If you want to add some recipes for delicious and light dishes to your culinary treasury, then salads with shrimp, lettuce and cucumber will take their rightful place there. Crispy, with a pleasant fresh taste, they are perfect for the festive table, and diversify the diet of the family on weekdays. The vegetables included in the composition will provide you with useful vitamins and fiber, and shrimp will provide the necessary protein (while they practically do not contain fat).
Salads with shrimp, lettuce and cucumber
For cooking you will need:
- about 1.5 kg of unpeeled shrimp;
- 3 fresh crisp cucumbers;
- red lettuce - half (if large) or a whole medium size;
- 5 quail eggs;
- 300 g (about 1 can) of black olives;
- juice of one lemon, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil;
- lettuce leaves;
- salt and to taste spices.
Boil the shrimp and then peel off the shells. Quail eggs also need to be boiled, and then cooled and finely chopped. Cut the onion into half rings, and the cucumbers with either strips or cubes - that is, as you like. And now a large salad dish, preferably flat, line with lettuce leaves, and on top put the prepared ingredients mixed with each other. At the very end of the salad you need to pour the dressing: for it, mix the squeezed clove of garlic, olive oil, fresh juice of one lemon and salt with spices (you can take white pepper). Done - before serving, you can decorate with crackers or nuts. By the way, if you like mayonnaise, then
salads with shrimp, lettuce and cucumber can be seasoned with them: either take its olive version, or mix natural yogurt with finely chopped herbs. By the way, in the salad you can put not quail eggs, but ordinary (2 pieces), as well as a tomato or bell pepper - you will also get a very tasty dish.
Shrimp, Cucumber and Tomato Salad
To prepare, take:
- half a kilogram of any shrimp cooked and cleaned from shells - you can take large, royal, and smaller species;
- 3 pcs. fresh cucumbers and tomatoes;
- a small bunch of fresh chives;
- for dressing - natural vinegar, vegetable oil, a little sugar and salt.
Prepare the ingredients for the salad: chop the cucumbers, tomatoes, shrimps the way you prefer. But usually vegetables are cut into circles, and shrimp in half, if large. Chop the onion finely. Now mix the vegetables in a separate bowl, season with vegetable oil and vinegar, salt. On a large dish in the middle, lay the shrimp (without dressing), and on the sides - a
salad of vegetables. It will turn out delicious and beautiful, such a treat can be put on the festive table.
Fresh shrimp, cucumber and apple salad
For a beautiful, colorful dish you will need:
- 450 g boiled shrimp;
- freshly squeezed juice from half a lemon;
- 2 handfuls of any salad greens;
- half a large fresh cucumber;
- 1 large green apple ;
- 5-6 radishes;
- for dressing, take half a glass of skimmed yogurt without additives, a teaspoon of freshly grated horseradish, a little spicy sauce like Tobasco, a little green onion and salt and pepper to taste.
Prepare the ingredients for the salad: shrimp, cucumber, apple and radish, cut into small pieces, and chop the greens finely. If you use lettuce leaves, you can just tear them with your hands. Mix the ingredients, pour lemon juice. For dressing in a blender, beat natural yogurt, spicy sauce, horseradish and spices. After pour the resulting sauce on the salad and mix. You will be pleasantly surprised by the delicate taste of the dish. Now you know how not only to cook salads with shrimp, lettuce and cucumber, but also its equally delicious varieties with apples and tomatoes.