This Seafood Salad recipe only takes about 10 minutes to throw together and is so much better than what you buy at the grocery store.
Seafood Salad is one of my weaknesses. You will note, that as a food blogger and generally weird person, I have odd weaknesses. Croutons, Spicy V8, and pickles are also on the list.
While it is so simple to buy seafood salad from the grocery store deli, I would urge you to make your own instead. It is so incredibly easy and a recipe that you will fall in love with.
Seafood Salad Ingredients
- Imitation Crab Meat: The base of this salad, imitation crab meat is a delicious and affordable ingredient made from cod. Though you could definitely replace it with lump crab meat.
- Salad Shrimp: I love buying frozen salad shrimp for this recipe because it is small, tastes fresh, and is always easy to find.
- Red Onion and Celery: These veggies bring a great crunch to the salad. If you don’t like celery you could certainly replace it with red bell pepper or English cucumber, removing the seeds to eliminate extra moisture.
- Mayonnaise: This makes the great dressing for the salad. I like to use light mayonnaise in this recipe to reduce fat.
- Lemon Juice: Fresh is always best when it comes to lemon juice, though you could centennially use bottled in a pinch.
- Old Bay Seasoning, Dill, Salt & Pepper
- Salt & Pepper
Make Ahead
This is a great make-ahead dish. It can be made up to 24 hours in advance. I actually love the recipe more after it has chilled in the refrigerator for a few hours.
Leftovers
This recipe will keep in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days when stored in an airtight container. I do not recommend freezing this recipe.
Serving Seafood Salad
I think that seafood salad is great on it’s own. But it is also delicious eaten on a croissant or a bun as a seafood salad sandwich. You could also serve it in lettuce or endive cups as an appetizer.
If you make this seafood salad recipe or any of my other recipes, leave me a comment and let me know what you think! I love hearing from you.
Recipe Video
Seafood Salad
Ingredients
- 8 ounces imitation crab meat
- 12 ounces salad shrimp thawed
- 1/2 small red onion diced small
- 2 stalks celery diced
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise (I used light)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Old Bay Seasoning
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh dill or 1/2 teasoon dry dill
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt if using table salt, start with half)
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the crab meat (broken up), shrimp, red onion, and celery.
- In a small bowl whisk together the mayonnaise, lemon juice, Old Bay Seasoning, fresh dill, and salt. Taste and add salt and pepper to taste.
- Stir the dressing into the main ingredients and serve. This recipe can be stored in the refrigerator for up to four days in an air tight container.
Notes
Corey J says
Tried this recipe and it came out excellent, Thank you
I’m so happy you liked it, Corey!
Cynthia says
I made the seafood salad and it was easy to make and tasted very good. Highly recommend this recipe.
Sandie says
I recommend using half or quarter of the amount of Old Bay seasoning. It was way too salty for my tastes. I mixed in some shredded lettuce, which helped. Otherwise, easy to make and delicious.
Janice says
Would this seafood salad be good on little pastry cups as an appetizer
I haven’t tried that, but it sounds delicious!
Norma Hensley says
I will probably use this at my wedding anniversary. Thanks!
I hope you enjoy it!
Hal Brindley says
I’ve made this 3 times already and have enjoyed it each time. I serve it on lettuce or salad with a little oil and vinegar and my favorite is on a garlic buttered toasted roll with some greens and/or melted cheese. Yum!
I’m so happy to hear you enjoy it so much!
Tina says
This salad was fabulous and so easy to put together in just a few minutes. I’ll definitely be making this again SOON!
I’m so glad that you liked it!
Marylou Valdez says
I really love the seafood recipes,soo good
Kim Bates says
I just put this together. Only added 1 teaspoon of Old Bay and it is very salty already- did not add any extra salt but did add a teaspoon of sugar and that helped.
Cant wait to have it for dinner!
Corene says
I made this yesterday, and it was delicious. I’ve never made seafood salad, so I’m glad I started with this recipe. Another review mentioned about it being too salty, so I only used the Old Bay. Perfect.