They just slip between the cracks between the big nuts and there’s no way to prevent this from happening. Tossed shrimp salads act the same way. When you toss a shrimp salad with lots of garnishes, like diced veggies, beans, dried cranberries and, ironically, nuts, those small garnishes all find their way to the bottom of the bowl. That lettuce leave will all be on the top and it makes your shrimp salad hard to enjoy.
What to do though? Well, the solution isn’t in the bowl, its in your tossing technique, your shrimp salad tossing technique, that is. First throw your lettuce mix into a big bowl and sprinkle your add-ins on top. Next, pour your dressing around the bowl, not on top of the salad. If you pour the dressing onto the lettuce leaves it becomes difficult to distribute evenly through the salad.
Just pour it onto the interior of the bowl, around the shrimp salad. Now, using your hands, gloves are good, gently toss the shrimp salad through the dressing. Make sure everything is evenly coated with dressing, but don’t over toss the shrimp salad and bruise the leaves. No one likes a soggy shrimp salad with wilted leaves.
Now get your serving bowls ready. Looking at the shrimp salad, you’ll see that the lettuce is on top and all of your goodies are hidden underneath. No problem-o though. Simply pick up the dressed lettuce greens and evenly distribute them into the awaiting bowls. Now that you’ve uncovered all of the goodies hiding under the leaves, pick them up and evenly distribute them among the bowls as well.
Now all of the good stuff is on top and the lettuce is on the bottom, as you requested.
Men! Do you think the kitchen is a female occupation? But once a year, you can sacrifice principles. Even if you do not distinguish dill from parsley, and the oven is worse for you than a fire-breathing dragon, try your hand at the kitchen!
And it does not matter if you never cooked anything harder than fried eggs. What you have prepared yourself, she will be delighted more than the most exquisite and expensive delicacy. Delicate and bright in composition, the shrimp salad recipe will decorate your holiday table or a romantic dinner.
Ingredients
- Shrimps - 0.5 kg
- Bay leaf - 2 pieces
- Allspice - 5 pieces
- Salt
- Potatoes - 2
- Carrots - 1 pc
- Avocado - 1 pc
- Egg - 2
- Gelatin - 2 tsp
- Water - 0.5 stack
- Mayonnaise
- Lemon
- Lettuce
How to make Shrimp Salad
- Boil shrimps for 3 minutes (from the moment of boiling) in salted water with the addition of bay leaf, allspice and seasoning for fish. Leave two pieces for decoration. Cool and clean the rest.
- Boil eggs, carrots and potatoes. Over gelatin pour cold water and leave to swell. Next, dissolve it in a water bath. Stir well to avoid lumps. Cool to room temperature. Combine sour cream and mayonnaise in equal quantities, add gelatin. Now you need to choose the form in which you will lay all the components of the salad in layers. Cover the form with a food film so that the ends of the film stick out. This is so that later it is convenient to take out the salad on a plate.
- Lay the Shrimp salad with tomatoes on the bottom of the mold, grease with mayonnaise. This will be the first layer. Lay the shrimp back to the side of the container. The second layer is boiled eggs. Peel, divide into whites and yolks, rub through a grater or crumble dice. Place on top of the shrimp, salt and grease with mayonnaise. The third layer is avocado. Cut in half, cut the pulp into cubes. Sprinkle with lemon juice and smear with mayonnaise.
- The fourth layer is boiled carrots. Cut into cubes and smear with mayonnaise. Do not forget to salt. The fifth layer is boiled potatoes. Either grate, or cut into small cubes. Cut carrots and avocados into small cubes. Do not overdo it with potatoes, it should be less than carrots. Salt potatoes and grease with mayonnaise.
- Put the form with the salad in the fridge for 10-15 minutes to harden and soak. Next, on a large plate, turn over our shape and carefully, holding onto the edges of the film, remove it. Remove the film from the salad. Decorate the top with a slice of lemon, shrimps and lettuce. Salad is ready to eat. If this salad is for a romantic dinner for two, then add hearts with shrimps.
