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Shrimp and Orange Salad with Pomegranate

By
Andrew Chase
Photography by
Felix Wedgwood
  • Vegetable recipes
  • Prenatal pick
  • Heart-healthy
  • Easy recipes
Salads featuring citrus fruits are a traditional part of winter cuisine. Here, pomegranate further enhances both the flavour and visual appeal. You can use any sweet oranges for this first-course offering, but for extra holiday colour, try Moro oranges, the most intensely flavoured of the crimson-fleshed blood oranges, or the sweet rose-fleshed Cara Cara navel oranges. If you don’t have fresh mint, add 1 tsp/5 mL dried mint to the dressing.

Ingredients

  • 1 pomegranate
  • 1/3 cup  (75 mL)  extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tbsp  (30 mL)  balsamic vinegar
  • Pinch salt
  • Pinch black pepper
  • Dash hot pepper sauce
  • 3 oranges
  • 1/3 cup  (75 mL)  finely sliced sweet onion
  • 1 head Boston lettuce
  • 3 heads Belgian endives
  • 2 cups  (500 mL)  loosely packed arugula leaves
  • 1/4 cup  (60 mL)  chopped fresh mint
  • Shrimp:
  • 4 thin slices fresh ginger
  • 4 thin slices lemons
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tbsp  (15 mL)  coriander seeds
  • 1-1/2 tsp  (7 mL)  salt
  • 1 tsp  (5 mL)  black peppercorns
  • 12 oz  (375 g)  shrimp, peeled and deveined

Preparation

Cut pomegranate in half crosswise. Using juicer, squeeze 1/3 cup/75 mL juice from 1 half. Whisk juice with oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and hot pepper sauce; chill.

Remove seeds from remaining pomegranate half; set aside.

Cut off ends of oranges; cut off peel and white pith. Cut segments out of membranes; chill. Rinse onion under cold running water. Wash lettuce and endive; separate leaves.

Shrimp: Bring 2 cups/500 mL water, ginger, lemon, bay leaves, coriander, salt and peppercorns to boil over medium heat; boil for 5 minutes. Strain through fine sieve, discarding solids. Return liquid to pan; bring to boil. Add shrimp; reduce heat to low. Poach, below simmer, until just cooked through, about 3 minutes. Drain and chill.

Arrange lettuce, endive and arugula leaves on individual salad plates; top with orange segments, onion slices and shrimp. Whisk dressing; drizzle over salad. Sprinkle with reserved pomegranate seeds and mint.

Makes 4 to 6 servings.

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