Lemon Shrimp Pasta Salad with a creamy, low fat yogurt dressing! – Rock Recipes

Lemon Shrimp Pasta Salad. With a creamy, low fat, yogurt based dressing! This shrimp pasta salad makes a sensible addition to your summer BBQ table or as a side dish at any time of the year.

Lemon Shrimp Pasta Salad

With summer barbecue season already in high gear, it’s always a challenge to keep new and interesting side dishes coming. They are greatly needed to serve beside all those steaks, grilled chicken breasts, & ribs.

Whatever else you have coming off the backyard barbecue would benefit with a great side dish, no doubt.

This super easy Lemon Shrimp Pasta salad uses an easy to prepare, low fat, yogurt based dressing. It makes for a tangy compliment to the substantial bites of pasta.

Some julienne slivers of fresh, sweet snow peas add colour, flavour and great crunch too.

Mixing up the shapes in this Lemon Shrimp Pasta Salad.

You can use whatever pasta you like in this recipe. Next time you are in the dry pasta aisle though, slow down. Take a look at some of the interesting shapes you may find there.

Close up of steamed shrimp — Pre-cooked shrimp can also be used in this recipe.

There are dozens of different pasta shapes you may never have heard of. Like me, when I saw these dishi volanti pasta disks. They definitely add add an interesting visual dimension to the salad.

Set a pasta salad out that’s made with these on a buffet table and you’ll definitely have folks asking questions and gravitating toward it first.

The point is that even small changes to make them more visually appealing can make them more memorable and interesting. Even with the simplest of dishes like this uncomplicated shrimp pasta salad

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Lemon Shrimp Pasta Salad

Yield: 6 servings

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

With a low fat, yogurt based dressing this shrimp pasta salad makes a sensible addition to your summer BBQ table or as a side dish at any time of the year.

Ingredients

2½ cups cooked pasta, rinsed and cooled
1½ cups small cooked shrimp, peeled and de-veined
½ cup thinly sliced red pepper
½ cup julienne fresh snow peas

For the dressing

⅔ cup plain Greek yogurt
zest of one lemon, finely grated
juice of one lemon
2 cloves finely minced garlic
4 tablespoon olive oil
1½ tablespoon honey
salt and pepper to season
2 tablespoon chopped chives

Instructions

Cook the pasta to al dente and rinse well with cold water.
Leave the pasta to drain well while you prepare the dressing and the rest of the salad.
For the dressing
Whisk together all of the ingredients and let it sit for 20 minutes if time allows. This allows the lemon zest to infuse flavor into the dressing.
If you like a thinner dressing you can always add a little more lemon juice or even a little skim milk.
Toss together the dressing with the shrimp, pasta, peppers and snow peas.

Notes

When serving leftovers of this salad, I like to re-toss the salad with a little buttermilk or skim milk. This helps to revive the creaminess of the dressing if the pasta absorbs some of the moisture from it.

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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