Tasty Shrimp Salad Recipe

Looking for a special shrimp recipe or treat to serve family or guest at your next party? Well, certainly shrimp is a favorite and very popular sea food to cook and serve to guest or the family. Shrimp is actually very versatile. Why, you might prepare a shrimp and pasta salad, grilled shrimp, shrimp with rice, shrimp with tropical fruits, shrimp with vegetables. Shrimp can be made very simply to the often quite exotic. So, why not try this great Shrimp Salad Recipe. The recipe is easy to make and a very inexpensive complete meal.

Shrimp Salad Recipe Ingredients

Step One1 - The first step is to get started gathering together all the ingredients that are required to make this delicious and very tasty Shrimp Salad. This saves time and eases the preparation process for the cook. The ingredients include the following:

One cup of shrimp
One cup thinly sliced celery
One hard cooked egg
Two teaspoons pickle relish
Salt
White Pepper
Mayonnaise
Lettuce
Tomato
Mixing bowl
Mixing utensils
Knife

Step Two - . Take the shrimp and remove the black vein. That is that weird looking black stringy line down the back of the shrimp. Removing the black vein is actually very easy to do. Simply look at the black vein running down the back of the shrimp. Did you know that this vein is the shrimp's intestines which are visible through the back? Slip a sharp knife into the black vein and cut or slice out. And throw away.

Step Three. If the shrimp prepared are large cut them into bite size pieces. Do not cut small size shrimp. Leave them whole.

Step Four - Take the celery and slice it thinly with a sharp knife. Then take the knife and chop up or slice the egg.

Step Five - Combine the celery, egg, and pickle relish in a mixing bowl. Season with salt and white pepper. Then add mayonnaise to taste.

Serve the freshly made shrimp salad on lettuce with tomato slices and serve to guest. This shrimp recipe should serve about four people. Double the shrimp recipe for eight to nine-guest.