Scientists have long noticed that seafood is verygood for the health. They contain saturated fats, proteins, microelements essential for the body and vitamins A, D, E, B12 and B6. In addition, seafood is digested much easier than meat protein (beef, pork and poultry). They recommend that there are women who follow their figure. If you want to preserve all the useful properties of seafood, then we advise you to prepare a salad. Shrimp, mussels, squid and crayfish are very popular in Mediterranean cuisine. Seafood is perfectly combined with vegetables, rice and fish. To fill salads with the above ingredients is best plant or olive oil, adding vinegar or lemon juice, salt and black pepper.

Unusual salad with shrimps and avocado

This simple and light salad with seafoodcan be done in five minutes. In doing so, it will not only be tasty, but also incredibly useful. It can also be cooked for lunch. Since the ingredients do not allow juice, you do not need to be afraid that the contents will pour out of the sack into the bag. Ingredients:

• Shrimp boiled, peeled - 500 g;
• Avocado - 1 piece;
• Fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
• 1 sprig of mint;
• 2 sprigs of thyme;
• 4 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 2 cloves garlic;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking method: Avocado cut in half and remove the stone. Pulp cut into thin strips. Cucumber as cut as avocado. Peel and chop the garlic (but do not press it). Finely chop the greens. It is better, of course, to use special scissors. Now you can start preparing the dressing for seafood salad. To do this, garlic and herbs should be placed in a small container, add oil, salt and pepper to taste. Mix all. In a salad bowl beautifully lay out shrimps, avocados and cucumbers. Pour in the dressing.

Elegant salad with mussels and corn

Similar salads with seafood can be preparedfor the holidays, when hungry guests must come to you. Served before the dinner in small salads. This is done to warm up, to induce and rouse the appetite, but do not overload the stomach. Ingredients:

• frozen mussels - 350 g;
• Canned corn and green peas 100 g each;
• 5-7 pcs. champignons;
• 1.5 tbsp. butter;
• 1 sweet red pepper;
• 6 sheets of red chicory and lettuce;
• 100 ml of olive oil;
• 2 cloves garlic;
• lemon juice;
• 2 tablespoons mayonnaise;
• salt and red pepper to taste.

Cooking: Cook the marinade. To do this, you need to peel and crush the garlic. In a blender, beat the resulting gruel, olive oil and juice squeezed from half a lemon. Add salt and pepper. All pour into a bowl. Boil water in a saucepan, add salt, put frozen mussels, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 2 minutes. Drain liquid, cool mussels, put in a bowl with marinade and leave for 2 hours. Peel lettuce on lettuce leaves and rinse with chicory. Place on a plate one sheet at a time. Peel the red pepper and cut into thin strips. Cut the champignons into slices. Heat the butter in a frying pan and fry 3-4 minutes with pepper and mushrooms. Corn and green peas mixed in a bowl with fried champignons, red pepper and mussels. Spread the plates over the salad leaves. Pour marinade and season with mayonnaise.

Warm salad with octopus and beans

Hot salad with seafood can be served inas a main course. It is nutritious, tasty, high-calorie. Therefore, your guests will not just leave you hungry. And its recipe is so simple and easy that even exotic salads can be prepared. Ingredients:

• 3 small octopus;
• 4 potatoes;
• 1 can of canned beans;
• 3 stems of celery;
• 200 g of artichokes preserved in olive oil;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons olive oil;
• 1 tsp balsamic vinegar;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking method: First you need to cook potatoes in a uniform, cut into small slices. Boil octopus 20-30 minutes. Pay attention: you need to boil without salt. Cut into large chunks and pickle with salt for 5 minutes with vinegar, butter, crushed garlic and. Thin slices to cut the celery, add to the potatoes, there to pour the warmed beans and cut in half artichokes. Pre-extract the garlic, then add octopus with marinade. All mix and put on a warmed dish.

"Spring cocktail": exotic combination of seafood

Despite the fact that a salad offrozen seafood, the taste of it remains exquisite. At the same time, in this dish, seemingly incompatible products are collected. Anyone who has thought of mixing with curd cottage cheese, sour cream and radish is a desperate experimenter. But, surprisingly, it's very tasty. So you can take the recipe for a note. Ingredients:

• 200 g of low-fat cottage cheese;
• Shallot;
• 200 g of spinach;
• 200 g of sour cream;
• 150 g of peeled frozen shrimps;
• 5 pieces of radish;
• 2 tsp. soy sauce;
• 4 sheets of lettuce;
• Lemon.

Directions: Peel the spinach, wash. Put into a sieve and lower for 1 minute in boiling water. Then put in a bowl of ice water. Cool the dried leaves and finely chop their hands. Shallot the shallots finely, mix with sour cream and cottage cheese. Shrimp defrosted, a few pieces put aside to decorate the dish, the rest should be added to the chopped spinach. Add soy sauce and mix. Wash the radish and lemon. Cut the lemon slices, and radish - thin slices. Put on a plate one sheet at a time, put a salad on top. Decorate with prawns, radish and lemon.

Salad "Vulcan" with shrimps and rice

Of course, the recipe of this dish can causesome perplexity, but it's worth a try. A substantial salad of seafood with rice is recommended to cook when you need to feed a lot of guests. On the one hand, you will amaze the audience with your culinary talents, and on the other - do not spend a lot of money. After all, only shrimps will be expensive in a dish, and the rest of the ingredients are in the refrigerator of almost every hostess. And, despite significant savings, the salad turns out to be quite tasty. So you can write a recipe in a culinary notebook. Ingredients:

• 150 grams of large boiled shrimp;
• 1 tbsp. boiled rice;
• 2-3 leaves of lettuce;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• 1 large salad tomato (pink);
• 1 ripe banana;
• a couple of lemon slices;
• 2 tbsp olive oil;
• ketchup;
• mayonnaise;
• salt pepper.

Cooking method: First, we clean and marinate shrimp in lemon juice and olive oil. Do not forget to pre-pepper them and add salt. Next, you need to cut the circles or cubes of a banana. Top with sprinkles. At the same time, cook rice to make it crumbly. On our site you can find recipes, which tell how it can be done. Preheat the plate, decorate with lettuce leaves, put on top the hot rice. We make a small hill or a pyramid. Pomeredinka make a small hole, which pour in ketchup and mayonnaise. Around the recess place the shrimp. Decorate the salad with finely chopped tomatoes, eggs. On the contour lay out the bananas.

Salad "Vitamin Cocktail"

The recipe for salad with seafood and vegetables is not thatcomplex and exotic, like the previous one. Therefore, even those who negatively or wary of the oriental cuisine can eat such dishes. Light and low-calorie - it can be eaten even by those who sit on the strictest diet. Ingredients:

• can of shrimps;
• 2 medium cucumber;
• 2 green apples;
• 70 g of carrots;
• 1 lemon;
• mayonnaise for refueling;
• salt.

Cooking method: Take the shrimp from the jar, lightly dry it. Leave a few pieces to decorate the salad. All the vegetables and fruits cut into cubes or straws - as you will be more convenient. In a small salad bowl, spread a layer of cucumbers, then grease all with mayonnaise. The same is done with carrots and shrimps. Before you put apples, sprinkle them with lemon juice. Thanks to this they will not change their color and will not darken. On top of the salad of seafood and vegetables is decorated with three drops of mayonnaise, shrimp and lemon slices. Note: mayonnaise is taken home, not shop, otherwise the taste is hammered. If there is no time and the desire to bother with cooking, do not know its recipe, you can just use the usual olive oil mixed with lemon juice.

Festive salad with salmon and red caviar

Let's be honest, these seafood saladsare not cheap. Therefore, they are called "Holiday". After all, the housewives undertake to prepare them, or when the birthday of someone's birthday, the New Year, the eighth of March, etc., or when they want to pamper their pets with something delicious. Therefore, be sure to write down to yourself such an unusual recipe to please your family. Ingredients:

• 200 g slightly salted salmon;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 potatoes;
• 2-3 eggs;
• mayonnaise for refueling;
• allspice.

Cooking method: So, the first thing to do is boil potatoes, eggs and carrots. Then all this goodness is on the grater. In the salad bowl we lay layers: fish, potatoes, eggs, carrots. After each ingredient, lubricate the surface with mayonnaise. From above, we decorate with red caviar. As you can see, this recipe is somewhat reminiscent of a salad "Herring under a fur coat", which we have been familiar with since childhood.

Sea Cocktail Salad

This recipe is interesting way of cooking. You do not have to cook, fry, pickle. It will be enough to cut the ingredients and put it right. At all about everything, you will take a maximum of 10 minutes. But this is enough to ensure that the rest of the evening guests admired you. Ingredients:

• 250 g of salmon;
• 1 green apple;
• 200 gr of shrimp;
• 5-6 cherry tomatoes;
• leaves of Peking cabbage;
• mayonnaise for refueling;
• salt, sweet pepper.

Cooking method: So, you need a bowl with high sides. Lubricate it with olive oil. The first layer is laid boiled shrimp (do not forget to pre-clean them from the peel). Next comes the onion, which is smeared with mayonnaise, cherry tomatoes, cut into rings. The same is done with apples, Peking cabbage. At the very top lay out pieces of salmon. Let's let the salad brew. We take a beautiful plate, apply it to a bowl and turn everything gently. Such festive recipes are convenient because you do not have to spread everything beautifully for individual salads. Plus, everyone who wants will take a salad with shrimp exactly as much as he can eat. Thus, you then do not need to throw out the half-eaten dish.

Rice salad with mussels, rapans and other seafood

Unlike other dishes, this salad withshrimps, mussels and rapans is done very long. It is recommended to practice a little on the eve, so that on the day you can prepare a real masterpiece. By the way, you can slightly modify the recipe by adding various seafood there. Do not be afraid to experiment! Perhaps your shrimp salad will play with new flavors. Ingredients:

• 250 g of mussels;
• 450 gr of shrimp;
• 350 g of rapans;
• 400 ml of fish broth;
• 260 grams of steamed rice;
• lemon;
• green onions;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• greens (basil, parsley);
• olive oil;
• pepper.

Cooking method: The main recipe for making salad is as follows. First of all, we clean garlic and rinse rice (it is recommended to drain 7 times water). We spread the frying pan reddishly, pour olive oil there, pour rice and garlic. After the contents are lightly fried, fill it all with broth prepared on the eve. Bring to a boil, then close the lid. Stew for 10-15 minutes. Before you remove the rice from the fire, you should try its readiness. If it turns out to be damp, hold for 2-3 minutes. At the same time in another pan fry seafood. We put them in a salad bowl, after having filtered through the oil. From the top comes hand-torn greens, finely chopped peppers. Then sprinkle all the lemon juice, carefully lay out the rice. Salad is mixed immediately before serving.

Chinese salad with seafood

Prepare a real Chinese salad withshrimp - it really is not easy. Please note: this recipe does not need to be changed, so do not try to use other ingredients. The only thing you can do is take sake or white wine (instead of rice). Ingredients for salad:

• 2 cucumbers;
• 2 carrots;
• 250 grams of sprouts of golden beans;
• 75 g of tiger shrimps:
• 1.5 tbsp. l. peanuts;

Ingredients for refueling:

• soy sauce;
• vinegar;
• Sesame oil;
• rice wine;
• salt.

Method of preparation: First of all, we prepare the basis. We cut the cucumbers into 4 equal parts, naturally, along. We remove the seeds. The remaining pulp and carrots are cut with ordinary straw. All mixed in a bowl. We shift vegetables and bean sprouts to a plate. If desired, you can decorate the contour of the remaining carrots. From above beautifully put already peeled shrimp. Fry peanuts and grind it. They sprinkle the salad. Separately we prepare a refueling, which will add spice to our exotic dish. Mix in a glass plate 50 g of this soy sauce with 2 tbsp acetic acid, 1.5 tbsp. l of sesame oil, ½ tbsp of rice wine. Add sugar, salt. Before serving, we water the salad. As you have already noticed, many recipes of such exotic dishes with prawns and seafood are adapted to our tastes. Agree, it is unlikely that the Chinese or Japanese would make salad layers with mayonnaise, apples, etc. And it is unlikely that we would be able to eat such food on a daily basis. However, occasionally you can pamper yourself and loved ones with such an unusual food with shrimps. So do not lose our recipes! We advise you to read:

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