Spicy Shrimp and Citrus Salad

This Spicy Shrimp and Citrus Salad is tasty and fresh with an Asian-influenced dressing for the salad and garlic chili oil marinade for the shrimp. 

These days at our house, we are on a rota, taking turns making dinner each night. It started when I was out of town for a family emergency and my husband and younger daughter started taking turns cooking. “Ah,” I said from up north, quoting a line from one of our favorite movies, Liar, Liar, “My plan to phase myself out is almost complete!” (Always joking, of course! I ain’t going nowhere.)

When I got home again, they slotted me into the program and now we each cook every third day. This spicy shrimp and citrus salad was dinner on my last turn, two days ago. This served three of us comfortably for dinner with some leftovers. 

Spicy Shrimp and Citrus Salad

If you don’t have the little Cuties I used here feel free to substitute larger oranges and cut the pegs into smaller pieces. I must confess that I used just a bit more shrimp for my salad because mine were headless and cleaned but unpeeled and I didn’t know what the peeled weight would be. Headless cleaned but not peeled they weighed 1 1/2 lbs or 675g. After peeling, I started this recipe with 17 oz or 484g uncooked shrimp. My motto regarding shrimp is always the more, the better. If you've got 1 lb or 450g of peeled uncooked shrimp, it's all good.

Ingredients

For the shrimp:

2 tablespoons Chiu Chow Style Chili Oil (garlic chili oil)

1 lb or 450g peeled, deveined large shrimp 

For the salad dressing:

1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger

1 clove garlic, smashed and chopped

3 tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar

3 tablespoons canola or other light oil

3 tablespoons lower sodium soy sauce

2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil

1 tablespoon honey

For the salad:

2 short romaine lettuces, roughly torn

4 clementines, peeled and separated into pegs

2 green onions, cut in 1/2 in or 1cm lengths

5-6 small radishes, sliced thinly

White and/or black sesame seeds, for serving

Method

Give the garlic chili oil jar a really good shake then add two tablespoons to the shrimp and stir well to coat. Refrigerate until ready to cook. 

In a clean jar, shake together the grated ginger and garlic with the rice vinegar. Set aside for a few minutes. Add in the canola, soy sauce, sesame oil and honey. Close the jar tightly and give it a good shake to combine. Chill until you are ready to serve the salad. 

Heat a large skillet over a high heat for a few minutes. Tip in the marinated shrimp and push them around until they are in a single layer. 

Cook on the first side until they brown just a little then turn the shrimp over to cook the other side. Remove the shrimp to a plate to cool. If you’ve done this ahead and aren’t serving the salad imminently, cover the shrimp with cling film and chill.  

To assemble the salad, rip the lettuce into bite-sized pieces on a large platter. 

Top with the shrimp, sliced radishes, clementine pegs and green onion. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. 

Give the jar of dressing another sustained shake. If you are confident that your group will finish the salad in one sitting, spoon it over the salad plate. If not, allow each person to serve their salad and spoon dressing over each plate. 

Enjoy! 

It's time for my Fish Friday Foodies to share their recipes for seafood in salads! Check them out below. 

• Avocado and Shrimp Chopped Salad from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Mediterranean Avocado Salmon Salad from Making Miracles
• Prawn 65 With Couscous & Braised Veggies Salad from Sneha's Recipe
• Salade Niçoise from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Shrimp Salad on Toast Points from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Soft Shell Crab & Shrimp in Quinoa Salad from Of Goats and Greens
• Spicy Shrimp and Citrus Salad from Food Lust People Love
• The Polarizing Anchovy + Egg Salad Niçoise from Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Are you a food blogger who would you like to join Fish Friday Foodies? We post and share new seafood/fish recipes on the third Friday of the month. To join our group please email Wendy at wendyklik1517 (at) gmail.com. Visit our Facebook page and Pinterest page for more wonderful fish and seafood recipe ideas. 

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