Seafood silicon is a simple and fresh recipe, ideal as a starter or as a tapa. Silicon is like a salad but with pieces of seafood and chopped vegetables. It can be made very varied, since it admits many ingredients, so you can add your favorite seafood and customize it to your liking.
The important thing for the silicon to be good and delicious is to use fresh ingredients. The vegetables must also be fresh and good. For the rest, it is a very easy and quick recipe to make, so you will not see yourself with so many complications. We give you all the steps and tips you need to learn how to make seafood silicon, let’s do it!
Ingredients to make Seafood Salad:
• 1 cooked octopus leg
• 6 cooked prawns
• 3 crab sticks
• 1 piece of red pepper
• 1 piece of green pepper
• 1 piece of spring onion
• 1 splash of olive oil
• 3 tablespoons of vinegar
• 1 dessert spoon of sweet or spicy paprika
• 1 pinch of salt
How to make Seafood Salad:
Chop the vegetables (onion, red pepper and green pepper) into very small pieces. Cut the octopus and crab sticks into small pieces. Peel the prawns and, depending on your taste, cut them or leave them whole. Put all the ingredients in a serving dish.
Prepare vinaigrette with the oil, a splash of vinegar and the paprika. Mix the ingredients well. Add a little salt to the seafood salad and bathe it with the vinaigrette. Serve very cold and enjoy.
Seafood salad – Suggestions
As we mentioned at the beginning, the seafood salad is a recipe with which many variations can be made. Here are some suggestions for you to prepare the best seafood silicon and leave everyone asking for the recipe:
• In this case, we have made the silicon with quite accessible and cheap ingredients, but you can always add other shellfish of your choice such as spider crab or prawns.
• You can serve it as a starter at Christmas or on any special occasion, as well as enjoy it as a light and highly nutritious dinner.
• You can prepare it the day before and leave it in the fridge. This way, the flavors will settle better and the recipe will be more delicious.
• If you don’t have all the seafood you need, you can fill it up by using cheap fish like hake.