viernes, 12 de octubre de 2012

Prawn salad

Prawn salad. The queen of the salads, especially in summer, is definitely the potato salad that supports a lot of variants simply by changing some of its ingredients. So, so easy, we can be changing the main recipe and get other flavors such as the two-color potato salad or shrimp salad that we see today.

I like to prepare the prawn salad with few ingredients, but if you prefer you can add to the recipe a little surimi, boiled egg, tuna, corn, .... or whatever you like. And on the amounts you should be aware that the recipe makes four large plates of salad, so if you plan to serve the salad as a cover note to the recipe will yield about 8 or 10 caps. To the kitchen!!
Ingredients to make prawn salad (serves 4):

    
1 kilo of potatoes to cook (the best for this are the new potatoes)
    
1/2 kilo of cooked shrimp (if you do not find shrimp scampi also apply)
    
1 large carrot
    
4 tablespoons boat peas (if using fresh or frozen peas will be cooked)
    
1 jar of mayonnaise (about 350-400 grams)
    
salt
    
water to cook the potatoes and carrots
Recipe for prawn salad (for four people):

    
Clean under running water, potatoes and carrots. Put the water on to boil and add the potatoes (unpeeled), carrot (unpeeled) and a teaspoon with salt. Leave the fire until cooked through. Then from the heat and let the potatoes sit in water 20-30 minutes (do not ask me why but there are more good if you let them stand).
    
While the potatoes rest can take to prepare the mayonnaise if you use a bottled mayonnaise. In summer always advise using bottled mayonnaise but you can also use mayonaise recipe I posted in the blog.
    
If not cooked shrimps peeled takes to peel the shrimp and then cut into pieces.
    
Take the potatoes and carrots and let water drain well. Then remove the skin while retain some heat (and are easier to peel) but not burn yourself :)
    
Cut into very tiny pieces of carrot and potato. Put in a large bowl of potato, carrot, peas, chopped shrimp and half the mayonnaise (reserve shrimp, peas and carrots to decorate the salad). Mix with a spoon and salt test. If necessary add a little table salt (which is distributed much better than rock salt). Then pass the salad to a source.
    
Add above the rest of the mayonnaise so that it covers the whole surface (help yourself from a spoon to do this). Then garnish with peas, carrots and shrimp we have booked. Store in the refrigerator the source (well covered) and chill at least 1 hour. Off the kitchen and get lunch!
To eat:
When cuezas potatoes and carrots note that the carrot is cooked potatoes before, so you have to click once in a while to see if the carrot is cooked and remove.
If you hurry you can peel the potatoes and carrots and chop before starting to cook and be cooked before but the result is not the same as the potato absorbs much more water and is not as creamy as when cooked with their skin .
If the shrimp are very tiny add them whole if they are larger and cut into several pieces, but beware, cut, not sprints. If the stakes get much less flavor than when you find a piece of shrimp in the salad.
Indeed, although a typical recipe is very refreshing summer, do not forget that mayonnaise (or lactonesa) contains a large amount of oil and makes the result highly caloric recipe. Not a recommended dish to diets low in calories and if you eat it you should not overuse in quantities.
The homemade salad with these ingredients do not contain gluten so it's a recipe 100% suitable for coeliacs. All you have to watch is that you use mayonnaise is gluten free. If you prepare mayonnaise at home please note that neither the oil and the eggs have gluten and if you choose to make a homemade mayonnaise without eggs (lactonesa) make sure you use milk is regular milk (which also has no gluten).
Greetings cooks and chefs.
 

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