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Pasta Salad with Crab and Shrimp
Photo: Anna Pelzer

Pasta Salad with Crab and Shrimp

13 ingredients Serves 4. openrecipes
Pasta Salad with Crab and Shrimp

The ingredients that you add to a pasta salad can be as varied as the shapes of pasta that you use. Replace the crab, shrimp and asparagus in this recipe with shredded, poached chicken and thawed petite peas, or experiment with your own combinations of meat, poultry or seafood and vegetables.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

353
Calories
35g
Protein
20g
Fat
12g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Asparagus 6 spears (90g) 27
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Lettuce 1 cup shredded (36g) 5
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Tarragon 1 tsp dried (0.5g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbs. plus 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 3/4 lb. penne, fusilli or tubetti
  • 1 1/2 lb. asparagus, tough ends trimmed and spears cut into pieces
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 3 Tbs. balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
  • 2 Tbs. mayonnaise
  • Pinch of freshly ground pepper
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/4 lb. fresh lump crabmeat, picked over for shell fragments
  • 1/4 lb. cooked small shrimp
  • 2 tsp. finely chopped fresh tarragon
  • 1 small head green- or red-leaf lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces

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By williamssonoma · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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