Sesame, Noodle and Shrimp Salad

This noodle and shrimp salad is a wonderful salad to serve for lunch, brunch or a light dinner.

It is fresh tasting, and loaded with healthy vegetables.

I love a colorful salad for lunch and I love a seafood salad recipe. Put them together and you get this wonderful noodle salad studded with colorful vegetables and luscious shrimp.

It’s a delicious salad, perfect for any season.

So let’s see how to put together this easy, tasty shrimp salad recipe.

Ingredients for your Asian Shrimp Salad

The ingredients you’ll need for this fabulous noodle and shrimp salad are fairly simple and mostly ingredients you probably already have on hand.

First of all, you’ll need less than a pound of shrimp. I use fresh or frozen shrimp, not the canned variety.

You don’t need huge shrimp for this recipe. In fact very large shrimp are not the best ones to use here.

A small or medium sized shrimp is best for a salad like this. You don’t want to be having to cut your shrimp as you eat your salad because they are more than a mouthful.

These shrimp are perfect for this Asian seafood salad:

Using a medium or smaller size shrimp allows you to have a bit of noodle, shrimp and vegetables all in one bite. It gives you the best taste experience, and this shrimp salad is wonderful enough that you want that great taste experience.

If your group isn’t into seafood salad for whatever reason, or you just want a bit of variety, you can also substitute thin strips of cooked chicken breast for the shrimp.

It will be just as delicious.

This salad recipe has a few colorful and tasty vegetables added to it as well. We start out with a small orange or red pepper that we add for both taste and color.

Cut the pepper into thin strips or pieces and add them to the bowl.

You also need a couple of green onions (scallions), some fresh snow peas and a cucumber.

Chop the green onions and slice the snow peas.

The cucumber needs to be peeled for this recipe, then slice it down the middle and scoop out the seeds. Chop the cucumber into smallish pieces and add them all to the bowl.

Making the Sesame Dressing for the Shrimp Salad

I love this savory Asian flavored salad dressing. It’s perfect for our shrimp salad but you can use it for so many other things.

It would be perfect over a chicken and noodle version of this salad, or even on your ordinary ever day green salad. Zip up your daily salad with this wonderful sesame oil and soy sauce based dressing.

The recipe calls for Chinese rice wine vinegar. Rice wine vinegar is a must have in your pantry if you are going to be doing much Asian based cooking. You can use it in so many recipes and it isn’t expensive. I always have it on hand.

Add a couple of more ingredients for taste, like garlic (of course!) and ground ginger and you have a wonderful dressing that will take this shrimp salad recipe to another level.

Gluten Free Shrimp Salad with Noodles

This wonderful summer salad is great for those who need to eat gluten free because the substitutions you need to make are easy ones.

First of all of course you need to use gluten free noodles. There are lots of rice noodles or other gluten free noodles on the market and they are readily available in most grocery stores.

If you can’t find them in your local grocery store, any health food store will carry them.

Costco has a gluten free Ramen noodle than I use often and really love. So the gluten free noodles should be easy for you to find.

You don’t even need to use a noodle in this salad recipe. Substitute any shape of pasta that you might like. It will all work.

You can also leave out the pasta/noodles altogether. Just substitute the noodles with spiralized vegetable noodles. Zucchini, carrot or cucumber noodles would work well.

That would also make this shrimp salad an easy low carb salad recipe as well.

The other ingredient you need to look at to make this recipe gluten free is your soy sauce. Just make sure it is a gluten free version. Not all of them are.

That’s it. Everything else is gluten free and ready to go.

I hope you enjoy this refreshing, delicious salad. If you do, please let us know. You can use the comment section below the recipe.

Shrimp linguine is another fantastic shrimp recipe. Get the recipe here.

If you love this shrimp salad you will find more great shrimp recipes in our fish and seafood section here.

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