Sea and Shell, Quietly Reimagined
There is something quietly playful about borrowing a form from one tradition and filling it with another. The cannoli shell — crisp, delicate, patient — was made for abundance, and here it holds something entirely unexpected: a cool, herb-flecked shrimp mousse that is elegant without trying to be. This is the kind of appetizer that earns its place on a table not through spectacle, but through the soft pleasure of a single, well-considered bite.
Ingredients
- 1 pound medium shrimp
- 1/3 cups mayonnaise
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1/4 teaspoons garlic salt
- Fresh parsley, to taste
- Alessi Sea Salt
- Alessi Black Peppercorns, freshly ground
- fresh dill
- 12 Alessi Mini Cannoli shells, split in half
