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10 Bright, Simple Salads with Seafood

By Food & Wine Updated January 28, 2019
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Whether you're craving something earthy like squid and black-eyed pea salad or something hearty like warm shrimp tossed with kamut and tarragon, these easy seafood salad recipes make lovely, simple dinners.

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Shrimp Salad with Green Curry Dressing

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Green curry paste is the secret ingredient in this supersimple, bright and crunchy shrimp salad recipe from F&W's Justin Chapple.

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Spinach and Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon-Dill Dressing

Spinach and Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon-Dill Dressing
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F&W's Melissa Rubel's refreshingly crunchy, tangy salad makes for an excellent spring lunch or super quick dinner.

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Warm Shrimp Salad with Kamut, Red Chile and Tarragon

Warm Shrimp Salad with Kamut, Red Chile and Tarragon. Photo © Johnny Valiant
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Kamut is an heirloom variety of wheat with a sweet, almost buttery flavor. F&W editor Kristin Donnelly loves using it in her warm shrimp salad.

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Smoked Mackerel Salad with Crunchy Vegetables

Smoked Mackerel Salad. Photo © Tina Rupp
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"The fish we eat in Denmark—mackerel, herring, salmon—have beneficial omega-3 oils," says Trina Hahnemann. Any smoked fish will work well in the sweet-salty salad here.

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Squid and Black-Eyed Pea Salad

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"Whenever you go to Spain, you always have beans," says Gerald Hirigoyen. "And squid is everywhere in Basque country, where I grew up, and in California too." Hirigoyen combines earthy black-eyed peas (which are a kind of bean) and quickly boiled squid with red wine vinegar and fresh herbs to create a bright-flavored, satisfying first-course salad.

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Crab Louie

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"Crab Louie is not a salad course," says Evening Land winery president Larry Stone. "It's an entire meal."

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White Anchovy and Crisp Pita Bread Salad

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Large chunks of toasted pita stay delightfully crunchy in this bread salad, laced with white anchovies and topped with a garlicky sour cream dressing.

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Spinach-and-Shrimp Salad with Chile Dressing

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This healthy dish gets it kick from the cumin seeds and turmeric.

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King Crab Salad with Grapefruit and Avocado

King Crab Salad with Grapefruit and Avocado
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This lovely seafood salad was an improvisation. "I made it with what I had in the house," Piero Incisa della Rocchetta recalls. "Scarcity breeds creativity." He uses grapefruit juice both to glaze the crab and to make the sweet-tangy salad dressing.

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Lemony Shrimp Salad

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Richard Reddington tosses butter lettuce and shrimp in a lemony vinaigrette, then tops the dish with a second salad of romaine, tomato, avocado and bacon in a Caesar dressing.

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    1 of 10 Shrimp Salad with Green Curry Dressing
    2 of 10 Spinach and Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon-Dill Dressing
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