Recipe for Shrimp Salad

by Jess
(Malta)

Do you like shrimp? Well after you eat this shrimp salad, you'll love it! It is a great light meal on its own, or you can serve it as a side salad to a larger meal.

Garlic shrimp salad is healthy and nutritious, providing a good source of protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals while remaining low in calories and fats.

*Prep and Cook Time: 25 minutes

*Serves 4


Ingredients:

4 medium cloves garlic, pressed

1 lb medium-sized cooked shrimp, best bought still frozen

1 bunch asparagus, cut into 1-inch pieces, discarding bottom fourth

3 TBS vegetable broth

1 fresh tomato, diced into 1/2-inch pieces

3 TBS chopped fresh parsley (or 3 tsp dried parsley if fresh not available)

Small head of romaine lettuce, chopped

*optional 2 oz crumbled goat cheese

Salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste


Dressing:

3 TBS fresh lemon juice

2 TBS extra virgin olive oil

1 TBS Dijon mustard

1 tsp honey

Salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste


Directions:

Press garlic and let sit for at least 5 minutes to bring out its hidden health benefits.

Make sure shrimp is completely thawed and patted dry with a paper towel, or it will dilute the flavor of the salad.

Add broth to medium skillet and after it has heated up, Healthy Sauté asparagus for 5 minutes.

Whisk together lemon, oil, mustard, honey, garlic, salt and pepper. Toss shrimp, asparagus, parsley, and tomato with dressing and herbs. Allow shrimp salad to marinate for at least 15 minutes.

Discard outer leaves of lettuce head, rinse, dry, and chop. Serve shrimp mixture on bed of lettuce and top with crumbled goat cheese, if desired.



Healthy Cooking Tip:

Buying shrimp that is still frozen will ensure that it will be as fresh as possible. Because all shrimp comes frozen in stores once they have thawed they lose their freshness very quickly.

This recipe was created to be very quick and easy, so we added already cooked shrimp to the ingredient list. If you have the time, obviously it would have better flavor if the shrimp was raw and you cooked it yourself.

Prawns and shrimps can be boiled, steamed, grilled, sautéed, baked or deep-fried and can be cooked with or without the shell, with the vein or deveined.


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Original Recipe for Shrimp Salad