Butter Lettuce Shrimp Salad with Pears and Blue Cheese

Name: Butter Lettuce Shrimp Salad with Pears and Blue Cheese
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters roasted salted smoked hazelnuts or roasted salted smoked almonds (see notes); 4 servings Blue cheese dressing; 2 firm-ripe Asian, Comice, or Bosc pears (about 1/2 lb. each); 2 heads butter lettuce (1 1/4 to 1 1/3 lb. total); 118 milliliters cherry tomatoes (1/2 in. wide, if available); 4 servings Fresh-ground pepper; 2 Tbsps lemon juice or rice vinegar; 227 grams shelled cooked tiny shrimp

Butter Lettuce Shrimp Salad with Pears and Blue Cheese is a gluten free, primal, and pescatarian main course. This recipe makes 4 servings with 227 calories, 17g of protein, and 10g of fat each. This recipe covers 21% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. If you have rice vinegar, butter lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the rice vinegar you could follow this main course with the Red Velvet Mug Cake as a dessert.

Instructions

Rinse and drain lettuce leaves; wrap in towels, enclose in a plastic bag, and chill at least 15 minutes or up to 2 days.

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Wrap

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Rinse shrimp with cold water and drain. Rinse and stem tomatoes; if larger than 1/2 inch, cut into quarters.

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Tomato

Shrimp

Water

Coarsely chop nuts. Rinse pears, core, and cut into 1/4-inch-thick sticks; in a bowl, mix cut fruit with lemon juice.

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Lemon Juice

Fruit

Pear

Nuts

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Mound lettuce on plates or in bowls. Over lettuce, evenly scatter shrimp, tomatoes, and nuts. Top equally with pears. Ladle dressing to taste over salads and sprinkle with pepper.

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Shrimp

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Ingredients

Servings:

118milliliters

roasted salted smoked hazelnuts or roasted salted smoked almonds (see notes)4servings

Blue cheese dressing 2

firm-ripe Asian, Comice, or Bosc pears (about 1/2 lb. each)2heads

butter lettuce (1 1/4 to 1 1/3 lb. total)118milliliters

cherry tomatoes (1/2 in. wide, if available)4servings

Fresh-ground pepper 2Tbsps

lemon juice or rice vinegar 227grams

shelled cooked tiny shrimp

Recommended wine: Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc

Shrimp works really well with Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc. These crisp white wines work well with shrimp prepared in a variety of ways, whether grilled, fried, or in garlic sauce. The Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 26 dollars per bottle.