Dinner Dates: Snow Pea Salad with Lime-Infused Shrimp

Snow Pea Salad with Lime-Infused Shrimp
Cookbook: Grilled to Perfection

Yay or Nay: Yay, but not a super yay. This was good, but not great. It tasted fine, it just lacked that YUM factor that makes you want to go back for more. The shrimp weren't as flavourful as we would have liked. The toasted sesame seeds were awesome though. We made quite a few changes though so that may have affected the flavour.

Substitutions and Comments: Ok a whackload of subs this time. First off, for the Shrimp Maranade we did not put the jalapeno pepper seeds in, just the meat of the pepper. We found didn't think we had peanut oil, so we used vegetable oil...but later found peanut oil, so we threw in an extra splash to give it the peanut oil flavour. We have no idea where to find kaffir lime leaves....so those were left out. Next time, if we ever make this again, we might put some lime zest in there to compensate. For the salad, we didn't slie hte snow peas, just chopped off the ends and peeled the stringy part. We also omitted the yellow pepper and only did a red one, because we found one pepper was alot. For the dressing, we only had light sesame oil not dark, and we used gluten free soy sauce. Finally, as it was getting really late and dark outside we put the shrimp in the oven rather than grilling them on the BBQ. To toaste sesame seeds, just put them in a frying pan for a few minutes making sure to stir them frequently.

Toasting sesame seeds

Recipe:
18 tiger prawns, peeled and deveined
6 bamboo skewers, soaked in water for 1 hour

Shrimp Marinade
Juice of 1 lime
1 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tbsp honey
Pinch cilantro, chopped
1 tsp jalapeno pepper, finely chopped
1/4 peanut oil
3 kaffir lime leaves, finely chopped

Snow Pea Salad
4 cups snow peas, cleaned and sliced into strips
1 red pepper, sliced thin
1 yellow pepper, sliced thin
1 red onion, sliced thin

Dressing
1 tbsp peeled and minced ginger
2 large garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 tbsp brown sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Juice of 2 limes
3 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp dark sesame oil
1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds
Pepper to taste

1. Combine marinade ingredients for shrimp. Put in a resealable plastic bag with shrimp and coat shrimp in maranade. Let shrimp sit in maranade for half an hour in fridge.
2. In the meantime, prepare salad. Place sliced snow peas in a large bowl, add peppers and onions.