Those who want to lose weight or maintain their figure at the proper level can pamper themselves with a light salad based on pineapples and shrimps. In addition, this dish contains many useful elements and will satisfy your hunger.
Shrimp and pineapple salad
Such a salad can be prepared for the holidays or treated to yourself, your family on weekdays. Cook it quickly, so you can do it in the evenings after work. To do this, the following foods should be in the refrigerator in the following quantities:
- 1 medium sized pineapple;
- 200 g of small cherry tomatoes;
- 250 g of peeled shrimp;
- 3 feathers of green onions;
- 1 bunch of green salad;
- salt, black pepper.
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil.
Rinse the pineapple, cut off the top and peel. Now cut it in half and remove the middle hard part, and cut the flesh into squares.
Tear the lettuce leaves into small pieces with your hands. Chop the onion finely. Add tomatoes.
Boil the shrimps in boiling water for 2 minutes. When they are cool, put them in a dish too. The final accord is a spice and olive oil dressing.
Option with champignons
If you want to taste an original appetizer, why not add mushrooms to a salad with shrimp and pineapple? Here's what it takes to prepare this dish:
- 10 medium mushrooms;
1 cup canned pineapple, diced
- 250 g shrimp without shell;
- 1 glass of boiled rice;
- to taste - rosemary, salt, pepper;
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
If boiled rice is not available, put a glass of water on the fire in a saucepan, and when it boils, add 2/3 cup of well-washed rice. Close the lid tightly. Let the rice cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
While the rice is cooking, sauté the washed and chopped mushrooms and rosemary in oil for 10 minutes. Then fry the shrimps in the same pan.
Let the hot ingredients cool, then the pineapple and shrimp salad can be shaped. The first layer is rice, the next is pineapple with mushrooms, and the top is shrimp. This original salad is not smeared with mayonnaise, but is flavored with aromatic oil that remains after frying mushrooms and shrimps. They are poured over the appetizer.
Tenderness salad
For a festive table, you need a beautifully decorated dish. This recipe is perfect for such an occasion. In the store, you need to buy and measure the amount of the following products:
- 300 g frozen shrimp;
- 350 g of canned pineapple (rings);
- 3 boiled chicken eggs;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- 100 g of mayonnaise;
- 1 lemon;
- salt;
- to decorate with dill and 1 kiwi.
Cut the eggs into cubes. Boil the shrimps for 2-3 minutes in boiling water, cool and peel. Cut half and save half for decoration. To do this, leave one pineapple ring, and cut the rest into cubes and put them on a plate. This is the first layer of the salad. It, like all subsequent ones, coat with mayonnaise.
Next is a layer of eggs, then a layer of shrimp. The next one is made from grated cheese. Lemon juice is squeezed onto it. Place the pineapple ring in the middle of the salad. Garnish the sides of the dish with shrimp, kiwi and dill. Delicate pineapple and shrimp salad is ready.
