Salad with shrimps and cucumbers - the best way to diversify your menu

A variety of products, which now lie on the shelves of each supermarket, make available for everyone a variety of delicious salads. For example, in order to make a salad home with shrimps and cucumbers, you only need 20 minutes. At the same time, a salad with shrimps and cucumbers looks very original when these ingredients do not mix. Salad is laid out on top of a cucumber circles of medium thickness.

But most of the housewives prefer to prepare a salad with shrimps and cucumbers in a more traditional way. There are several ways of making this really delicious dish.

What kind of shrimp is needed for salad

Of course, it is best to use fresh, one that has not been frozen or canned. You will need very little time to prepare it. Take a saucepan, pour cold water into it and put it on the fire. Salt water, the solution should not be steep. When it boils, throw the shrimp into it. After 5 minutes you can pull it out. If you do not serve the shrimp as an independent dish, but add it to a salad with shrimps and cucumbers, then do not add spices to the water. They change the taste of seafood.

When you purchase frozen shrimp, you have several options for choosing it. She may be:

• Freshly frozen;
• Frozen after boiling in sea water;
• In a carapace or without it.

When you need to cook a large amount of salads, for example, you have a birthday, it is better to buy shrimp without shell. You will save time on cleaning it. Do not take shrimp tinned with salads for salads.

Variety of salads with shrimp

This product is a component of a large number of snacks and salads. At the same time with it can use citrus, - salad with shrimps and grapefruit. To prepare this dish you will need:

• 300 gr. Peeled shrimp. It is better to take brindle, but if there is no possibility to buy them, then the usual ones will do.
• 2 small pink grapefruits and 2 white. Peel them from the peel, remove the film from the lobules and cut into small pieces.
• Literally 15 gr. Finely chopped dill.
• 2 avocados of medium size. Clean them, remove the stone and cut with thin plates.
• Rocket salad 50 gr. If you replace the usual, then there will be a kind of taste.
• Lime - 2 pcs. From one we squeeze out the juice, and the second one will be needed to decorate the dish.
• Avocado oil - 1 tbsp.

A large shrimp cut along the tail to several parts, small do not subject this procedure. Mix it with grapefruit, lime juice, dill. On plates put out the slices of avocado, on top of them the resulting mixture. Sprinkle with avocado oil and decorate with lettuce leaves, lime.

The next dish is also very popular, it is a salad with shrimps and croutons.

For its preparation you will need to buy the following products:

• 1 kg of large shrimp (royal or brindle).
• Approximately 10 large salad leaves.
• 200 gr. Cherry tomatoes.
• 100 gr. Hard cheese. It is better to take one that has a neutral taste.
• 3 pieces of boiled eggs.
• 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice, but it is better to use lime.
• 4 medium cloves of garlic.
• A glass of vegetable oil, better than olive oil.
• Crackers from white bread.
• Mustard to taste.
• Laurel.
• Pepper.
• Salt.

Pour half the volume of cooked oil into the pan. We knead half of garlic and throw it on the frying pan. After the oil boils, remove from heat. Let's mix a little bit. Again, put it on the fire and fry in it bread crumbs. Boil the shrimp. In the water, you can add peppercorns and a couple of leaves of the laurel. With boiled eggs, we take out the yolk and knead it with lemon juice, mustard and the remaining garlic. With a thin trickle, add the remaining vegetable oil to the resulting mixture. Shrimp is cleaned, and cheese is three on a grater with a shallow cell. Lettuce leaves are not cut, but rvem on small pieces of hands. We put them on plates. We cut "Cherry" into two parts and put dishes on each side. In the middle we spread the shrimp mixture and sprinkle it with dried crusts. We pour all this with a prepared dressing and sprinkle with grated cheese.