Mediterranean Rice Salad With Shrimp
"Light and refreshing. Needs nothing more."
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups arborio rice or 1 1/4 cups long-grain white rice
- 1⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 3⁄4 lb shrimp, shelled and deveined
- 4 -5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 4 ripe tomatoes, seeded and diced
- 1 large fennel bulb, halved,cored and cut into ¼ inch dice
- 4 scallions, thinly sliced
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh dill
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
directions
- In a large saucepan, bring 10 cups of water to a boil.
- Stir in 1 tblsp salt.
- Add the rice and cook uncovered over medium heat until al dente, about 15 minutes.
- Drain in a colander, rinse with cold water and drain again.
- Place the rice in a large serving bowl.
- Bring a saucepan of salted water to a boil and stir in 1 tblsp of the lemon juice.
- Add the shrimp and cook until opaque, about 1 ½ minutes.
- Drain the shrimp.
- Transfer to a work surface and chop into small pieces.
- Toss the rice with ¼ cup of th e oil and the remaining 3 tblsps lemon juice.
- Add the shrimp, tomatoes, fennel, scallions, dill and garlic; toss.
- Add up to 1 tblsp more of oil.
- Season with salt and crushed red pepper.
- Let stand for at least 20 minutes before serving.
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Reviews
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This is a great summer salad. We ate it as part of a seasonal buffet, with a corn on the cob and a couple other salads on the side. I didn't find I needed to use quite as much oil as the recipe calls for and also added a healthy dose of freshly ground black pepper.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
