The Best Cold Shrimp Salad Recipe – Eat Simple Food
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This healthy cold shrimp salad with chives, red onions, celery, a wee bit of mayonnaise, and horseradish is one of my favorite light and crunchy recipes. Eat it with some greens, as is, or on toast.
Don’t like peeling and deveining shrimp? Buy them already done. Most grocery stores will also sell cooked shrimp which would work for this recipe. Whole foods will peel and devein them at no additional cost most of the time if you call ahead.
Shrimp can also be peeled and deveined after boiling if you don’t like to peel and devein raw.
These are fresh local shrimp from the Geechee Dock in Charleston SC. Shrimp season, summer, and salad recipes = happiness. Thank you beautiful shrimp and thank you local shrimpers.
Ingredients
1 lb shrimp, peeled & deveined
½ cup (2 stalks) celery, finely diced
2 Tbsp chives, finely sliced
3 Tbsp red onions, finely diced
½ cup mayonnaise
zest from one lemon
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp prepared minced horseradish
2 Tbsp parsley, finely chopped
salt
black pepper
Instructions
•Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add ½ tsp salt. Add shrimp and cook ~ 3-5 minutes or until done. Blanch shrimp in ice cold water to stop the cooking process. Drain and chop.
•Mix all ingredients, except shrimp, in a large bowl. Add chopped shrimp and stir. Add more mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. Toss in more horseradish if you like it spicier.
•Serve over lettuce or with crackers or toasted bread. Happy Eating! Beckie
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