A salad to serve with prawns?

Question

Tomorrow evening I'm serving a starter of spicy prawns - I want to do some sort of salad to go with it, nothing complicated but not just boring lettuce leaves. Any ideas?

what are ceps?

Answer 1

Cepes are porcini mushrooms. They are occasionally available fresh, but usually dried. If they're dried they have to be rehydrated by being soaked in a hot liquid, such as water or wine. Their flavor is intense and earthy. Really delicious.

With spicy prawns I'd serve a delicate salad of butter lettuce, scallions, avocado, and maybe tomatoes, in a vinaigrette.

Answer 2

Salad To Go With Prawns

Answer 3

King prawn brochette on a spicy sweet salad



Serves 2



Preparation time 1-2 hours

Cooking time less than 10 mins






Ingredients
20 raw king prawns, heads removed and shelled - butterfly them to
remove waste
wooden skewers (soaked to stop them burning when barbequed or griddled)
For the marinade:
1 red chilli
1 thumb-sized piece of ginger , peeled
1 garlic clove
a little lime juice
1 tsp vegetable oil
For the salad:
½ fresh pineapple, cut into 1cm/½in dice
110g/4oz mooli (daikon radish), cut into fine batons (julienne) 7.5cm/3in long
200g/7oz mangetout, cut on an angle finely
2 carrots, cut into fine batons (julienne) 7.5cm/3in long
1 red onion, finely sliced
1 heaped tbsp coriander, coarsely chopped
2 red chillies, finely diced
½ thumb-sized piece of ginger, finely diced
For the salad dressing:
110ml/4fl oz rice wine vinegar
2 limes, zest and juice
2 tbsp caster sugar



Method
1. In a pestle and mortar pound the marinade ingredients (the chilli, ginger, garlic, lime juice and oil) and add the prawns, allowing them to marinate for 1 hour.
2. Once the prawns have marinated, skewer them on to the wooden skewers - about four per skewer depending on the size of the prawns.
3. On a hot griddle pan place the prawn skewers and cook for a couple of minutes on each side (the prawns will turn pink).
4. Meanwhile prepare the salad ingredients and mix the dressing in well - almost bruising the vegetables.
5. Serve the salad in the middle of a plate and place two skewers on top and eat immediately.

Answer 4

Sliced roasted ceps, spinach leaves and a mild mustard dressing.

Ceps are a woodland fungus similar to a mushroom but much more delicate. They are in season for another couple of weeks, and can be got from all good grocers. I have this dish on my current menu although I use fresh langoustine tails , but your spicy prawns will complement the other ingredients well.

Answer 5

Throw some papaya chunks (skin removed) into a blender. Puree with some light-flavored cooking oil (corn, canola, rapeseed) and a splash of white balsamic vinegar - blend until creamy. Serve as a dressing over simple greens, garish with diced roma tomatoes and fresh-ground pepper.

Simple, and the sweet will offset the spicy.

Answer 6

I like this one... watermelon, king prawns, red onion (thinly sliced), coriander leaves, chopped toasted hazlenuts.
Dressing...(clove of garlic (peeled & crushed), 1 large chopped chilli, 1 tsp grated ginger, 3 tbsp fish sauce, lime juice and 2 tbsp demerara sugar). Yum.

or you could try prawns with avacado, mango, ice berg lettuce leaves, some watercress. and maybe some pecan nuts. Then just add 2 tbsn lemon juice/cider vinegar, oil and season.
Hope this helps

Answer 7

Spicy prawns?

In that case keep in simple darling as in boring lettuce. That's how food works

Answer 8

A watercress salad would go nicely with your prawns.

Answer 9

YES! Mediterranean salad:

Cherry tomatoes
cubes of goat cheese
Some lettage
a little Corn just to add color
and drizzle some olive oil and oregons....hmmmmm

Answer 10

creek salad,,, cut toms in to 4 take skin off cucumber and cut in big chunks shread iceburg lettuce goat cheese anything else u want to put in , mix in a large bowl, pour on lots of olive oi,,, trust me u cant taste it,,,, its lovely honest