Summer Shrimp Pasta Salad. Make this easy shrimp and pasta salad for your next picnic or potluck! It's made with tiny pink Shrimp Pasta Salad Recipe. It is both classy and perfect for a hot summers night.
Chicken, shrimp, and summer vegetables are tossed with cooked pasta in this hearty, crowd-pleasing salad. In a large bowl, mix the chicken, pasta, shrimp, olives, tomatoes, carrots, and cucumber. In this salad, the hot pasta will wilt the spinach and soften the squash. You can have Summer Shrimp Pasta Salad using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Summer Shrimp Pasta Salad
- You need 1 box of Angel Hair Pasta.
- It's 1 lb of Any size shrimp, Thawed..
- Prepare 1/2 cup of Green onion, Chopped.
- You need 6 oz of Feta Cheese.
- It's 1/2 can of Hot Rotel.
- Prepare 1 bunch of Cilantro chopped.
- It's 1 clove of Garlic.
- Prepare 3 oz of Black Olives.
- You need 1 of olive oil, extra virgin.
- You need 1 of Cavender's All Purpose Greek Seasoning.
- It's 1 dash of salt.
- It's 1 dash of ground black pepper.
- It's 3 of pads of Butter.
- Prepare 1 of lemon.
Firm tofu, cut into cubes and cooked in a nonstick pan, can be used in place of shrimp. When you have beautiful and seasonal ingredients on hand, turning out a delicious meal is so simple. That's the main idea behind today's squash-, spinach. This shrimp and pasta salad is the perfect main dish salad for a hot summer lunch or dinner.
Summer Shrimp Pasta Salad instructions
- Boil pasta according to directions..
- Thaw Shrimp and sautee in butter and Extra Virgin Olive Oil and garlic. Cook for 2 mins on each side or until done. Squeeze 1/2 lemon to shrimp while it sautees..
- Once pasta is done, run under cold water. Add Olive oil so it won't stick. Shrimp should be done..
- Chop green onion and cilantro. Add to cold pasta and toss with shrimp.
- Add feta, 1/2 can of drained rotel, can of black olives and season with Cavender's Seasoning to your liking..
- Toss in a little more Olive oil and refrigerate overnight or enjoy right away..
- ENJOY ;).
The dressing is a lightly seasoned mayonnaise mixture with some spicy brown mustard to give it tanginess. Use a reduced-fat mayonnaise in this salad. To make the pasta salad I used my favorite brand of pasta, Delallo with their Ricotta and Spinach Tortellini. I LOVE a good tortellini salad in the summer, adding shrimp adds lean protein and keeps the calories low. It's also delicious, every time I make it people ask me for the recipe.
