Thursday, January 3, 2013

Prawn Salad In Pomegranate Salad Dressing

Prawn cocktail is a classic appetizer dish and this one I’m doing is a salad version, which uses prawns, mayonnaise and pomegranate juice makes this dish one of the best prawn salad to kick off a holiday season celebration. I confess and the truth is, this is my first time tasting it. And it taste so good and I like it a lot.
Ingredients:
500g prawn, sliced
1 head romaine lettuce, sliced or torn into pieces
1 earthbound organic carrot , sliced thinly
12 orange cherry tomatoes, cut into halves or serve whole one
1 small red onion, sliced thinly
1 ripe avocado, peeled, cored and sliced
pomegranate seeds
For  Pomegranate Salad Dressing:
200g mayonnaise (light)
1 tbsp extra strong french dijon mustard sauce
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp finely chopped red onion
4 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 tbsp worcesrshire sauce
1 tsp tabasco sauce
4 tbsp freshly squeeze pomegranate juice
salt and ground pepper to taste
Preparation:
1. Rinse the shrimp then steam for about 10 minutes over boiling water. Once cooked remove them from hot boiling water and cool for a few minutes. Once it cool, remove the heads, peel the prawn and set aside. You can devein the prawn if desired.
2. To make the pomegranate salad dressing, combine the mayonaise,  worcestershire sauce, dijon mustard, honey, onion, ketchup, tabasco except pomegranate juice in a mixing bowl and whisk together well. Adding a good amount of salt and pepper to your liking, then whisk.
3. Add the pomegranate juice.
4. And whisk, make sure that this thoroughly blended well.
5. I like to put and make a bed of spoonful salad dressing into the base of salad bowl. Divide the lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, carrot, onion and prawn.
6. Then sprinkle the pomegranate seeds and spoon over pomegranate salad dressings. Garnished some parsley leaves and serve.