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Seafood Pasta Salad

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Seafood salad recipe with crabmeat and shrimp on a white plate.

Seafood Pasta Salad is one of the best pasta salad recipes for summer. Loaded with flavor from the pasta, shrimp, crab meat, celery, and onion. All coated with a simple dressing made from mayo and ranch salad dressing. This is the perfect summer salad recipe.

Next, to my Potato, Macaroni, and  Taco Salad, this Salad is a favorite of my family and I'm sure it will be a favorite of your family.

Pasta Salad on a white plate.

My husband's family would get together for many holidays throughout the year, which meant potlucks. One of his sisters would bring this seafood salad and it was one of the first dishes to be gone, everyone loved it.

It's been a long time since we have had his sister's seafood salad, so I decided to give it a try. This is my version of hubby's sister's seafood pasta salad I think you will enjoy this recipe.

How To Make Seafood Pasta Salad

In order to call this salad seafood, you will need some seafood so why not start with crab. I used the imitation crab for this salad, I think it holds up better than the real crab meat.

But by all means, if you would like to try real crab meat I'm sure it would taste even better. You may also want to try our crab stuffed mushrooms if you like real crab meat.

For the shrimp I used cooked salad shrimp, it was an 8-ounce package that said 100-200 shrimp inside. I found this to be a good amount for this salad.

The ingredients for a pasta salad in a large bow.

I started making this salad by chopping the imitation crab up into chunks. Even though the shrimp is small I still chopped them up a bit also. You will want to make sure everything is bite-sized that way you can get a little of everything in a bite.

While I'm getting everything ready for the salad I had the radiatore noodles cooking on the stove according to the directions on the box. If you can't find raiatore noodles then rotini noodles will work.

I add a little olive oil to the pasta so the noodles wouldn't stick together however you could add butter as well. Along with cutting up the crab and shrimp I also cut up celery, onion, and fresh parsley to go into this pasta salad.

When the pasta is all done cooking, drain all the water off. Having the noodles in the colander is the perfect time to run cold water over the noodles to help cool them down some.

Making The Dressing

Now, this is the part of the seafood salad that I'm not sure if it's the same as hubby's sister's or not, but I really like the flavor of this dressing.

A bowl that has mayo, sugar, and ranch dressing for a pasta salad with seafood.

In a small bowl,  I mixed together with the mayo and ranch dressing with a little sugar. Make sure that the sugar is dissolved completly.

For the mayo, I did use real mayo and not miracle whip. If you use miracle whip you might want to add more sugar to help tame down the miracle whip some.

With the dressing made, the pasta cooked, and all the goodies cut up. It's time to mix everything together in a large bowl, mixing until all ingredients are coated with this delicious dressing. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Seafood Salad on a white plate.

Once all the ingredients are mixed together cover your bowl and refrigerate the salad until you are ready to serve it. This salad goes great with my Sloppy Joes or a good hamburger.

This Seafood pasta salad is a great potluck recipe or for a long weekend at home. I like to make this recipe during the summer for long holiday weekends.

Having a large bowl of it in the fridge takes the guesswork out of what to have with what we will be grilling.

Hope you enjoy this Seafood Pasta Salad as much as we do.

My Creative Manner is answering the question "what's there to eat" with simple recipe creations~ Jen

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Seafood pasta salad on a white plate with the words Seafood Pasta salad on it.

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Seafood Pasta Salad with mayo dressing on a plate.
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Seafood Pasta Salad

Seafood Salad Recipe With Crabmeat and Shrimp #mycreativemanner

Course Salad
Cuisine American
Keyword Cold Side Dish Recipes, Easy Salad Recipes, Easy Side Dish, Pasta, Seafood, Seafood Pasta Salad, Side Dish Recipes, Summer Salad
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 8 People
Calories 170 kcal
Author Jennifer

Ingredients

For the salad

  • 8 Ounces Imitation Crab Meat Chopped up
  • 8 Ounces Cooked Salad Shrimp Chopped up
  • 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
  • 16 Ounce Radiatore Noodle
  • ½ Cup Celery Diced
  • ⅓ Cup Onion Diced
  • 1 Tablespoon Fresh Parsley Chopped

For the Dressing

  • 1 Cup Mayo
  • ½ Cup Ranch Dressing
  • 1 Tablespoon Sugar

Instructions

For the Salad

  1. Bring a pot of water to a full boil. To the pot of water add olive oil

  2. Cook pasta according to the directions on the package. Drain the pasta into a colander, run cold water over the pasta. Make sure all water is off the pasta. 

  3. In a large bowl add the crab meat, shrimp, celery, onion, parsley and the cooked radiatore noodles. Mix everything together. 

For the Dressing

  1. In a small bowl combine the sugar, mayo and ranch dressing.

  2. With the dressing made add it to the large bowl with the crab and goodies. Mix everything together really well

  3. Cover bowl and place in the refrigerator until salad is cool  

Recipe Notes

The nutritional value may vary depending on the ingredients used. 

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Nutrition Facts
Seafood Pasta Salad
Serving Size
 
8 g
Amount per Serving
Calories
170
% Daily Value*
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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  1. Cristina Alciati

    July 31, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    5 stars
    I love pasta salads in the Summer. They can be very filling whilst helping you cool down after a warm day spent at work or running errands. This recipe sounds delicious. Being from the Mediterranean region I tend to use tuna, olives and tomatoes in my version of this but will try the shrimp and crab version next time. 🙂

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    • Jennifer

      July 31, 2018 at 10:07 pm

      The way you make your pasta salad sounds really good as well, I will have to try it. Thank you for stopping by

      Reply
  2. Megan

    August 01, 2018 at 2:32 pm

    My husband would looooove this! He loves pasta salad, and could eat an entire package of imitation crab!

    Reply
    • Jennifer

      August 01, 2018 at 2:47 pm

      I'm the same way, I love pasta salad.

      Reply
  3. Danielle

    August 01, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    5 stars
    This looks delicious! I am pinning for later. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Jennifer

      August 01, 2018 at 3:04 pm

      Yes, this is delicious! Thanks for stopping by and pinning this recipe.

      Reply
  4. Jena Leigh

    August 01, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    This looks super delish! And yeah I dont like the taste of Miracle Whip or Kraft lol. *gag*. This is totally perfect for the summer too????

    Reply
    • Jennifer

      August 01, 2018 at 7:50 pm

      Yes, it is delicious. I think that the miracle whip would have changed the taste quite a bit that way the real mayo was the best option for this salad.

      Reply

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