Taking the classic recipe for American Caesar salad as a basis, today we will prepare its marine variation - with shrimp. Well, since we’ve taken this liberty, let’s take another one – add tomatoes. For the rest, we will try to adhere to traditions as much as possible. I previously wrote in a recipe for Caesar salad with chicken about what a real authentic recipe should be. Take a look, it might be interesting and useful. In the meantime, let's return to our sheep and shrimp.
Caesar salad with shrimp - classic recipe
Ingredients:
- lettuce leaves – 10 pcs.;
- shrimp – 150 gr.;
- parmesan – 70 gr.;
- eggs – 2-3 pcs.;
- bread – 2-3 pieces;
- garlic clove;
- Worcestershire sauce – 2 tsp;
- lemon – 1/2 pcs.;
- olive oil – 80 ml;
- Cherry tomatoes.
Preparation:
- Wash the lettuce leaves and dry them on a towel.
- Cut white bread without crust into cubes. Fry them in a dry frying pan and add a few drops of garlic oil.
- Shrimp need to be thawed and peeled.
- To prepare the sauce, eggs need to be placed in boiling water for a few seconds.
- Peel and place in a bowl. Add the juice of half a lemon, olive oil and Worcestershire sauce.
- Chop the garlic clove with a knife and add to the rest of the ingredients. Beat the sauce with a blender. You can add dried herbs.
- Tear lettuce leaves into a salad bowl, add croutons and shrimp.
- Pour over the prepared sauce and garnish with cherry tomato halves.
- Sprinkle with parmesan shavings and serve.
Worcestershire sauce can be purchased at the store.
How to fry shrimp in a frying pan
Frozen and fresh crustaceans are available for sale. When choosing, discard damaged ones, with dots and spots. Having too much ice is also undesirable.
Shrimp can be fried in any form. Cooking in the shell has big advantages: cooking is much faster and less troublesome, and the eaters themselves do the cleaning. The crustaceans come out juicier, since the shell will not allow their own juice to evaporate.
- If there is not much ice on the crustaceans, cook them without defrosting.
- Shrimp with a large supply of ice are first thawed and excess liquid removed. Otherwise, the shrimp will be cooked and will remain without a golden brown crust.
- Fry in a hot frying pan, and not, as is usually customary, in a hot pan.
- Ideally, it is better to use butter and olive oil, they will not splatter when they combine with the moisture from the shrimp. In addition, they do not have a distinct odor. But vegetable oils won’t spoil the dish either, just take ones without flavors.
How to defrost seafood
The best option is to keep it on a shelf in the refrigerator. To quickly defrost, dip them in boiling water for a few seconds, or simply scald them.
Caesar salad with shrimp and salmon
- Lettuce 200
- Salmon 100
- Shrimp 200
- Cherry tomatoes 50
- Quail eggs 2
- Bread 120
- Olive oil 20
- Parmesan 60
For the sauce:
- Yogurt 150
- Garlic 10
- Ready mustard
Cooking method
Wash the salad, let it dry a little, place it on a paper towel and leave for 5 minutes. Then we tear the leaves into pieces and place them on beautiful serving plates.
- Cut the salmon into cubes and place on top of the leaves. Boil the shrimp in lightly salted water, drain in a colander and after 5 minutes add to the rest of the ingredients. Since the tomatoes are small, cut them in half and add to the salad.
- Boil the quail eggs, cut them in half and put them in the salad.
- Cut the bread into cubes and fry in olive oil until golden brown (here, too, there was an innovation for me - I always used store-bought crackers, but, of course, they cannot compare with homemade ones and this makes the taste of the salad different, more noble or something).
And this is the sauce:
- Pour the yogurt into the blender bowl, add chopped garlic and mustard, chop everything.
- Pour the sauce over the salad, place croutons on top and sprinkle with grated Parmesan.
- Serve the salad and enjoy the result!
Caesar salad with shrimp just like in a restaurant
Ingredients
- Romano salad - 150 gr.
- Fresh shrimp - 100 gr.
- Quail egg - 4 - 5 pcs.
- Cherry tomatoes - 100 gr.
- Parmesan cheese - 20 gr.
- Crackers - 15 gr.
- For the sauce: -
- Olive oil - 170 gr.
- Dijon mustard - 8 gr.
- Soy sauce - 25 gr.
- Garlic - 2 teeth.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Salt - to taste
Cooking process
For the salad, you can use ready-made croutons or dry them yourself in the oven or in a frying pan.
Boil the defrosted shrimp in water with added salt, drain them, squeeze a little lemon juice onto the shrimp and leave them to marinate.
- Mix olive oil, mustard, soy sauce, a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, chopped garlic, salt and pepper. This mixture will serve as a dressing.
- Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them and tear them into large pieces with your hands and place them in a bowl.
- Boil quail eggs hard, cool, remove the shell and cut in half. Wash the cherry tomatoes and also cut them into two halves. Add eggs and tomatoes to the salad.
- Grate the Parmesan cheese into a fine grater and add it to the salad.
Quickly fry the shrimp in a frying pan and add to the salad, pour the sauce over the ingredients, stir and sprinkle with croutons.
How to fry shrimp in a frying pan - 6 delicious frying recipes
Shrimp is a tasty and healthy delicacy that has received nationwide recognition both in restaurants and in home cooking. Enjoying a delicious meal is quite easy. The main thing is to know how to properly fry shrimp in a frying pan and apply the subtleties of crustacean cooking technology.
A wonderful snack for beer, an ingredient for a salad, a separate dish, and something that you will lick your fingers and ask for more. Most of us know the simplest recipe, when shrimp are simply sprinkled with lemon and quickly fried. But try to add some zest by frying sea crustaceans with various seasonings, marinating them in soy sauce, adding honey and garlic.
Caesar salad with shrimp and red fish
Ingredients
- Olive oil - 100 ml.
- Leaf lettuce - 0.5 bunch
- Salmon (can be replaced with trout, sturgeon, beluga) - 200 gr. lightly salted
- Fresh shrimp - 200 gr.
- White bread - 200 gr.
- Cherry tomatoes - 6 pcs.
- Egg - 2 pcs.
- Parmesan cheese - 50 gr.
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Table vinegar 9% - 1 tsp.
- Mustard - 2 tsp.
- Garlic - 2 teeth.
- Salt - to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
Cooking process
Cut the crust off the white bread and cut the flesh into cubes. Peel the garlic cloves and chop them. Pour a small amount of sunflower oil into a heated frying pan and fry the garlic in it for 2-3 minutes. Carefully spoon the garlic out of the pan and add the bread cubes there, fry them until golden brown. Transfer the finished crackers to a plate and cool.
- Boil the eggs hard, cool, remove the shell, separate the yolks from the whites. Mash the yolks with a fork and mix with mustard, add vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil to this mixture, mix everything thoroughly, you can use a mixer for these purposes. This will serve as a salad dressing.
- Place the shrimp in boiling water and cook for 2-3 minutes. Remove them from the water and cool.
- Soak the lettuce leaves in cold water, this will keep them crispy longer. After this, dry it with paper towels. Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands, place it on a flat dish, and pour the sauce over it.
Delicious shrimp fried in butter
- Unpeeled frozen shrimp - kilogram.
- Butter – 150 gr.
- Lemon juice – 2 tablespoons.
- Garlic – 5 cloves.
- Red and black pepper - a pinch each, salt.
- Place the seafood in a dry frying pan and cover with a lid. After liquid appears, remove the lid and wait until it evaporates.
- Grind the garlic into a paste. Add to crustaceans. Add some salt.
- Add oil and pepper. Continue frying until the shell darkens. Cooking time 5-7 minutes.
Caesar salad with shrimp and squid
“Caesar” with marinated shrimp and squid can be created in a matter of minutes, especially if you prepare the dressing in advance and make garlic croutons. Capers are added to the dressing, instead of which you can use pickled gherkins, mushrooms, olives or salted anchovy fillets.
Ingredients:
- marinated shrimp and squid – 150 g each;
- lettuce leaves;
- crackers – 250 g;
- parmesan – 100 g;
- Dijon mustard – 1 tbsp. spoon;
- oil – 4 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Worcestershire sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- capers – 1 teaspoon;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
- Lettuce leaves are torn by hand.
- Seafood is laid out on top.
- Mix oil, mustard, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, capers, salt and pepper, whisk, and pour the sauce over the salad.
- Sprinkle the snack with cheese.
How long to fry shrimp
The seafood delicacy is prepared incredibly quickly, in a matter of minutes. Be careful not to overcook them in the pan, as the shrimp will become tough and unsuitable for eating. Frying time depends on the size of the seafood.
- Small, ordinary crustaceans are fried in 3-4 minutes.
- Large ones - 5-7 minutes.
- Boiled-frozen and pre-thawed ones take a little longer to fry, since the water must first evaporate before the frying process.
- Royal and tiger require longer frying - up to 10 minutes.
The product is considered ready if it loses its transparency and appears ruddy.
How to clean seafood
There are usually no problems with cleaning seafood. But you will have to master some technique.
- Defrost the crustaceans.
- Tear off the legs and head. Here is a nuance: grab the crustacean by the legs, fold them into a bun and pull. The head is also easily separated from the carcass.
- Open the shell and remove the carcass.
- Cut it lengthwise with a knife and pull out the intestinal vein.
Caesar salad with shrimp and avocado
Shrimp Caesar salad takes on new flavor notes with the addition of avocado pulp and crispy slices of fresh or smoked bacon. To make the dressing, beat natural yogurt with the addition of anchovy fillet, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice. If desired, the composition is supplemented with boiled eggs.
Ingredients:
- shrimp – 0.5 kg;
- romaine lettuce – 1 piece;
- crackers – 250 g;
- parmesan – 70 g;
- avocado – 1 pc.;
- bacon - 4 slices;
- yogurt – 100 ml;
- olive oil and lemon juice - 2 teaspoons each;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- anchovy fillet – 2 pcs.;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
- The shrimp are marinated with garlic, adding 1 clove, as well as salt, pepper and a teaspoon of lemon juice.
- Fry shrimp and thinly sliced bacon separately.
- Cut the avocado pulp and lettuce leaves.
- Whisk the ingredients for the dressing.
- Place all the ingredients on a dish and pour over the sauce.
- Sprinkle Caesar with avocado and shrimp with grated cheese.
Caesar salad with shrimp and quail eggs
- Romaine salad 250 g
- Peeled king prawns 350 g
- Cherry tomatoes12 pieces
- White crackers40 g
- Quail egg10 pieces
- Caesar sauce80 ml
- Grated Parmesan cheese 60 g
- Pine nuts20 g
- Butter 20 g
How to cook step by step
Wash the lettuce leaves under cold water. Tear and place on the bottom of the plate.
- Pour Caesar dressing over the leaves and stir.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half and place on lettuce leaves.
- Boil the quail eggs, cool, and place around the edges of the plate.
- Pour shrimp into boiling salted water (without defrosting) and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Place a piece of butter (about 20 g) in a hot frying pan and add shrimp. Fry on both sides for 2-3 minutes.
- Place the prepared shrimp on top of the cherry tomatoes and pour over the Caesar dressing.
- Top with white bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese and pine nuts.
Caesar salad with shrimp and chicken
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet – 200 g
- White bread or loaf - 4 pieces
- Romaine lettuce - 1 bunch
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Mustard - 1 tsp.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Cherry tomatoes - 8 pcs.
- Boiled quail eggs - 5 pcs.
- Shrimp – 300 g
- Honey - 1 tsp. (for sauce)
- Olive oil
- Spices to taste
- Parmesan cheese
Step-by-step cooking recipe
It takes about 10 minutes to prepare the ingredients. Boil the quail eggs. Wash and clean the ingredients. Cut the salad into thick strips and place in a deep bowl.
- Cut the loaf into squares. Add olive oil, chopped garlic and spices to taste to a preheated frying pan and start frying the loaf until golden brown. Stir constantly so that the crackers do not burn.
- Prepare the sauce. Place 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 teaspoon honey, squeeze 1 clove of garlic into a bowl, add two eggs and squeeze the lemon.
- Beat everything until smooth and slowly pour in 1 tsp. olive oil and beat well again. The sauce is ready.
- Cut the chicken fillet into thin pieces and brush with spices. Fry in olive oil with garlic until golden brown.
- While our fillet is frying, prepare the shrimp. Add shrimp to boiling water and cook until boiling, cool and start cleaning the shrimp.
Add fried chicken fillet, shrimp, cherry tomatoes, cut in half, and quail eggs (also cut in half) into a bowl with chopped salad. Mix everything and add sauce. Add the crackers just before serving to prevent them from getting soft.
