Everyone adores the delicious shrimp and crab pasta salad made with imitation crab meat and miniature shrimp.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package uncooked tri-colored spiral pasta
- ½ cup mayonnaise, or more to taste
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- ¼ cup olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 (8 ounce) package imitation crabmeat, flaked
- 1 (6.5 ounce) can tiny shrimp, drained
- 1 pint grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 English cucumber, diced
- 1 (4 ounce) can sliced black olives, drained
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and rinse under cold water to cool. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside.
- Mix together mayonnaise, vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper in a small bowl. Pour over pasta and stir to coat.
- Add crab, shrimp, tomatoes, cucumber, black olives, and bell pepper; mix gently to coat with dressing. Taste and adjust seasoning if desired. If pasta is too dry, mix in more mayonnaise.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 446 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 51 g |
| Cholesterol | 39 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 471 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 21 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I took out the olives, added a little salad supreme and red onion. Was delicious!!
I tried it and i donnt like the vinegar taste
I came out very well but I was unable to get tri-colored spiral noodles
Tripled the recipe, and used fresh cooked shrimp instead of canned, added some italian seasoning mix to the dressing. Needed way more dressing – followed the directions, adding the dressing to the pasta, and it literally disappeared. Ended up adding 1/2 a bottle of Italian dressing and even that was probably too little. Also, I think there was too much pasta for the amount of veggies and seafood. Recommend reducing the pasta from 16 to 12 oz for the recepie.
Definitely will make again. Family loved it.
I kept it to just the crabmeat, and I used jarred red peppers. It’s a very lightly flavored dish. If it’s too dry, make sure the vinegar flavor doesn’t disappear.
Very good, I like this better than using Italian dressing. You can really play around with this, I added chopped celery and feta cheese. Will definitely make this again.
The mayo/oil/vinegar mixture needs to be doubled, in order to coat all of these great ingredients well! Otherwise a very good recipe!
I added creole seasoning and old bay and this turned out perfect!!
This was pretty bland and had the strong taste of apple cider vinegar first. My teenage daughter did not like the apple cider vinegar taste. If it had more different seasonings in it, we would have liked it more.
Very bland and tasted like vinegar. I will not make this again.
I thought this was only okay. I would definately use real shrimp next time. The tiny shrimp just seemed to get lost in the shuffle. I realize that the dressing was vinegar based, but it was a little too much for my taste.
I made this salad and it was fantastic and easy to make. My picky husband even liked it. Thanks
I’ve made this several times and it is a favorite of my family and coworkers. I use more crab meat and shrimp and either a green or red pepper. It is very savory and excellent after the flavors incorporate overnight.
Excellent salad! The only change I made was using salad shrimp instead of canned. Make ahead of time and let the flavors mingle in the frige. I’ll make this one again and again.
We had a package of this pasta and a can of crab meat and needed a good recipe for pasta salad. I made this for my wife, substituting some red onion for the green peppers, and she absolutely loves it. It’s a keeper! Thanks.
As I don’t like canned shrimp, I made this with frozen salad shrimp; I also thought the tiny canned type would be lost in the salad. Although Husband really enjoyed it, he said he thought the shrimp could have been larger – he didn’t really notice them. Other than that, this isn’t bad at all. It looks pretty too. Thanks!