The weather in Central Texas has been crazy this week! One minute beautiful and sunny to be overtaken by crazy thunderstorms, the next day beautiful and sunny again then the tornado warning, then the next day lovely sunny day then a night of hail! I know they say when you are asked what’s the weather in Texas, the response is-if you wait a few minutes it will change-but this was nuts! Anyway I thought we should have a back up dinner idea in case the weather spoiled our grilling plans. I decided to do a family favorite-an easy peasy Shrimp Roll.
Easy Peasy? So true!
Like my egg salad sandwich recipe or scones from the Sticky Fingers Bakeries-the Shrimp Roll is easy and a hit for any meal. The mixture is also great for many tea parties as mini tea sandwiches. Anyone would think you have put in a ton of work with this recipe-you should keep that secret to yourself. Obviously I always serve it with tea.
This recipe is for 4 people-adjust yours accordingly, just make sure to monitor how much salt and pepper you are adding. A little goes a long way.
Ingredients
- Shrimp 8 oz frozen pre-cooked medium shrimp-(that’s about 45 medium shrimp or 1 1/2 cups)I suggest you get the packet that has the shrimp peeled, de-veined and tail off. There are bags of medium frozen shrimp with tails-you would just cut off ans discard the tails.
- Light Mayo 3 tbsp
- Red onion 2.5 tbsp (less than 1/8 of an onion)
- Cherry Tomatoes 3 tbsp (about 4 tomatoes)
- Celery 3 tbsp (about ½ a celery stalk)
- Cucumber 6 tbsp
- Dill 2.5 tbsp
- Salt 1 pinch
- Pepper 1 pinch
- Lemon juice-squeeze of lemon or about 1 tsp
- Hot dog bun
Calorie conscious
I make mine with light mayo but regular mayo is fine.
Directions
Wash and de-thaw the frozen shrimp-sometimes I speed up the de-thawing process by running them in a colander under cold water.
Chop up
Red onion (peal a few layers off first it is less than 1/8 of the onion so do not chop up the whole thing)
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Celery (cut the ends first)
Dill (take the leaves off of the stem then chop them).
Combine the chopped up ingredients with the mayo
Chop up the shrimp into small pieces
Mix in shrimp, salt and pepper with the mayo mixture.
Add the lemon juice
Hot Dog Bun
We broil our hot dog buns on a baking sheet for 2-3 minutes until brown.
You do not need to broil the bun though.
Divide the mixture into 4 and fill the bun and enjoy.
Substitutions
You can replace the shrimp with lobster or crab
You can substitute the hot dog bun with a roll or bread for tea sandwiches.
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