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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.
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