Shrimp Salads: Simple And Tasty, Step-by-step Recipes With Photos And Videos, Including Squid

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

Shrimp salads: 6 delicious recipes for every budget

Shrimps are a versatile product, they are equally good on a festive table and at a quiet family dinner. In addition, small crustaceans differ not only in their interesting taste, but also in usefulness, and are also combined with many products, which allows them to be used in the preparation of a variety of salads.

Content

• 1 Thai salad with pineapple
• 2 Shrimp and avocado ceviche
• 3 Egg and cheese salad
• 4 Royal salad with shrimps and squid
• 5 Budget salad with shrimps and crab sticks
• 6 Video: shrimp with mushrooms and cheese

Thai salad with pineapple

Would you like something exotic with sweet notes of pineapple, luscious greens and spicy Tabasco? Thai salad is exactly what you need.

You will need:

• 200 g shrimp;
• 200 g turkey fillet;
• 100 g canned pineapple;
• 0.5 onions;
• 0.5 lemon;
• fresh lettuce leaves;
• Tabasco sauce to taste;
• 1 tsp soy sauce;
• 1 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 0.5 tsp Sahara;
• salt.

Cooking.

1. Peel and boil the shrimps.

   

   Shrimp can be peeled before and after boiling

2. Cook the turkey fillet in salted water, cool and disassemble into fibers.

   

   Fillets are easily fiberized with a fork

3. Cut the pineapple into small slices.

   

   Tropical fruit will make the salad taste spicy

4. Cut the onion into half rings.

   

   Rings and half rings look beautiful in a ready-made salad

5. Whisk olive oil with lemon juice, add Tabasco, soy sauce, sugar, salt, onion.

   

   Use a mixer to achieve uniformity

6. Send the shrimps to a well-heated frying pan with a spoonful of oil, fry for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.

   

   Boiled shrimps are fried for no more than 3 minutes for greater juiciness and aroma, raw - 10-12 minutes

7. Combine with the rest of the ingredients, place on the lettuce and pour over the dressing.

   

   You can go to the table!

Shrimp and avocado ceviche

Typically, a spicy Peruvian appetizer is prepared from raw fish and seafood that has barely touched boiling water. But, in order to avoid poisoning, we will break this tradition and still boil the shrimp. Believe me, this won't make the dish worse.

You will need:

• 300 g shrimp;
• 0.5 red onion;
• 1 lime;
• 1 lemon or orange;
• 1 chili pepper;
• 1 avocado;
• 1-2 branches of cilantro;
• 2 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• salt.

Cooking.

1. Peel the shrimp, dip in boiling water and boil until pink.

   

   Shrimp will be ready in a couple of minutes

2. Squeeze the juice out of the fruit.

   

   Citrus juice will add new flavor to the shrimp

3. Peel the onion and chop finely.

   

   Red onions are recommended for ceviche

4. Chop up the chili peppers.

   

   If you don't want extra pungency, reduce the amount of chili and remove the seeds

5. Pick up cilantro with your hands.

   

   Smelling weed in the salad is the place

6. Combine juice, salt, chili, onion and herbs, pour the resulting marinade over the shrimp and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes. Serve with avocado slices.

   

   Peruvian appetizer ready

Egg and cheese salad

If by chance there was no chili or limes at home, you can get by with much less exotic products and at the same time not lose your face. The salad will turn out to be both tasty and satisfying.

You will need:

• 100 g shrimp;
• 2 eggs;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• 1–2 tsp lemon juice;
• mayonnaise;
• salt.

Cooking.

1. Peel the shrimps, boil and - if desired - cut into pieces.

   

   If you decide to chop the shrimp, leave 2-3 pieces whole for salad dressing

2. Boil, peel and chop the eggs.

   

   Eggs will make the salad more satisfying.

3. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

   

   Do not use cheeses with too pronounced taste and smell - they will "clog" the shrimp

4. Combine mayonnaise with lemon juice to spice up the salad and enrich the shrimp flavor.

   

   If you take the time to make homemade mayonnaise with lemon juice, it will be even tastier and healthier.

5. Combine shrimp, eggs and cheese, salt, fill with dressing.

   

   You can serve the dish in lettuce leaves - it will turn out original, and if you add a cucumber, the salad will become fresher and lighter

Tsar's salad with shrimps and squid

Caviar and squid rarely appear on the table of the average Russian, so such a salad is usually prepared for important dates. But it never stays on the plates either.

You will need:

• 200 g shrimp;
• 200 g squid;
• 10–20 g of red caviar;
• 150 g potatoes;
• 2 eggs;
• 70 g of cheese;
• 150 g mayonnaise;
• salt.

Cooking.

1. Put the shrimps in salted boiling water for 3-5 minutes, and then catch them with a slotted spoon, cool and peel.

   

   Toss the shrimp into already boiling water

2. Boil the squids in boiling, also slightly salted water for 2-3 minutes, let them cool down, free them from the films and cut into narrow strips.

   

   A thin film must be removed from squid

3. Boil the potatoes and cut the flesh into cubes.

   

   Some advise not to boil, but to bake potatoes

4. Chop the boiled eggs.

   

   If you want to make the salad more tender, use a grater

5. Grate the cheese.

   

   It is better to choose the side of the grater with the smallest cells.

6. Spread the ingredients in a salad bowl in layers, smearing each with a little mayonnaise: potatoes, squid, eggs, shrimp, cheese and, finally, caviar - as a kind of "cherry on the cake".

   

   Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes, and it will taste better

Budget salad with shrimps and crab sticks

Red caviar does not fit into your budget at the moment, but would you like to cook a salad on the "sea" theme? Crab sticks, which are affordable at a reasonable price, will help, which will make a completely acceptable duet with shrimps, juicy cabbage, bright corn and sweet pineapple.

You will need:

• 300 g shrimp;
• 100 gram pack of crab sticks;
• 150 g cabbage;
• 10-12 Art. l. canned corn;
• 5-6 canned pineapple slices;
• 120 g of cheese;
• 12 Art. l. mayonnaise.

Cooking.

1. Peel and boil the shrimps in salted water.

   

   To simplify the process, you can use a special device or scissors

2. Chop the cabbage, remember with your hands, so that it gives juice and becomes softer, and salt. You can also use white cabbage, but if you want to make the salad more exquisite, take the Peking one.

   

   Peking cabbage in such a salad looks especially elegant

3. Cut the pineapple into cubes.

   

   Like shrimp, pineapple goes well with many foods.

4. Chop the crab sticks at random.

   

   Ideally, the chunks should be slightly larger than the corn kernels, but this is not a requirement.

5. Grate the cheese.

   

   It is important that the cheese is not too salty

6. Combine cabbage, corn, pineapple, crab sticks, shrimp and cheese, season with mayonnaise, put in bowls or glasses and serve.

   

   Salad looks especially interesting in portioned bowls

What do you do with shrimp shells? I threw it away until I read about a dish called bisque on one of the forums. True, before making a real soup-sauce from the shrimp waste left after the feast, I had not yet matured, but I used the broth obtained from them a couple of times as a basis for fish soup. In my opinion, the taste turned out to be very rich and "sea".

Video: shrimp with mushrooms and cheese

Fans of shrimp are in luck: their favorite product is not picky in terms of the compatibility of tastes and easily coexists in salads with both delicious caviar and simple potatoes. It doesn't matter if you are going to have a light snack, thoroughly satisfy your hunger or surprise guests with a festive dish - there will definitely be a suitable recipe. Buy in addition missing products and start cooking.