Shrimp Salad Recipe

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Shrimp Salad Recipe:

This simple and quick seafood salad is so flavorful you'll want to make it all the time. By combining just a few ingredients, shrimp, oranges, water chestnuts and cheese, this salad recipe builds on layers of rich flavors to produce a shrimp salad that's terrific anytime of the year.

With the simple ingredient exchanges and menu planner below you can create many delicious and quick meals from this single quick shrimp salad recipe.

2 servings

You will need 4 ingredients:
- Cooked Shrimp
- Navel Orange
- Water Chestnuts
- Goat Cheese

Make Ahead for this Salad:
- If you are cooking your own shrimp,
you will need to prepare 2 cups and
allow to cool

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Ingredients:

2 cups of cooked shrimp
(shells removed and cut into chunks)

1 large navel orange
(peeled and sectioned and cut into chunks)

1/2 cup water chestnuts
(cut each piece in half if desired)

3/4 cup goat cheese - crumbled
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Place all ingredients into a bowl and toss together to mix thoroughly.


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Quick Meals - Menu Planner:

Light Meal Ideas (suitable for lunch or a light dinner):

** Serve shrimp salad recipe over a bed of fresh spinach leaves with cheese or garlic bread sticks on the side.

** Serve this easy seafood salad scooped inside bibb leaf lettuce cups or radicchio leaf cups with carrot, cucumber and jicama sticks.

Main Meal Ideas:

** Another quick meal idea is to serve this simple shrimp salad scooped into an avocado half with a bowl of warm couscous flavored with basil and lemon zest on the side.

** You could also serve this quick salad recipe on top of a bed of mung bean sprouts and shredded red cabbage with roasted potatoes on the side.


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Try the ingredient exchanges listed below to create your own special seafood salad.

Ingredient Exchanges:

Instead of Oranges:
*Grapefruit - 1 fruit peeled and sectioned
(pink grapefruit with its sweet flavor blends well in this salad) or
*Kiwi - 2 - 3 medium sized peeled and cut into bite size pieces or
*Mango - 1 fruit peeled and cut into small chunks
(Mango is available frozen in bags and works just as well and is so much faster and easier)or
*Pineapple Chunks - 1 cup

Instead of Water Chestnuts:
*Leeks - 1/2 cup sliced finely with rings separated or
*Shredded Carrots - 1/2 cup or
*Red or Yellow Peppers - 1/2 diced or
*Fennel - 1/2 cup finely sliced

Instead of Goat Cheese:
*Feta Cheese - 3/4 cup crumbled or
*Sharp Cheddar - 3/4 cup cut into small cubes or
*Mozzarella - 3/4 cup cut into small cubes


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