PRAWN, PEA & CORN SALAD: Almost instant, high fibre & protein, low-carb

Accidentally defrosted the freezer?  Time for unplanned but delicious salads and saving raw meat/fish.  Details on Welcome to the Blog posts on the nav bar (above).

Colourful multi-textured salad for busy times and to mark the (almost) end of winter...

Healthy Prawn, Pea & Corn Salad

They say necessity is the mother of invention and in the case of this recipe, a freezer that conked out overnight - accidentally - led to this quick colourful healthy salad.

A bag of frozen peas and a packet of frozen Atlantic prawns needed to be used up, quickly.  This delicious low-carb salad was the result.  It was especially enjoyable to eat, knowing that with budgets tight, good food didn't have to be thrown out.

The salad, obviously, is just as good with fresh products. 

Cost:  £3'ish, if using the salad drawer and defrosted veg & prawns

Feeds: 1 generously

Ingredients:

80gm defrosted Atlantic prawns or other fish (cooked, if raw)

2 generous handfuls frozen peas

2 generous handfuls tinned or defrosted corn niblets

1/4 cup finely sliced peeled celery OR slivers of red bell pepper 

generous handful of crisp lettuce leaves, sliced

1 small tomato cubed

opt: cucumber, peeled, in small cubes (67's went soggy in the fridge)

1/3 to 1/2 cup yoghurt-mayo (see bottom of page on dressings)

1/2 tbsp fresh 0r 1/4 tsp dried parsley, chives or green of spring onions

Opt garnish: crumbled cooked bacon 

Method:

1. Bring a small amount of water to a boil; add peas and corn; leave a few mins until peas are tender; drain, run cold water over; set aside 
2. Mix lettuce, celery and tomato in a bowl
3. Moisten peas & corn with a generous but not overwhelmong portion yoghurt mayo
4. Carefully stir in prawns; mix till all is moistened
5. Season with salt & pepper
6. Sprinkle over parsley or chives
7. Serve cold

Comments:

'An unexpected salad cobbled together when the freezer temporarily died was a lovely, tasty surprise.  Will make again...delierately next time.' Retired writer

Tips:

• If your freezer  stops working and you have unexpected defrosted food, remember the principle of freezing foodstuffs: the only time when you can re-freeze items is if they were frozen raw.  Then they must be defrosted and cooked.  Only when cooled can they be frozen again. 
• To make the prawns go further, slice in half sideways (like a butterfly)

 

  

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This recipe has been developed by B  Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and  may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.