How to Make Oysters and Shrimps Salad
Serves: 8
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Ingredients needed to make Oysters and Shrimps Salad:
- 2 lb medium shrimps, cooked, peeled and deveined
- 2 pints small oysters
- 1 tsp anchovy paste
- 1 large yellow onion, diced
- 1 lb penne pasta, dried
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup milk
- 8 green onions, chopped
- 2 tbsp all purpose flour
- Pinch of dried thyme
- Dash of tabasco sauce
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 8 cups assorted salad greens
- 2 tbsp peanut oil
Cooking instructions for Oysters and Shrimps Salad:
- Cook the penne in a pot of boiling salted water until cooked al dente and drain them out into a colander; set aside and keep warm.
- Heat oil in a Dutch oven until it shimmers and dust the flour into it.
- Cook it, while stirring constantly, until they turn slightly brown in colour and throw in the onions.
- Stir fry for a couple of minutes or until they soften and stir in the anchovy paste until well coated.
- Pour in the milk and whisk in the cream until they blend thoroughly.
- Cook the sauce until it begins to simmer and add a dash of tabasco as well as Worcestershire sauce into it.
- Sprinkle the dried thyme into it and stir them all together to mix well.
- Continue to simmer the sauce for about 8-10 minutes and stir in the drained oysters.
- Add the shrimp and give them a nice stir to coat well with the creamy sauce.
- Simmer further until heated through and fold in the paste until well coated with the sauce.
- Whisk in a splash of milk in case the sauce thickens more than desired and adjust the seasonings if necessary.
- Pile up a cup of salad mix over each serving plate and spoon some of the seafood-pasta-cream mixture on top.
- Sprinkle the chopped green onions on top and serve warm.
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