This potato salad is excellent! Everyone asked me where I got the recipe and I told them on Recipezaar of course! The shrimp and olives really add depth and loads of flavor. A new favorite for all of us!
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Make sure you use regular mayonnaise in this, so it holds the salad together. It really does make a big difference! I have made this several times, and have found we love it using the regular mayonnaise. I have tried it leaving the shrimp whole and having it flaked, and flaking it between my fingers and doing it that way distributes the shrimp flavor so much better throughout the salad. This kicks regular potato salad up a notch, as is so awesome to have for a change. It is delicious and now a favorite. This is my go to salad now when I want something refreshing and delicious! It's even great with sandwiches! If you have picky eaters who don't like olives, put them in your blender and pulverize them. They won't even notice them, and it gives it so much flavor along with the shrimp.
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We are having some hot weather so I wanted to make up some potato salad. This one sounded so good I had to try it. It was loaded with flavor from the flaked canned shrimp and olives... Don't get me wrong, I love classic potato salad, but these ingredients add another layer of flavor. I let mine sit in the fridge for about 5 hours and it was delicious!
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Absolutely delicious! What a different take on a potato salad. The shrimp is so great flaked in here and adds such a great flavor. Highly recommend for everyone to try! Great recipe!
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This really steps it up a notch for potato salads! I doubled the recipe for a big crowd here for the holiday. I got rave reviews every time I turned around! Definately do use the canned shrimp. It really gives great taste appeal to the recipe. I look forward to having this all winter long, it's so delicious!
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I made this several times now and keep forgetting to review it, so here goes - I loved the mixture of flavors with the crunchy celery and shrimp. I did use the canned shrimp and flaked it with my fingers, as I thought the flavors would be distributed throughout the salad better using it, than using the whole shrimp cut up, and I was right. This gives us a new prospective on potato salad and my whole family LOVES this!
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Definately use the canned shrimp in this so it infuses it's flavors into the potatoes. Wow, was this good! We ate it for 2 days and wished I had doubled the recipe. This is one of those salads that go great with anything from fried chicken to steaks on the barbie and anything in between. So much tastier than potato salads.
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A wonderfully delicious potato salad which we have thoroughly enjoyed over the past few days - and the flavours have melded so well that it's become increasingly yummy each day! So if you are making this for guests, do make it the day before you're serving it. I used some plump and superbly flavoursome fresh shrimps - well, actually, we call them prawns! ;) I added the mashed boiled eggs as suggested in #19, some minced garlic and fresh dill but otherwise made this potato salad exactly to the recipe. We SO enjoyed this that I'm planning to make it again next weekend to take to a friend's place for dinner. Thank you so much for sharing yet another super recipe, Linda. Made for Zaar Stars Tag - and what a star recipe this one is!
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Had this recipe along with Sticky Chicken and it was delicious. We made as written, because we like a nice held together potato salad without it being runny. Came out perfect! Loved the addition of the canned shrimp. We drained it well and flaked it per instructions. Couldn't have tasted better. This gets more then 5 stars from us, although 5 will have to do, as that's as high as they go! We will make this often now that we have a recipe that we finally all agree on that is the best for our tastes! Excellent -Thanks Linda for this winner! Tony
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This is one tasty Potato Salad Linda! I drained the canned shrimp well and it wasn't soggy at all. In fact, using the shredded canned shrimp incorporated it well into the salad, giving flavor throughout the salad instead of just individual shrimp scattered in the salad as Parsley suggests. Parsley's picture looks totally different than it should because she used whole shrimp, and it looks soupy. Mine came out exactly as Linda's did in her pictures, using the shredded canned shrimp, and the texture and the flavor from the canned shredded shrimp pulled the salad together. Also, I can't imagine putting garlic powder in this recipe, as I don't think it would taste right with the flavors of this salad, and using mayo and sour cream would make this soupy as well. The mayonnaise gives it the texture and taste it needs to make this really special. Sometimes just following the recipe as written is best! It's excellent as written. Make it that way, and you won't be disappointed!
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What a great combination! I made this just as written, using variation in step #18, the chopped onion. You gotta have chopped onion in tator salad! This salad seemed too good to use those salty, soggy canned shrimp, so I used 8 oz of thawed tiny shrimp. I agree with all the other reviewers about adding dill or Old Bay or cayenne. Thanx for a great new picnic salad!
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Very easy a wonderful addition to family get togethers or pot luck lunchens.
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Loads of flavor is this salad. What a nice change for us! We all loved it!
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Bland. If somebody else made it and didn't tell me there was shrimp in there, I seriously wouldn't have noticed. I think all it did really was add texture. I brought this to a 4th of July party and on a scale of 1-10, the guests rated it a 6. It's not bad, it's just not particularly great either. I won't be making this again.
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I saw this in a review and knew I had to try it while the warm weather was still here. Needless to say, it far exceeded my expectations and was full of flavor from the shrimp, crunchy from the celery and totally delicious from the other ingredients! This is a keeper for us!
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I followed the recipe and it turned out delicious! I made it to go to my sister's house and the whole family dug in and enjoyed it!
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What a refreshing and delicious salad this makes! We used the flaked can shrimp and it was so flavorsome with it, that I can't imagine it having the same flavor with the whole shrimp, which it looks like they used in the picture posted. I look forward to passing on this recipe to my family and friends, and I am sure they will enjoy it as much as we do! Thanks!
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This recipe made with the canned shrimp is perfect. I read one posters comments about drying the carrots so it won't be soggy. There is absolutely no need to do this. Made as written with canned shrimp, this salad isn't soggy at all. As a matter of fact it molds together and you can actually put it in a 1 c. measuring cup and make it the shape of the cup and it stands on its own! Looks real pretty too. I added shaved carrot and an olive on top and it looked pretty as a picture. Wish I had a camera so I could take a picture. We couldn't stop eating this salad it was so delicious! We will have many many times in the future! Thank you for sharing another great recipe with us Linda!
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Update - I have made this several times now for different events that I have to bring something to. My SIL raved about it and said it was the best thing at her back yard barbecue yesterday, and that's a huge compliment coming from her! Everyone requests the recipe where ever I bring it, and when they find out how easy it is to make they can't believe they never heard of the recipe or had it before! If you haven't tried this salad and you are a shrimp lover, you are missing out on one awesome dish!!! ...... AWESOME just about sums this salad up! Made with canned shrimp and followed the recipe exactly. We had along with lots of other goodies at our 4th of July cookout. It was so flavorful and delicious that everyone raved about it! I had 4 ladies ask me for the recipe. Very popular dish and one I will make often, as my whole family loved it!
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This is one mean potato salad and brings you coming back for seconds! We all adore this recipe and my DS's said to make sure to keep this recipe safe, so I am adding it to my favorites so it doesn't get lost. Excellent flavors from the shrimp and other ingredients mixed. The longer it sits in the fridge the better it tastes. Give this one time for the flavors to mix and you too will make this a new favorite. I added a few shakes of celery salt, but otherwise made as posted. Awesome! Becky
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