Easy Salad with Shrimps

This salad with shrimps is very light and healthy - no mayonnaise is used to prepare the dressing, which is made with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Besides of that, sunflower seeds add a touch of crunch to this salad - it is both delicious and nutritious.

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Ingredients:
2 cups mache (also called field salad, corn salad, field lettuce), washed
7 ounces shrimp, peeled and deveined
3 large garlic cloves, sliced
1/2 yellow or red bell pepper, seeded and cut in strips
4 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons sunflower seeds
Salt and white pepper to taste

Directions:

1. In a frying pan, heat olive oil; add garlic and sauté shrimps until they turn red.

2. Heat another frying pan without oil and toast sunflower seeds, tossing often.

3. Whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil (in which shrimps were sautéed), salt and pepper.

4. In a bowl, combine mache, bell pepper, shrimps and garlic, sunflower seeds, and dressing. Mix well and distribute salad mix equally on plates.

Enjoy your meal !!
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