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Asian Watermelon salad on a plate

Watermelon shrimp rice vermicelli appetizer

Watermelon shrimp rice vermicelli appetizer, which is a bright flavor combination of roasted, crunchy shrimps, ripe sweet cubes of watermelon, crispy radish, light and airy rice noodles coated with tangy Asian dressing artfully laid out in salad wedges. Perfect summer gathering appetizer, cooks in no time, watermelon and shrimp salad is so refreshing and tastefully zingy that it surprises everyone every time!
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Course: Appetizer, Main Course
Keyword: raddish, rice vermicelli, shrimp appetizer', shrimp salad, watermelon salad
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 4 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 8 people

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. shrimps
  • 1 bunch salad
  • 4 radishes
  • 1/2 lb. watermelon
  • 1/2 pack rice vermicelli
  • 2 tbsp. soy sauce
  • 1/2 tsp. sesame oil
  • 1/2 lime juice and zest
  • 1 piece ginger root

Instructions

  • Prepare your ingredients
    Ingredients for our asian watermelon salad: shrimp, raddish, vermicelli, watermelon, lime, soy, ginger, salad leaves
  • Cut watermelon into cubes, slice radishes on the mandolin, pick salad leaves into wedges. Defreeze frozen shrimp in the bowl of cold water up to ten minutes. Change the water in between.
  • Cover rice vermiceli with boiled water. Set aside
    Rice vermicelli soaking in hot water
  • Mix soy sauce, sesame oil, lime juice, grated ginger and garlic. Mix thoroughly to create an emulsion.
    the asian sauce for our asian watermelon salad
  • Put non-stick pan on maximum heat. Dry defrosted or fresh shrimps with paper towel until paper towel is dry (no liquid left on shrimps).Add virgin olive oil countto three and add shrimps immediately spreading the shrimps equally on the pan.Add two pinches of salt and pepper and turn shrimps on the other side with thehelp of two forks. Oil starts evaporating there will be lots of smoke but itall worth it. Mix shrimps with wooden spatula until all of the oil evaporatesand shrimps acquired beautiful tasty crust on them. Take of the heat andtransfer to the plate.
    fried shrimp on a pan
  • Arrange lettuce cups on the serving plate. Add rice noodles mixed with Asian dressing, arrange fried shrimps and watermelon cubes on top, scatter with radishes and mint leaves.
    ingredients for asian watermelon apatezire ready to assamble
  • Bon Appétit!
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