A refreshing seafood salad for the summer heat. It’s a wonderful addition to potlucks. Utilize your preferred pasta. If desired, chopped celery or Vidalia onions can be included.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 4 hrs |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 30 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package spaghetti, broken into 2-inch pieces
- 4 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
- 1 carrot, grated
- ½ cup frozen petite peas, thawed
- 1 cup frozen fully cooked salad shrimp, thawed
- ½ cup crab meat, cooked
- 16 ounces mayonnaise
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
- paprika to taste
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boil. Add pasta, and cook until al dente, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain, and add pasta to a large bowl. Stir in eggs, carrots, peas, shrimp, and crab meat. Cover, and refrigerate.
- To make dressing, stir together mayonnaise, milk, lemon juice, and sugar. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and paprika.
- Mix dressing into chilled pasta, stirring until well combined. If the salad seems dry, stir in more mayonnaise and a splash more milk or water. Cover, and chill before serving.
- You may use fresh, frozen, or imitation crab meat.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 463 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 97 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 11 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 303 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 33 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I cut this back to three servings as no one else likes sea food salad. I didn’t have salad shrimp so I used large, raw shrimp that I cute into smaller pieces and and cooked in a skillet with Earth Balance and fresh lemon juice. For the crab I used Johan, it’s what I had. I used farfalle pasta as it makes a prettier presentation. The only thing wrong with this recipe is that it lacks flavour, it needs something bright to lift the ingredients to the next level.
Very good! Everyone liked it.
Despite mixed reviews I tried it, and I’m glad we did! My husband had 3 helpings. I used bowtie pasta, and imitation crab (double the amount). Otherwise, I followed everything, and it was great. It did make a lot, and most of my extended family doesn’t eat seafood, but that was the only downside!
Have made it a few times because it was a big hit with the hubby. One thing I changed was amount of crab-I doubled it and used imi crab.
My mom used to make a macaroni salad very similar to this. I’ve beed looking for a recipe like it. I made it exaclty to the recipe & it was very good! Thanks!