer to heat up the grill than it does to cook them. We’re having the same weather. 40’s early in the day and upper 50’s later in the afternoon. I saw a few tulips finally blooming though! Good bye ole man winter and good riddance!

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    1. Thank you Marisa! They are delicious and not as soft as pasta. Kind of like farro or spelt.

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    1. Hi Leslie! I got the wheat berries at whole foods in the bulk isle. I would think that they would be available where ever whole grains are sold. Bob’s Red Mill packages them and I know that brand is available at HyVee in their Health Market.

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  20. Oh, I love salads – any kind and in any combination, form or shape! This one looks amazing and I’m so hungry right now….

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