Shrimp salad
Another special recipe from Mount Athos for summer salad with shrimps and vegetables. Ideal side dish or main dish for the weekends during the Lenten fast when olive oil consumption is allowed. Try this monastic recipe and you will easily have a hearty and delicious salad. You can accompany it with a slice of the herb bread made by the Orthodox monks.
We boil our shrimps.
We clean them well. If necessary, remove the intestine from their spine.
We wash our vegetables well and cut them.
We put the fresh lettuce in a bowl and then the rest of our vegetables.
We add a little salt.
We mix well.
Then, we put in our shrimps.
Finally, we add some olive oil.
We can use either fresh or frozen shrimp.
The shrimps would be good to be already boiled so that we don't waste time.
We can pour lemon or vinegar over it.
We can add any other vegetable we want.
