Name: Shrimp Salad with Old Bay
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American

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This shrimp salad recipe with Old Bay tastes like summertime. If you’re a seafood lover, it’s the kind of recipe that’s simple to make yet, huge on flavor. Try serving this zesty shrimp salad for lunch or at your next summer event.

If you don’t like spending lots of time cooking in the kitchen, you’re going to like this shrimp salad recipe made with Old Bay.

It’s a simple, quick and healthy recipe that tastes great — and will cool you way down! While you have to boil of a pot of water to cook the shrimp, that’s about it. Once the water is boiling, it takes takes less than five minutes to cook. Quick tip: Use baby shrimp; it cuts the cooking time down significantly.

After that, it’s just a matter of mixing everything together and voilá, you’ve done something great — a cook once enjoy twice kind of meal (especially if you double it). Of course, only if your family will let you leave back leftovers. But, that’s another story for another day.

Some Recipe Pointers

This shrimp salad recipe with Old Bay calls for the use of a cloth spice packet bag. Although you don’t need to use one if you don’t want to, having one on hand does make retrieval of the peppercorns and bay leaf much easier than scooping them out one at a time.

This is what those spice bags look like:

That way, you can simply pull the spices from the water once it’s time to put together the salad. Using a slotted spoon or sieve will work to drain the shrimp, but the peppercorns will be left behind. If you can’t find a spice bag, alternatively a piece of cheesecloth would work just as well.

*You could use large shrimp for these recipe but, the cooking time would vary and you would need to cut the shrimp to make it bite-sized. Using “baby” shrimp allows for less cooking time and there is no need to cut the shrimp. The texture of the shrimp would also likely be slightly firmer. But either one would really work.

Is this a Gluten Free Salad?

Absolutely! This recipe uses just a few simple ingredients.

Ingredients in Shrimp Salad with Old Bay

precooked/peeled “baby” shrimp
mayonnaise
celery
peppercorn
garlic
bay leaf
lemon juice
Old Bay seasoning (yes, it’s gluten free)
fresh dill
butter

If you’d like to try more healthy salad recipes, here are a few recipes you may like:

Mediterranean Cauliflower Salad

Curry Chicken Salad with Grapes

Confetti Chicken Quinoa Salad

Spicy Cobb Salad

Serving Suggestions for the Zesty Shrimp Salad

You can serve the shrimp over organic greens, pair it with a delicious salad, slide it between two pieces of crispy gluten free toast, or enjoy if straight out of the bowl. It’s your party — you can literally lick the bowl if you want to!

Yield: 6