Spicy Shrink-Yer-Butt Salad Recipe
Some of you are unfortunate enough to have heard quite a bit of whining from me lately about being on a diet. For a few weeks now, I’ve given up my nightly cookie-foragings in lieu of a disgustingly low-calorie menu involving far too many vegetables and not nearly enough heaping tablespoons of peanut butter.
In my search for decent dinners that are filling but not fattening, I came up with a salad that is so freaking good I’d eat it even if I wasn’t trying to lose weight, which is the highest compliment I can give a food that’s completely devoid of chocolate. Behold, the Spicy Shrink-Yer-Butt Salad!
Here’s what you’ll need:
• Salad greens—I’m loving the sweet butter lettuce pre-washed bags, E. coli be damned
• Cut-up vegetables of your choice—I like mushrooms, and sometimes yellow or red peppers
• Legumes of some kind—my favorite for this meal are the canned small white beans
• Protein, if you like—some amount of cooked chicken or shrimp, and I suppose tofu would work if you’re the soybeany sort
• Corn—I use the canned variety
• Salsa
• Lime and some kind of salad oil
• Wine vinegar, sweetener (totally optional)
I put the greens and veggies in a big bowl and toss it with a dressing made from a small amount of vegetable oil, lime juice, a bit of wine vinegar, and a shake of Splenda (mix to taste, I like a citrusy, semi-sweet flavor with an acidic bite of vinegar). I salt and pepper everything, and toss again before adding the beans and any shrimp or chicken.
Now I dump in a nice big blort of salsa, with a spoonful or two of corn kernels on top. The whole mess gets tossed, and additional salsa/salt/pepper added if necessary.
DELICIOUS. High fiber, low fat, WW-friendly, and so tasty you’ll think you’re cheating.
Posted: March 20th, 2007 under Cooking/Food, Personally recommended by Linda.
Comments: 20
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Comment from Ellyn
Time: March 20, 2007, 5:35 pm
I love how you used the word “blort” in a recipe. WOWZA 100 points for usage of language! That is great!
Comment from jenn
Time: March 20, 2007, 6:04 pm
Haha, I was totally going to comment on the usage of “blort” as well, which is of course *exactly* what salsa does and the sound it makes. This sounds awesome all-around…I’ll have to give it a try. Lime is my friend.
Comment from jonna
Time: March 20, 2007, 7:03 pm
GOD, thank you. I needed this.
I love this recipe and hell yes, I will make it this week. Oh yes. I’m hoping to bring it together for lunch this week, because if I eat one more of those damn Smart Ones, I will stab myself in the face.
I make a kind of variation with black beans, cut-up cukes, red peppers, onions and corn - no lettuce. I’m a big, big fan of the Splenda/lime juice combo, and apple cider vinegar is a slightly sweeter touch if the wine vinegar is too much for you.
Also, big thanks to you for the 100-calorie popcorn pack suggestion. I just polished off a gigundo bowl for only two points!
Comment from samantha Jo Campen
Time: March 20, 2007, 7:35 pm
I will now use ‘blort’ as a part of my every day vernacular.
Comment from Jennifer
Time: March 21, 2007, 2:00 pm
Jonniker’s right on with the cider vinegar, I use it and don’t need other sweetener. I tried the salad with garbanzo beans plus edamame (yummy yum), and spinach combo’d with butter lettuce. Red and yellow bell peppers, and lots of the corn. I might pick up some pre-marinated tofu for the next time around too. Great suggestion! And it’s so colorful too.
Keep those recipes coming! (Do you want some others from your readers? I have a great low-fat “chickpea a la king” recipe that even freezes well ’cause there’s no dairy in it. Give a shout-out and I’ll email it to ya.)
Comment from laughing mommy
Time: March 21, 2007, 2:16 pm
Thanks for posting this recipe! It sounds great and anything that is WW friendly is a bonus.
Comment from laughing mommy
Time: March 21, 2007, 2:17 pm
Also, I’m with Samantha Jo Campen.
I’m going to try to use “blort” in a sentence today.
Comment from Jenny
Time: March 22, 2007, 2:29 pm
I’m not sure how WW mine is, but I’ve been making a shrink-yer-butt salad that sounds very similar albeit blortless. I’ve been putting in some dried cranberries (yummy!) and fresh blueberries for sweet and antioxidant or whatever, and I luurrve me some radishes. I’m definitely adding legumes-of-my-choice to the mix now — never occurred to me!
Comment from Jenny
Time: March 22, 2007, 2:31 pm
I meant “WW-friendly.”
Not, like, that is so totally WW!
Comment from Whimspiration
Time: March 22, 2007, 11:47 pm
Definitely loving the “blort” here too. I’m not on WW, but that is a Faboo salad recipe, Thanks tons!
Comment from Kelley, Dave and Nancy
Time: March 24, 2007, 3:59 pm
We made your Shrink-your-butt salad for dinner tonight, and all 3 of us adults thought it was wonderful. The 11 year old, not so much, but what do you expect? He eats Ramen 5 times a week. He had a few leaves of lettuce and some hunks of chicken. However, the adults thought it was yummy, and an EXCELLENT warm weather meal, and since it’s 81 degrees here in NC at almost 7pm, I think it’s perfect. We have enough leftover ingredients to have it again for lunch, either tomorrow or to take to work on Monday. I will definitely be sharing this with people at work who are on the WW plan, and don’t worry, I’ll give you full credit. Especially for the BLORT of salsa. (love that word!)(blorty blorty blort!) 
Thanks!
Comment from Melanie
Time: March 29, 2007, 8:31 pm
Yum. I could totally go for that.
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Comment from Salamanda
Time: December 2, 2008, 8:47 pm
I have been making a pretty similar salad which is my attempt to EASILY recreate some of the yum of McDonald’s Southwest Chix Salad. If I wanted to get capture the original salad, I could look up a copycat recipe and marinate, saute, and season up a homemade version in just maybe 40 minutes or so. But I want a quick, easy substitute, and here it is:
lettuce, I usually use romaine
half a small diced roma tomato
2 slices of deli turkey, ripped into little ‘chunks’
a tablespoon or more of canned black beans
a bit of sliced red or white onion
a TINY bit of grated cheese (maybe a loose half tablespoon)
and most importantly Newman’s Own Light Lime Vinagrette
If you have ever had a McDonald’s Southwestern Salad, you will see that my sad imitation has a lot more in common with Spicy Shrink-Yer-Butt than the McDonald’s thing. No sweet chicken breast marinade, no creamy dressing, no insanely delicious green pepper and corn mixture. But good in its own right.
My husband liked this salad, but said it would be better with a little Doritos on top. Wouldn’t everything!? But he has a good point–maybe in place of my tiny sprinkling of cheese, a tiny sprinkling of tortilla chip crumbles would be tasty.
Comment from Hannah - No Faxing Payday Loan
Time: January 22, 2009, 2:00 am
I like this Shrink-Yer-Butt Salad it’s just what we need for summer period! it is light and healthy. thanx for nice receips, I will use them
Comment from Woods - is bronchitis contagious
Time: June 3, 2009, 3:12 pm
Yer-Butt Salad is just awesome. My husband liked it very much. Yesterday I came across this and immediately tried it since it was interesting. Thanks. I was able to make people happy at home with this.
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