Beijing cabbage and shrimp salad is a storehouse of vitamins and minerals that are good for the body. Peking cabbage, or, as it is also called, Chinese cabbage, contains a lot of dietary fiber, which favorably affects the intestines and the health of your skin. In addition, this vegetable is a storehouse of vitamin C.
Shrimp is not only a delicious and low-calorie product. Potassium, calcium, zinc, iodine, phosphorus and sulfur are in their easily digestible form in their meat. Therefore, the combination of these ingredients in dishes is not only tasty, but also useful. Take out your notebooks and write down recipes for quick and delicious salads.
Nutritional value of the main ingredients
Shrimps enrich your body with potassium, magnesium and iodine, which is especially important for people with thyroid problems. The nutritional value of such a dish will be small:
- Caloric content: cabbage 16kkal on 100gr, shrimps - 95kkal.
- Proteins / fats / carbohydrates: in shrimp 19 / 2.5 / 0; Chinese cabbage: 1.2 / 0.2 / 2.
General recommendations
- For cooking salad with shrimps and Chinese cabbage, the first thing we need to boil the shrimp and chop the cabbage.
- We chop cabbage with small longitudinal strips, shrimps, if you have frozen, put them in salted boiling water and cook until they float. For a more intense taste, you can add bay leaf.
Important! Do not throw away the hard base of cabbage leaves - they contain the most vitamins and beneficial trace elements! Be sure to add them to the salad!
If you use royal or tiger shrimp, then they must remove the intestine.in which small pebbles, algae, etc., can accumulate. To do this, make a cut exactly along the back of the shrimp and carefully remove all unnecessary.
Simple and very tasty recipes with photos
We offer you to get acquainted with interesting recipes with photos based on Chinese cabbage and shrimp.
With crab sticks
For this salad will need:
- medium head of cabbage;
- 200 grams of frozen shrimp;
- 100 grams of crab sticks;
- 2 boiled eggs;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking:
- Cabbage cut into long strips.
- Crab sticks defrost and cut into small squares.
- Eggs are also boiled in the standard way and solved in the same way as crab sticks.
- Boil the shrimp in boiling water for 2-3 minutes until they come up.
- If desired, they can either be finely chopped, or use whole boiled shrimp for serving (laid out on top).
- Mix all the ingredients with the addition of salt and pepper.
- If desired, add olive oil.
- Decorate with shrimps and serve on the table.
With pineapple
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- head of Chinese cabbage;
- 200gr boiled king prawns;
- 3-4 canned pineapple circles;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- You can use low-fat yogurt for dressing.
Cooking:
- We wash the cabbage thoroughly, cut off the leaves and cut into thin strips.
- Pineapple circles cut into small squares.
- Seafood can be cut, or used for serving.
- Pineapple juice from the banks will need us for refueling.
For this:
- Pour half the juice into the pan, add a tablespoon of sugar.
- Stir and evaporate until thick.
- As soon as the sauce has acquired the consistency of liquid sour cream, remove from the stove and let cool.
With tomatoes
- Head of Chinese cabbage.
- 200g shrimp.
- 100gr cherry tomatoes.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
For refueling:
- a few sprigs of dill, garlic;
- It is possible to take as a basis both mayonnaise and a more dietary option - low-fat yogurt.
Cherry tomatoes cut into 4 slices.
- Wash cabbage and cut into strips.
- Seafood boil, clean, leave intact for submission.
Preparing refueling:
- Finely grate the garlic or squeeze the juice in the garlic press.
- Add dill, as well as salt and pepper to taste in our base.
Important! In this version of the salad it is necessary to mix the cabbage with the dressing, and only then add the other ingredients.
With cucumber
One of the easiest options. We will need:
- 400-500gr cabbage;
- 200g shrimp;
- two medium cucumbers;
- greenery;
- olive oil;
- salt pepper.
Cooking:
- Peking cabbage washed and cut into long strips.
- Shrimp boil, peel.
- Cucumbers cut into long thin strips.
- Dress with olive oil, sprinkle with herbs, and serve.
It turns out a light summer salad.
With crackers
For this recipe you will need:
- 600g of Chinese cabbage;
- 200g boiled shrimp;
- 2 boiled eggs;
- greenery;
- mayonnaise;
- salt, spices, crackers.
Cooking:
- Cut cabbage as in past recipes.
- Boil seafood with salt and bay leaf.
- Each shrimp rage about 3-4 parts.
- Eggs are cut into squares.
- Add greens, mayonnaise, as well as salt and spices.
- Crackers can be taken ready, but it is better to cook yourself. To do this, cut the loaf on the squares, pour the future croutons on a baking sheet, sprinkle with olive oil and send for 20 minutes to the oven at 180 degrees.Follow the preparation of crackers! They need to get and mix.
- Put ready mixed salad on plates and sprinkle with croutons on top.
With corn
- 1 2 head of cabbage;
- 200g shrimp;
- 2 eggs;
- 150g of corn in the can;
- 2 eggs.
For dressing: yogurt and garlic.
Cooking:
- Cut the cabbage as described above, boil the shrimp and eggs.
- Eggs cut into squares, shrimp, on request.
- You can use whole shrimp to serve or cut them into 2-3 pieces.
- All prepared ingredients are mixed.
- In a separate deep plate, mix yogurt and grated garlic.
- Add to salad, mix. We salt.
Sea with squids
- 1 head;
- 300 grams of salad shrimp;
- 2-3 carcasses of squid (depending on size);
- 3 eggs;
- mayonnaise, salt, pepper.
Cooking:
- Cabbage finely shred into thin strips.
- Boil seafood and eggs until cooked.
- Eggs cut into cubes, shrimp - 2-3 pieces each.
- Cargo squid dip in boiling salted water for 3 minutes, cool, remove the upper layer and cut into rings. These rings, in the future, can be used as a feed.
If a beautiful feed is not required, each ring is cut into 3 parts.
- Fill, mix, serve.
With cheese
It is necessary:
- 1 head;
- 300g king prawns;
- 2 eggs;
- 100g Parmesan;
- 50g feta cheese
For dressing: low-calorie yogurt, garlic, greens.
Cooking:
- Shred cabbage as described in previous recipes.
- Eggs boil and cut into thin strips.
- Representatives of crustaceans boil, clean the shell and leave intact for submission.
- Parmesan send to the smallest grater.
- Fetu cut into large squares.
- In a separate container mix yogurt, grated garlic, salt and herbs.
- All ingredients, except cheeses, mix together with the dressing and lay out on a plate.
- Sprinkle parmesan on top, and in the middle lay out a few feta cubes.
To save your time, you can use ready-made canned shrimp in brine. They are usually found in hypermarkets in sections with seafood.
By type of "Caesar"
You can also make a quick salad like "Caesar" from Chinese cabbage, shrimps, cherry tomatoes and crackers:
- Cabbage cut.
- Shrimp boil.
- Cherry cut into halves.
Rusks, to save time, you can take ready-to-taste cheese.
And for refueling we take yogurt and grated garlic. It turns out not worse than in restaurants, and, at the same time, dietically.
The Use of Culinary Dish
There are a lot of recipes for salads from Chinese cabbage and shrimps. We have given you examples of light salads with ingredients that can be found in almost every store. Such salads will be not only tasty, but also useful. The more variety of vegetables you add, the "vitamin" will make your salad.
Shrimps blend well with cheese, eggs and other seafood. - such a salad will be saturated with healthy proteins and fats, which is very important for athletes. Vegetables will serve as a source of vitamins and microelements. And it will have a good effect on digestion and intestinal function.
Seafood used for this salad is rich in vitamins A, B and D. Vitamin D is especially important for the development of bones and joints in children. If you give this shrimp salad to a child several times a week, this will reduce the risk of rickets. For adults, iodine is especially important, it is contained absolutely in all seafood.
Thanks to iodine, the normal functioning of the thyroid gland is maintained, problems with which often lead to excess weight, shortness of breath and chronic fatigue.
