Best Chilean Salad Recipes

SEARED CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH CITRUS POACHED MUSSELS, CHAYOTE SQUASH, AVOCADO CILANTRO SALAD, AND BLUE CRAB ESSENCE

Steps:

• Mussels: Toast orange peels in a large, dry skillet or saucepan (with a lid that fits) until fragrant. Add olive oil and then onions, and saute over high heat for 30 seconds. Add mussels and stir them around a little. Add wine and cover with the lid; cook until mussels have opened, approximately 3 minutes. Strain and reserve liquid. Remove mussels from shells, reserve mussels, and discard shells.
• Citrus Emulsion: Combine orange juice and reserved mussel liquid in a small saucepan. Reduce liquid over medium-high heat until it takes on the consistency of a syrup. While still hot, add butter, 1 piece at a time, stirring constantly. Keep warm.
• Blue Crab Essence: Carefully drop crabs into a pot of rapidly boiling water for 4 minutes. Prepare an ice water bath. Drain crabs and immediately plunge them into the ice bath to halt the cooking. Pull all of the meat out of the claws and set aside. Crack crabs in half, discard anything that looks funky, rinse them, and reserve the shells.
• Bring fish fumet (or water) to a simmer in a saucepan. Add crab shells and simmer for 45 minutes. Strain liquid through a fine chinois into another saucepan, discarding crab shells. To the liquid, add cream and butter. Keep warm.
• Avocado Salad: Toss all ingredients together in a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Bring to room temperature before serving.
• Chayote Squash: Heat butter in a skillet over high heat. Add squash and cilantro and saute until tender. Keep warm until ready to serve.
• Chilean Sea Bass: Heat oil and butter in a large skillet over high heat. When pan is very hot, add fish and sear on each side until fully cooked through in the middle. Cooking time will vary based on the thickness of your fillets, but it should not take more than a couple minutes on each side. You may have to sear the fish in 2 batches so as not to over-crowd the pan.
• While fish is cooking, reheat mussels in the Citrus Emulsion and reheat the crabmeat in butter.
• To serve, spoon the Citrus Emulsion onto the middle of the plate, in a circle and spoon chayote on top. Arrange fish on top of chayote, and top fish with the Avocado Salad. Garnish with 4 mussels tightly around the chayote. With an immersion blender, froth the Blue Crab Essence. Spoon about 3 tablespoons of the essence around the plate, and place the crabmeat next to the froth.

ENSALADA CHILENA (CHILEAN SALAD)

Steps:

• Cut onion in thin slices/strips like "feathers." Rinse the onion in a collander under running cold water for several minutes, firmly squeezing the onion to sweeten the onion and remove some of the strong taste.
• Peel the tomatoes. Cut in thin wedges, similar in shape to the onion strips. Season to taste with remaining ingredients.

CHILEAN CUCUMBER AND CARROT SALAD

Steps:

• Toss sliced veggies with fresh lime juice and sprinkle with chili powder.
• Adjust the seasoning to your own taste and serve.
• This salad does not hold well so please enjoy right away.

CHILEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Mix tomatoes, onion, salt and pepper together on a platter.
• Combine oil and lemon juice and pour over salad.
• Sprinkle with coriander leaves on top.

VEGAN CHILEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Arrange tomatoes and onions on a large platter. Season with salt and black pepper.
• Whisk olive oil and lemon juice together in a medium bowl; pour over salad and toss to coat. Sprinkle with cilantro.

CHILEAN CARROT SALAD

Steps:

• Peel and grate carrots.
• Combine all ingredients in serving bowl. Sere cold.

CHILEAN-STYLE AVOCADO AND SHRIMP SALAD

Steps:

• Combine the water, bay leaf, allspice, lemon and salt in a saucepan over high heat.
• Bring to a boil, then decrease the heat to medium-low and add the shrimp.
• Cook for 7 to 10 minutes, until the shrimp are curled and pink. Do not overcook the shrimp, as they are significantly better if just cooked through.
• Drain the shrimp and allow to cool completely before assembling the salad.
• To prepare the sauce, rinse the anchovy fillet, pat dry with paper towels and mince.
• Combine the anchovy, parsley and mayonnaise in a bowl.
• Place a strainer over the bowl and juice the lemon over the contents.
• Add the pepper and red peppers and whisk to blend completely.
• To assemble the salad, cut the avocados in half lengthwise and remove the pits. With a large spoon, scoop out the avocado flesh and reserve the empty shells to present the salad.
• Distribute the cabbage among 4 salad plates.
• Make a hollow in the center of the cabbage and place the empty avocado shell in the hollow.
• Cut the avocado flesh into 1/2-inch cubes.
• Place the shrimp and avocado in a bowl.
• Fold the sauce into the shrimp mixture and mound the salad in the avocado shells.
• Serve immediately.

SALPICON - CHILEAN SALAD

Steps:

• ENGLISH:
• Chop lettuce, combine with the meat, carrots, eggs or potato's.
• Add salt, oil and lemon to taste.
• Serve with olives and garnish with mayonnaise.
• SPANISH:
• Se va juntando en la ensaladera la lechuga (lavada), picada a cuadritos finos con la carne cocida y molida, la zanahoria cocida y picada chiquita y los 2 huevos duros picados o patata's.
• Agrégue sal, aceite y limon a gusto.
• Se sirve rodeada de aceitunas y un poco de mayonesa encima.