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by Chef Jerry Gruber
Summary: Lively shrimp mango salad with homemade vinaigrette dressing
Cooking time (duration): 20 minutes
Number of servings (yield): 3
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Ingredients
- 1 bag herb salad mix
- 1/2 bag arugula
- 1/2 pound shrimp boiled in herbs and bay leaves
- 4 small tomatoes
- 1/3 English cucumber
- 1 fresh mango
- 1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
- 1 fresh avocado
- 5 leaves of fresh basil
Instructions
- Place herb salad mix in large salad bowl.
- Add arugula and toss together
- Cut tomatoes into wedges
- Place cut tomatoes around edges of salad mixture.
- Peel cucumber and cut into thin slices
- Add sliced cucumber to salad arranged in nice pattern.
- Cut mango around seed in middle, and then cut scores in mango pieces to ease removal of fruit. Dice mango into small pieces, making sure skin is removed.
- Add diced mango to salad.
- Sprinkle pine nuts in salad.
- Cut avocado down middle, remove seed, and cut into quarters. Score avocado and peel off skin.
- Add sliced avocado to salad.
- Add shrimp to salad
- Take stem off basil, roll in ball, and chop into small pieces.
- Sprinkle basil on top of salad.
Homemade vinaigrette dressing:
- 1-cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 4 ozs. Organic raspberry fruit sauce
- 1 oz. Sesame oil
- Pinch Renee’s rub or similar seasoning
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 cup Sherry wine
- 1-tablespoon pomegranate concentrate
- Pinch kosher salt
- Pinch pepper
- 10 fresh raspberries
Homemade vinaigrette dressing:
- Combine olive oil and balsamic vinegar to medium mixing bowl.
- Add Dijon mustard to other ingredients in bowl.
- Add raspberry fruit sauce and sesame oil.
- Sprinkle Renee’s rub over other ingredients in bowl.
- Whisk all ingredients together thoroughly.
- Peel and chop garlic into small pieces.
- Mix garlic into bowl with other ingredients.
- Add Sherry to thin dressing.
- Add pomegranate concentrate to bowl.
- Add more Sherry wine if dressing is too thick.
- Add salt and pepper to dressing.
- Add raspberries to bowl.
- Using whisk, mix all ingredients together.
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