Two nutritious side dishes: Baked Sweet Potato Fries with a yummy Sriracha dipping sauce and Shrimp Kale Caesar Salad!
(This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Balance Your Plate and CPK Frozen. The opinions and text are all mine.)
Making healthy side dishes doesn’t have to be hard or take a lot of time! Here are two easy and delicious recipes perfect for pizza night: Kale Caesar Salad with Shrimp and Baked Sweet Potato Fries with a Sriracha Dipping Sauce! Raise your hand if this holiday season has been the busiest yet? I feel like I’m struggling to get a homemade dinner on the table.
What’s really helped me in the dinner department is using frozen prepared foods to help round out my meals. It saves so much time to heat up a frozen pizza like California Pizza Kitchen‘s Crispy Thin Crust Pizza’s (Five Cheese and Tomato is my favorite!) Put together a couple of fruit and veggie side dishes while the pizza is cooking in the oven and dinner is finished in no time!
Whether it’s date night while the kids are at a friend’s or Friday family pizza & game night, you can make a delicious, easy and balanced meal in under 20 minutes. Just because it’s a busy holiday season doesn’t mean you have to compromise on taste, nutrition or convenience. Remember to use your freezer and Balance Your Plate to make your life easier!
You will love these two easy side dishes that I paired with my pizza! I made a Kale Caesar Salad that I added shrimp to, tossed with a homemade dressing that was SO good and super simple. I also made some Baked Sweet Potato Fries that were quick and easy and dipped them in a Sriracha Mayo dipping sauce. Holy yum! Paired with a slice of CPK’s Five Cheese & Tomato Pizza, this was an easy dinner the whole family enjoyed! I hope you’ll give these recipes a try!
Baked Sweet Potato Fries + Kale Caesar salad - 2 nutritious & easy side dishes!
Ingredients
- 1 CPK Frozen Pizza I suggest Five Cheese & Tomato
- Kale Caesar salad:
- Chopped Kale
- 1 pound large shrimp deveined & peeled
- salt & pepper to taste
- olive oil as needed
- Greek Caesar Dressing:
- 2 5.3-oz containers Non-Fat Greek Yogurts
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- zest from 1/2 lemon
- 2 tsp. fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp. anchovy paste or more as needed
- 1/2 tsp. salt or more as needed
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp. milk or more as needed
- Baked Sweet Potato Fries:
- 3 sweet potatoes peeled and sliced into thin matchsticks
- salt & pepper to taste
- olive oil as needed
- Sriracha Mayo Dipping Sauce:
- 1/4 cup light mayonnaise
- Sriracha to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to temperature required for the California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizza. Bake as directed.
- Meanwhile, mix together the Greek yogurt, garlic, lemon juice and zest, anchovy paste, salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce in a blender or food processor. Add in milk a little at a time until thickness desired. Taste and add seasonings as desired. Set aside.
- Toss the sweet potatoes with olive oil and salt & pepper. Place them on one side of a sheet pan in one layer.
- Once the pizza is finished, pull from oven and keep warm.
- Turn the oven temperature up to 425º F and bake sweet potatoes for 18-20 minutes, or until fork tender. Remove from oven.
- Meanwhile, toss shrimp with olive oil and salt & pepper and place on the opposite side of the sheet pan with the sweet potatoes. Turn the oven to the broil setting and place back in the oven. Broil the sweet potatoes and shrimp until the shrimp are opaque and the sweet potatoes are toasted.
- Mix together the mayo and Sriracha and serve alongside the sweet potato fries.
- Toss the kale with the homemade Caesar salad dressing. Top with shrimp and add croutons and shredded parmesan cheese, if desired. Serve with a slice of pizza and enjoy!
You might like these other nutritious side dishes too:
Caramelized Butternut Squash
Greek Farro Salad
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