Neptune salad is a retro salad composed of various seafood, such as small shrimp, crab, or imitation crab in a mayonnaise based dressing.
Neptune Salad
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
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Neptune Salad is my recipe of the day with the blogging group From Our Dinner Table. We group weekly to post new recipes on a variety of common topics. This week we’re featuring Retro Recipes.
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I had recently seen Neptune salad offered for sale in the deli section at the market. Seeing it there, I was reminded of how we made this many times in years past. It is a very retro kind of recipe, but also timeless.
I hadn’t made it in awhile, so was inspired to make it again. It is very easy to put together, much like tuna salad or chicken salad, except with seafood instead. And since it calls for cooked salad shrimp and imitation crab, you don’t even have to turn on the stove!
This would make a great menu addition during Lent and for fish Fridays. Feel free to serve this up on a lettuce leaf, or as a topping for butter crackers, or even stuffed into a croissant. (I can hear the hubs doing his Homer Simpson impression – “Mmm, croissants…”. LOL)
However and whenever you serve this salad, I hope you enjoy this blast from the past.
Retro Recipes
- Beef Stroganoff from That Recipe
- Beer Cheese Fondue from Art of Natural Living
- Classic Coq au Vin from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Classic Swedish Meatballs from Blogghetti
- Neptune Salad from Palatable Pastime
- Old Fashioned Cherry Cheesecake from Jen Around the World
- Shepherd’s Pie from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
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Neptune Salad
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Neptune Salad
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Neptune Salad
Ingredients
- 12 ounces cooked peeled salad shrimp
- 8 ounces imitation crab
- 2 ounces jarred diced pimiento peppers
- 1/2 cup celery finely diced
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons grated horseradish
- 2 teaspoons ketchup
- 2 teaspoons minced Italian parsley
Instructions
- Stir together and chill before serving.
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Wow, this is like a pasta salad without the pasta. Yes, a low carb eater’s dream!
My mom will love this recipe. The deli at the grocery store has this but it’s way to salty for her. Love it!
If I see this on the salad bar I always get a spoonful. It’s so delicious. I’m adding this to the must make. The shrimp make it look like pasta salad but it’s now. Love it!