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Quinoa Salad with Red Curry Langoustine

By Joy Li


Serves 4, as a salad course

Ingredients:

1 head red lettuce
1 head Boston Bibb lettuce
1 cup quinoa
1 small red onion
1 cubanelle or sweet oriental bell pepper
1 carrot
1½ pounds langoustine (or small ebi shrimp)
¼ cup vermouth
3 tablespoons red curry paste
2 tablespoons  mayonnaise
½ teaspoon siracha sauce
corn (optional)
olive oil for cooking
salt and black pepper to taste

Directions:

Make quinoa, per package instructions (stove top cooking better than in rice cooker). Transfer quinoa to a separate bowl.

Cut the onion and pepper into ¼-inch dice. Finely slice the carrot.

In a stainless steel pan, sauté onion in olive oil until translucent, then add pepper and carrots for one minute. Add cooked vegetables to the quinoa. Set aside.

In the same pan, sauté langoustine in olive oil for 2-3 minutes, adding salt and pepper to taste. Remove to a plate.

Deglaze the pan with ¼ cup vermouth. In a small bowl, add the deglazing liquid to the red curry paste, then stir in mayonnaise and siracha.

Wash lettuce and spin dry. Slice leaves into ½-inch sections.

Add half of curry mixture into langoustines and coat evenly. Add other half into greens and mix well.

Assemble the salad from bottom up: quinoa, greens, corn, langoustines.


This is inspired by a salad at Exki, a Belgian-run healthy prepared food chain. In a one week stay in Brussels this last summer, I had this tasty salad four times.

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