This summer time salad is super easy to make and consists of leafy green arugula (rocket), cherry tomatoes, red onions, cucumber drizzled with a sweet garlic dressing.
A super simple low carb keto shrimp salad that comes together in less than 15 minutes, with no cooking required who doesn't love a bowl of salad on a hot summers days?
Pack away your crockpots, slow cookers and pie dishes until the fall and say hello to this tasty summer salad. It's that time of year where you're probably fretting about looking good and eating your way to good health.
Have no fear, let me introduce you to this low carb keto shrimp salad. I'm talking about an abundance of fresh leafy greens, light salad friendly vegetables with some plump, juicy shrimp drizzled in a sweet garlicky dressing.
As a foodie this is the time of year where I get to explore recipes that are easy to prepare while retaining their flavour. This simple shrimp salad is a prime example of what I'm referring to. It's suitable for whole 30, keto, low carb, gluten free and the paleo lifestyle.
It's a tasty no fuss salad with ingredients which you've probably used at some point thus making them accessible.
Even though I'm not a keto blogger, I just so happened to notice that the recipe I had in mind fell in line with the keto lifestyle, so I thought hey why not grab the attention of the keto crew while I'm here (howdyyyy).
How to make the best keto vinaigrette dressing
No salad would be perfect without a dressing and this sweet garlic dressing has a nice subtle hint of sweetness to it.
Along with the garlic cloves, extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar with black pepper, himalayan salt and some parsley will tantalise your taste buds.
The dressing can be easily prepared in a blender to breakdown the garlic cloves and combine the rest of the ingredients together.
Make it into a meal
Wouldn't you just love some ideas for how to make this would-be salad into a main meal. Imagine if you could carry this over to dinner time? How cool would that be?
Try adding some healthy fats like avocados, poppy seeds, chia or flaxseed, heck why not include some sunflower seeds
You could always add an assortment of nuts i.e brazil, cashew nuts etc...
Cauliflower mash or Cauliflower Rice would be a great addition too.
If you want to stay within the leafy green confines then simply add some leafy spinach, kale (dinosaur) collards or even some Steamed Cabbage.
Notes and tips
- Feel free to use yacon syrup, stevia or monkfruit sweetener.
- To make this recipe super simple and quick make sure the shrimp is already cooked.
- If you purchase raw shrimp you will need to toss it in a frying/skillet and cook for 5-7 minutes until pink.
- Rocket is what some countries know as arugula same thing!!
- Again Shrimp and prawns are interchangeable
- I like to use an oval sloping bowl for the salad - starting with the rocket/arugula and then adding the rest of the ingredients before tossing them together with a final drizzle of the sweet dressing. However, you can use whatever bowl you want !
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Low Carb Keto Shrimp Salad
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked shrimp devained (200g)
- 1 tsp of black pepper
- 1 tsp of garlic granules
- ¼ tsp of himalayan pink salt
- 8 cherry tomatoes washed
- 1 cup of arugula (rocket) a small bag, washed (90g)
- ½ cup of cucumber sliced and halved (50g)
- 1 small red onion sliced
For the dressing
- 2 tbsp of yacon syrup/stevia/monkfruit sweetener
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tbsp of apple cider vinegar
- ¼ tsp of black pepper
- 1 tsp of parsley
- ¼ tsp of himalayan pink salt
Instructions
- In a medium sized bowl coat the shrimp with the garlic granules, pink salt and black pepper and set aside
- Add all of the ingredients for the dressing to a high speed blender and blitz.
- In a salad bowl of your choice arrange the rocket along with the tomatoes, red onion and cucumber slices.
- Add the shrimp to the leafy salad bowl and toss everything together.
- Drizzle the garlic dressing all over the salad and enjoy!!
Notes
- Feel free to use yacon syrup, stevia or monkfruit sweetener.
- To make this recipe super simple and quick make sure the shrimp is already cooked.
- If you purchase raw shrimp you will need to toss it in a frying/skillet and cook for 5-7 minutes until pink.
- Rocket is what some countries know as arugula same thing!!
- Again Shrimp and prawns are interchangeable
- I like to use an oval sloping bowl for the salad - starting with the rocket/arugula and then adding the rest of the ingredients before tossing them together with a final drizzle of the sweet dressing. However, you can use whatever bowl you want !
I seriously love how flavorful this is!! A huge hit at my house!
Glad to hear that Toni.
What a perfect summer recipe and yes one I won't need my crockpot for! I love the simple ingredients which all have great flavours and I am definately going to try this salad on the weekend,yum thanks for sharing!
You are more than welcome Adrianne.
This salad looks like the perfect summer lunch option and I love that it is low carb too!
Thanks Bintu!!
Love the idea of this shrimp salad and this dish screams summer. I cannot wait to dig in and try it.
Thank you Mirlene!!
I love shrimp so I'm all about this salad - love the idea of this with some cauli rice too - yum!
Thanks Shashi.
This looks delicious! Definitely gonna it a try and hope it will turn out excellent.
Thank you and enjoy!!