Preparing salads, which include shrimp, do not forget that the choice of seafood must be approached responsibly. Untreated raw shrimp are ideal for any salad, and if you cook them yourself salad will have a rich and colorful shrimp taste. Keep in mind that if you buy raw shrimp, after preparing a third of their weight will go to the shell.
Cook seafood must not only in salt water - try to add to them spices, bay leaf, Goroshkova pepper, parsley or dill. If you want to buy ready-made salad shrimp, remember that the pink color of frozen shellfish says that they have been subjected to cooking. Re-send them to the pot should not be - they will be ready to eat immediately after thawing. Just put the package under cold water and let soak seafood for some time at room temperature.
For the filling of shrimp salad is perfect any of the vegetable oils: olive, corn, sunflower. Mayonnaise can be used, either alone or with the addition of ketchup, lemon juice. But most of all love shrimp various sauces based on balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, mustard, garlic, herbs and spices.
Shrimp salad with cucumber and Chinese cabbage
With the availability of components within its structure, salad with shrimp and Chinese cabbage will be one of the favorite dishes of your household. It is cooked very quickly and no less briskly eaten.
Ingredients:
Cabbage - 1 small head
200 grams of shrimp
cucumber - 2 pieces
100 grams of cheese
mayonnaise (low-fat) - 50 grams
Cooking method:
Boil shrimp in salted brine, add the spices and herbs when cooking. Remove, drain the, remove the shells and place in salad bowl. Fresh cucumbers cut into thin strips. Chop Chinese cabbage medium diced or Narva hands roughly equal pieces. Hard cheese grate by larger side. All the ingredients are mixed in a dish, season with light low-fat mayonnaise. You decide to add salt or not, listen to your liking.
Salad with shrimp "Caesarion"
The taste of this dish is very similar to well-known salad "Caesar", yet they have significant differences. Try for a variety of your menu prepared this salad with Chinese cabbage and croutons and, I assure you, he will not leave anyone indifferent.
Ingredients:
Cabbage - 1 small head
Frozen shrimp - 400 grams
12 cherry tomatoes
red pepper - 2 pieces
bread (loaf or baguette) - Half a loaf
hard cheese - 50 grams
half of one lemon
Garlic - 2 cloves
vegetable oil - 50 grams
Mayonnaise - 100 grams
sugar, salt - a pinch
Cooking method:
Before you start creating a culinary masterpiece, you need 30 minutes to marinate the shrimp. For the marinade, mix the juice of half a lemon with olive oil, add a pinch of sugar and salt and leave in the cold. While seafood marinated, get training crackers. Baguette or loaf cut into thin slices, then use a sharp knife make them into cubes. Sliced bread fry in a pan with a few tablespoons of olive oil. The lamp must be strong to crackers remained soft inside, but at the same time, were roasted outside. When crackers are ready, place them on a paper towel to absorb excess oil.
An important role in the salad "Caesarion" plays sauce. So, start making it. Skip the garlic through chesnokodavku or chop it with a knife, add 50 grams of grated cheese and mayonnaise. It would be best pyurirovat this sauce with a hand blender. If you do not have it, do not despair - the pieces of garlic and cheese only add spice to your dish and severity.
During the preparation of the sauce shrimp probably already marinated. Send them to the hot pan and hold over high heat. Cherry should be divided into quarters. Bulgarian pepper wash, cut the tails, remove the seeds and midway inside, cut into strips. Chop the cabbage strips, leaving several broad lush leaves for decoration.
In this salad, everything is important: the taste and color and serve. Therefore, to make it look attractive, arrange on a platter a few leaves Chinese cabbage, lay the top layers of vegetables, alternating with shrimp and crackers. Salad turned out to not dry, do not regret the sauce on each layer. Garnish with cherry tomatoes dish, sprinkle with herbs and enjoy its wonderful taste!
Salad with olives, peppers and prawns
It's no secret that the shrimp perfectly with vegetables. Vegetables can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, fried or even roasted. We would like to offer you an unusual salad, which includes a lot of vegetables, and its taste favorably emphasize prawns with spicy garlic sauce.
We suggest you start with the cooking sauce, salad, because he needs some time to brew. Take a separate bowl, skip the garlic cloves through a shredder and mix with wine vinegar, without ceasing to stir, pour the olive oil, add pepper and salt. Set aside until the side.
At this time, enjoy a vegetable salad: Boil the potatoes in their jackets for 15 minutes, remove from the water, let cool, peel and cut into small pieces. Green beans should cook for 10 minutes in boiling water, then remove and cut well. Onions and sweet peppers cut into thin rings. Boil hard boiled eggs, divide each into quarters. Cabbage leaves divide into several pieces to tear his hands in a salad, leave the rest for processing food. Tomatoes cut into strips. Do not forget to boil the shrimp if they are raw. If you bought frozen cooked, simply thaw them under cold water.
Proceed to assemble salad: cabbage leaves on top lay out the potatoes, peppers and beans, then onions and chopped tomatoes with pieces of Chinese cabbage. Lay the shrimp on top of vegetables with olives, on the edges - pieces of eggs. Just before serving the salad on the table generously fill it with sauce and sprinkle with a mixture of spices. Mix only very cautiously.
Citrus salad with Chinese cabbage and shrimp
This dish is perfect for people keen on a healthy lifestyle. Light, nutritious, balanced salad will become your favorite breakfast.
Ingredients:
Orange - 2 pieces
Cabbage - 1 small head
Onions - 1 pc
peeled shrimp - 220 grams
Half bunch of parsley
olive oil - 50 ml
pepper, salt - a pinch
Cooking method:
Take oranges, one of them clean, clear skin, flesh cut into beautiful slices of citrus. Another orange cut in half and squeeze the juice out of it - it is useful for the preparation of filling. Wash Chinese cabbage, cut into slices, onion in the salad should be cut into thin rings. Chop the parsley finely.
Boil shrimp in salted brine with spices, remove from the water. Mix the cooked shellfish and oranges, cabbage, greens and onions. To prepare for the citrus salad dressing, you need to mix the juice of one orange vegetable oil, do not forget the salt and pepper. Put all ingredients in a large salad dish, pour the resulting sauce, sprinkle with chopped parsley and slices of oranges.
Contents:
Mushroom salad with crab
Salad "Brazilian" with lobster
Salad with crayfish and avocado
Fruit salad with tuna and prunes
Shrimp salad with pears and avocados
The composition of seafood salad usually consists of: sea fish, squid, mussels, crab, shrimp, lobster, crayfish, and even scallops. The secret to cooking masterpieces quite simple: seafood must be fresh, all components simply have to be in harmony with each other. Salads with seafood dishes are considered to be useful, because they are low in calories, but at the same time, satisfying and nutritious. Perfect for the diet of people who are trying to keep in shape or those who want to lose weight.
Mushroom salad with crab
Some believe exquisite seafood delicacies, others can not imagine their daily menu without them. We can not agree that the benefits of seafood for human obviously great. We invite you to prepare an unusual salad with crab meat and two kinds of fungi.
Ingredients:
crab meat (canned) - 200 grams
One bank canned honey agaric
Avocado - 1 piece
fresh mushrooms - 200 grams
100 grams of mayonnaise
celery (root) - 1 piece
chicken eggs - 2 pieces
greenery
Cooking method:
Boil the eggs and cut them into cubes. Celery root must be washed, cleaned or scratched with a knife, then boil in salted water, then chop. Pickled mushrooms (better to take mushrooms) remove from the can, drain excess liquid, rinse in a colander under water, do not need to cut, in a salad, they will spend. Fresh mushrooms (pick mushrooms), wash, chop finely and fry over high heat, then screw the fire and boil for some time under the cover of 10 minutes.
Avocados are divided into two parts, remove the pit, peel and cut into strips. Canned crab meat, remove from the can, drain excess liquid and add to the rest of the components of food. All add up in a bowl, add the mayonnaise and mix. Garnish with a sprig of parsley ready for salad and slices of egg.
Salad "Brazilian" with lobster
Lobster dish always considered aristocrats, no wonder the French call them, "Cardinals table." Lobster is rightly considered an element of luxury living. Their meat is very tender, when properly prepared, has a unique rich taste, something resembling crayfish. If the "Brazilian" salad you do not meet the store lobster meat, you can easily replace it with meat cancer.
Ingredients:
For the salad:
avocados - 2 pieces
230 grams of canned lobster meat
lettuce - 1 bunch
1 medium onion
sweet pepper - 2 pieces
For the sauce:
6 tablespoons white wine
2 teaspoons tomato paste
mustard powder - half a spoon
a handful of chopped parsley
half a cup of homemade mayonnaise
Cooking method:
Start preparing salad with avocado, Take the fruit, wash, clean, cut in two, remove the seeds. The remaining pulp is cut into strips. Put the pieces of fruit in a stainless steel container. Separately, finely chop the onion, chop parsley. Send greens and onions to avocados, pour in the wine, which must first be connected with mustard powder. This mixture should be put in the cold for one hour.
From lobster meat, select pieces of shells, and now it is ready for use. Salad Wash peppers, remove seeds and tails, cut into thin strips. Take the sauce: In a bowl, combine tomato paste and mayonnaise. Whisk the sauce whisk until creamy texture. For a few plates lay in a circle lettuce. Above them, let it be pepper, then lobster meat, marinated Spoon the mixture of avocado, a little sauce on each dish, greens - salad is ready.
Salad with crayfish and avocado
It's no secret that an important part of a balanced diet are seafood. Almost without having contraindications, they are easily absorbed by the body and give us a lot of amino acids, trace elements and minerals. Even in ancient Greece in the first cookbooks mentioned that the most wholesome food - the one that came out of the sea.
Ingredients:
For the salad:
Cervical cancer in brine - 200 grams
Avocado - 2 large fetus
lettuce - 150 grams
for decoration - a slice of lemon, olives
Sauce "Cocktail"
ketchup - 2 tbsp
mayonnaise - 5 tablespoons
20 grams of cognac
Barbecue sauce"
green onion - half of the beam
Garlic - 1 clove
olive oil - 40 grams
balsamic vinegar - 2 teaspoons
half a teaspoon of sugar
salt, pepper - a pinch
Cooking method:
For the sauce "Barbecue" mix in a bowl of chopped green onion, garlic, add the specified amount of vinegar and vegetable oil. Salt, sugar and pepper, bring to the desired taste refills. Sauce "Cocktail" is prepared by mixing the stated amounts of mayonnaise and ketchup, they must add one or two tablespoons of brandy. Corolla bring the mixture until smooth.
When the sauce is ready, go directly to the salad. Avocados Wash, remove the peel, remove pit. Fruit pulp is cut into strips and season with sauce "BBQ." Open the jar with crawfish tails, remove them from the brine and press, if necessary, cut in several places. At first lay out lettuce marinated slices of avocado, then pieces of crayfish tails, pour the sauce, "Cocktail." To decorate, use slices of lemon and olives.
Fruit salad with tuna and prunes
The easiest diet, useful and widely considered the Mediterranean, which consists of a variety of seafood, vegetables and fruit. Let's look at one kind of prepared salads by its rules.
Ingredients:
1 pickled cucumber
Canned tuna - 1 can
two medium avocado
sun-dried plums - 100 grams
one onion
½ cup mayonnaise
three tablespoons ketchup
lemon juice
Cooking method:
Dried prunes rinse with water and pour boiling water, leave for a while, let the infusion. Lightly fry the chopped onion in vegetable oil. With avocado, remove the skin, remove from the middle of the bone, the flesh of the fruit should be cut with a knife or mash with a fork. Open a can of tuna, you remove the meat, carefully divide it into parts, thus removing the bone. Cucumbers grate. For the filling, prepare a mixture of: squeeze the juice from a lemon, add the ketchup and mayonnaise in specified proportions, stir. All components of the dishes are interconnected tucking sauce.
Shrimp salad with pears and avocados
Seafood is always beneficial to look at the festive table, but also because they can be cooked quickly and everyday dishes. Shrimp can be called universal component. Delicious, fragrant, beautiful to look at, they are easy part of any salad and perfectly set off the taste.
Ingredients:
200 grams of peeled shrimp
Pear - 2 pieces
avocado - 2 fetus
lettuce - 1 bunch
one tablespoon of mustard
young radish - 100 grams
100 grams of cream (25% fat)
salt
Cooking method:
Boil shrimp in salted brine, if they are frozen in finished form, give them a few minutes 'warm' in the cold water without removing them from the packaging. With avocado, remove the peel, remove large bones, cut into cubes. Pears for this salad is better to take a solid, winter varieties. Clean them from the skin, remove the midway, cut the tails, cut fruit as well as avocados.
Radish wash with water, remove the knife tails and cut into thin slices. All the ingredients are mixed in a single container, add sliced or torn lettuce leaves, season with sauce for cooking which should rub a spoonful of mustard in 100 grams of cream, adding a pinch of salt. Salad is ready, serve it on the table.
Uniqueness and variety of salads with seafood, combined with fruits, vegetables, various sauces and ingredients will satisfy your most demanding rich taste gourmet. So do not hesitate to cook them - let them become one of your signature dish.
