• Home
  • Blog
  • About Dominica foods and recipes
  • Contact
  • Shop
    • Products
    • Cart
    • My account
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Dominica Gourmet

Dominica Gourmet

A blog about foods from Dominica

Summer Salad with Prawns and Fried Plantains

July 20, 2020

salad with prawns and fried plantains

This colorful salad with prawns and fried plantains is a must try!

My parents were firm advocates for growing our own vegetables. When we were kids, my siblings and I used to be exposed to a wide variety of vegetables and were indeed not as picky as my kids. Our parents encouraged us to eat everything on our plates. Hence the command “eat your vegetables” certainly didn’t relate to us since vegetable eating was part of our lifestyle.

Vegetables were a crucial part of our everyday diet. We often feasted on locally grown, common vegetables like carrots, avocados, cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, watercress, tomatoes, and spinach. We enjoyed many of these vegetables during breakfast and lunch, and they were rarely used on their own as a stand-alone meal since they were not very filling to us. They were often paired with bread, bakes, and provisions like dasheen, tania, yams, green bananas, and plantains.

In this salad, I added a Caribbean staple, fried plantains. It helps make the mixture a little more filling and balances the plate by adding more texture and a sweet and savory taste. Fried plantain is so versatile that it can be a star on any meal like this salad. This combination salad with prawns and fried plantains may be rare, but it’s one of my favorites. You can also substitute the prawns for headless shrimps and any other protein. Other items on this plate that can be replaced is the golden beets for red.

In Dominica, beets in a salad aren’t very common since they’re not widely grown and available. When I was growing up, they were not common in my area, and golden beets were even rarer. The golden beets, just like the plantain, offer a more substantial meal and helps make this salad more wholesome. Did I also mention that beets are one of my favorite vegetables?

I love adding a protein side to my vegetable salads. It makes me feel like I’m eating a full meal. Seafood is one of my favorites to add, second is chicken breast. For this salad, I chose prawns prepared in a light curry, coconut sauce.

The prawns with the head attached give it the looks that I remember when we would catch crawfish in the river next to our house. We discarded the head since it’s considered less nutritional. However, I love it for its authenticity and look.

I hope that you’ll try this lovely satisfying summer fun salad with prawns and fried plantains. Check out this easy recipe. If you’d like to take it up a notch, add some goat cheese.

Summer Salad with Prawns and Plantains

Easy fun recipe
5 from 1 vote
Print Recipe
Course Appetizer, Salad
Cuisine Caribbean, Dominican

Ingredients
  

  • Kale
  • Cherry tomatoes sliced
  • Cucumbers slice
  • Egg hard boiled and cut in half
  • Beets boiled then peeled and sliced
  • Red onions sliced
  • Salad dressing olive oil, chopped cilantro, salt, chopped bell peppers, ground peppercorns, lemon juice.
  • Fried plantains ripe plantains, deep fried
  • Curried prawns saute prawns in coconut milk, turmeric, garlic, salt, and pepper

Instructions
 

  • Place a bed of kale in a salad bowl.
  • Skillfully roll the slices of cucumber and place them in the bowl on top of the kale
  • Add the sliced tomatoes
  • Add around 5 slices of fried ripe plantains
  • Then add the red onions
  • Add the eggs
  • Finally pour generous portions of dressing over the salad

Notes

Add goat cheese to your salad for an extra punch of flavor.
Keyword fried plantain, salad

in Salads

Reader Interactions

you may also like
Honey garlic salmon salad recipe
Green papaya salad with fried snapper
Easy bake crab cakes
Easy bake crab cakes recipe
Five simple and delicious salads
Five simple and delicious salads

Comments

  1. Marva Massicot says

    July 23, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    5 stars
    This looks so delicious. I will be making it this weekend. Thanks for your inspiration!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Meet Mayma

Sakafete! Growing up in Dominica, food was central to socializing and in abundance. Cooking with my family was one of the highlights of my youth. We grew our produce and raised livestock, which often made it to our kitchen table. With my mother and grandmother's guidance, I discovered my passion for cooking at age 9. We used lots of verbal recipes then. Today, I share those culinary experiences with my children, using the fundamentals of Dominican cooking and making it our own. I'm not a trained cook/chef, however, as I embark on my food journey, I invite you to experience foods from the Caribbean island of Dominica. Let's cook!
read more

Join our Mailing List

Recipes, tips, and more right in your inbox.

Top hits!

  • Sauteed banana flowers
  • Pineapple shrimp rice in a pineapple bowl

Featured

Dominica Gourmet Book

Dominica Gourmet cookbook is available for preorder

Categories

  • Appetizers
  • Breakfast
  • Desserts
  • Dinner
  • Drinks
  • Salads
  • Snacks
  • Soups
  • Uncategorized
  • Vegetarian

Our Gram

2020 © A blog about foods from Dominica