For a beautiful, warm spring day like today I think we need a light and delicious Shrimp Salad served on a small slice of French bread. I’ve had my eye on this Shrimp Salad for quite some time now, and today is the perfect day for it. The most important thing about making it, is to make sure that you get as much liquid out of the shrimp and asparagus as possible and that is difficult to do with the fragile marinated asparagus without squashing them. I still ended up with a little too much liquid in mine but the salad was still wonderful and very fresh tasting. Perhaps next time I’ll try in addition to gently patting the asparagus dry, also letting them sit for awhile on some paper towels to try and absorb some more liquid. This is a really nice, refreshing Shrimp Salad with a hint of lemon. Enjoy!
Shrimp Salad With White Asparagus
Ingredients:
200 grams small shrimp (peeled, deveined and cooked)
16-18 thin white asparagus (marinated in water)
1 deciliter Hellmann’s mayo
1 tablespoon ketchup
a small sprinkle of fresh lemon juice
a pinch of ground chili powder
Directions:
If using frozen shrimp, defrost, drain and thoroughly pat dry the shrimp. Remove asparagus from marinade water, place on paper towel and gently pat dry. It is important to remove as much liquid from shrimp and asparagus as possible to avoid a wet shrimp salad. Cut asparagus into bite size pieces. In a small bowl add mayo, ketchup, lemon juice and chili powder, stir. Add shrimp and asparagus to mayo mixture and gently mix to combine. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. Serve with French bread. Enjoy!
Source: Dalsgaard i Skivholme
This sounds delicious! Is the asparagus canned or fresh? If fresh, do I cook it first?
I used canned white asparagus, if you use fresh asparagus you would have to peel and boil them first.
Nice to meet you (…over the internet ;-)). I moved to Denmark recently and now I’m trying to cook with Danish ingredients available, and I found your blog! So great. Thank you for wonderful recipes. I look forward to more of it 😀
I am so glad you are enjoying My Danish Kitchen JC 🙂
And don’t forget the butter on the bread…. 😉
En af mine ydlingsretter!
We get some wonderful fresh shrimp here, and this recipe sounds like the kind my mom used to make. I think it would be perfect, on a nice slice of fresh french bread.
I usually let the asparagus drain in a sieve and press them lightly with the back of my hand to get more water out. I do the same thing to the shrimps. Moderate physical pressure – works every time 😉 Your idea of using a paper towel afterwards is a good one.
Even a little wet, it was super delicious and I love the hint of lemon 🙂 Great recipe Karen.
Thanks 🙂
This sounds absolutely wonderful. 🙂 It’s hard to find shrimp here in Australia, but they LOVE prawns, so perhaps I can make it that way. 🙂
Same thing here, you really have to look for the small shrimp. In Denmark they have really delicious small shrimp and they are so much more popular.