Ingredients: – shrimp, tomatoes, radishes, scallions, cucumbers, pine nuts, cilantro, sweet red peppers. Dressing: – blood orange olive oil, grapefruit balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, caraway seeds, a little dried basil, pepper, black Hawaiian sea salt. If there is no time to mix a dressing, it is always best to use olive oil and nothing else. Horrible store-bought dressings can destroy any salad.
Looks amazing! I want to make it too, but without the peppers. What’s caraway seeds?
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Pine nuts and caraway seeds can destroy any salad, or, indeed, any dish at all. The rest of this sounds wonderful!
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This salad needs at least 2 sweet ingredients. Without the sweet peppers and the pine nuts it will bland and watery.
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But pine nuts taste like soap, at least to me. I love sweet peppers, of course.
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Needs more shrimp.
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You are right. I was stealing them from the salad for a while before taking the photo. 🙂
I have very perceptive readers.
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Looks very colourful. You could use sweetcorn instead of pine nuts, or pomegranate.
I agree with you about store bought salad dressing. Disgusting stuff and easily recognisable. I went to a restaurant once that tried to pass off ready made vinaigrette for fresh. When I objected the waiter went ‘to check with the chef’ and came back insisting it was not from a bottle. I said I simply didn’t believe him and we never went back.
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Pomegranate is a very interesting idea.
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