Seafood and Pasta Salad
photo by twissis
- Ready In:
- 28mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2838.0 ml hot tap water
- 226.79 g uncooked rotini pasta
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled and chopped fine
- 78.78 ml mayonnaise
- 29.58 ml lemon juice
- 4.92 ml dried dill
- 1.23 ml minced garlic
- 340.19 g imitation crabmeat
- 226.79 g fresh snow peas, trimmed and cut crosswise in halves
directions
- Bring water to boil in a large pot.
- Add pasta to boiling water and cook uncovered for 8 minutes or until tender but still firm.
- Mix cucumber,mayo, lemon juice, dillweed and garlic in a large bowl. Add the seafood.
- Thirty seconds before draining pasta, add snow peas.
- Pour pasta and snow peas into colander; plunge colander in very cold water to chill contents. Drain Well. Add to dressing and stir to coat.
- I like to refrigerate for a couple of hours to blend flavors. Tastes geat the second day too.
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Reviews
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Made for Spring PAC 2013 - 1 of the best things about pasta salads is they easily allow for pers pref chgs, so I chg'd your recipe a bit but feel I kept the heart of it intact. Macaroni was used instead of rotini pasta because it was what I had on-hand. Crabmeat (imitation & real) are both surprisingly not to be found in Iceland, so I used Icelandic baby shrimp & added canned tuna after finding it a bit bland on a taste test. At that point, it was right where it needed to be for us. What I esp liked about this pasta satad was that it was not swimming in mayo as many are plus the crisp texture of the snow peas. Sweet red onion & halved black olives might also be good optional adds, my DH commented. We liked this a lot & it made a complete meal when combined w/homemade bread & fruit. Thx for sharing this recipe w/us.