Seafood salad with lime and chilli salsa
- Published: 31 Jul 04
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
This seafood salad recipe is fresh and zingy, perfect as a light summer lunch. Serve with crusty bread to mop up the juices.
For an even quicker dish, try this easy seafood salad with avocado.
Ingredients
- Large handful fresh parsley
- 1kg live mussels, cleaned and debearded (discard open ones that do not close when tapped, and any with cracked shells)
- 500g raw tiger prawns, peeled and deveined with tail-shells on
- 300g fresh squid, cleaned and cut into rings or strips
- 2 tbsp avocado oil
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 small shallot, finely chopped
- 100g rocket
For the lime and chilli salsa
- Finely grated zest of 1 lime
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 small red chilli, halved and deseeded
- Large handful fresh mint
Method
- Put 100ml water in a large pan. Tear the stalks from the parsley (reserve the leaves for the salsa) and add to the pan with a couple of black peppercorns. Bring to the boil, add the mussels, cover and cook for 5 minutes, shaking the pan until all shells have opened. Remove mussels with a slotted spoon, discarding any that haven’t opened. Add the prawns and squid to the pan, cook for 2 minutes or so until both are cooked. Remove with a slotted spoon.
- Boil the liquor in the pan until reduced by half, then spoon about 3 tablespoons of it (avoid the pepper and stalks, and discard remaining liquor) into a bowl and cool. Whisk the avocado oil and lime juice into the reserved cooking liquor. Season and stir in the shallot.
- Shell the mussels, toss with the prawns and squid. Cover and chill.
- To make the salsa, put the zest, garlic and chilli in a blender and whizz until chopped. Add the mint and reserved parsley leaves and whizz to make a fine mixture.
- Toss together the seafood and shallot dressing, then gently fold in the rocket. Divide between serving bowls and spoon over some lime and chilli salsa.
- Recipe from August 2004 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 179kcals
- Fat
- 6g (0.7g saturated)
- Protein
- 29g
- Carbohydrates
- 2g (0.2g sugars)
- Salt
- 0.9g
delicious. tips
To get ahead, prepare the seafood, dressing and salsa the day before.
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