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Elegant Shrimp Salad

posted in salads [more from this topic] by Hj on Monday, April 11th 2011 at 2:54 PM.

~Shrimp

10 shrimp  large peeled devein

1 lemon juiced

1 orange juiced

2 c. water or mix with some chicken base or

   broth

2 T. lemon juice

1/2 tsp. kosher salt

~Sweet Shallot Vinaigrette

1/2  c. shallots diced

1/2  c. x –virgin olive oil   divided

1 orange zest ñ juiced

1 tsp. chiles minced jalapeño diced fine or

   Asian chilies

1 tsp. honey

1 tsp. champagne vinegar

 

~ Salad

1 T. mint  chopped

salt ñ pepper to taste

2 c. oranges peeled sliced into discs

4 snap peas julienned for garnish

 

Shrimp ~using lemon ñ orange juice mixed -marinate shrimp about an hour. Drain ñ discard juice from shrimp ñ add *water- 2 tablespoons lemon juice ñ salt to a saucepan. Bring to boil. Add shrimp ñ cook 30 seconds-until shrimp is just cooked through. Cover - chill until cold.

Vinaigrette~ sweat shallots in 1 tablespoon x- virgin olive oil until translucent- not brown- about 5 minutes. Cool shallots in mixing bowl. Mix in separate bowl remaining ingredients toss well. Add cooled shallots –toss again. Make salad- add shrimp.

Mix 1/4 c. vinaigrette- mint- salt ñ pepper - toss. Line plate with citrus discs ñ with shrimp.

Garnish ~shredded snap peas ñ slices of thin cut lemon.

5 to 6 servings.

 Sorry about the spacing and a half between listed ingredients.  Why it copies from my files to that form is frustrating n time comsuming- but it does with this new format on site

Have asked before why this happens and still not fixed.

tagged: hj, seafood

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