Seafood Salad

Seafood Salad recipe pictures I am so excited to share this recipe with you. In traditional Italian culture, seafood is served for Christmas Eve dinner. Lots and lots of seafood. In our family, we have meat and seafood and we chose this seafood salad as well as our standard…baked clams. I know that Christmas was so last year but this was a special feast for us. And hey…better late than never, right?

I really liked this recipe for several reasons. It incorporated my favorite vegetables, it was fancy and I love steamed clams. Love! In fact my favorite meal is linguine with clam sauce. My family always makes baked clams with bread crumbs, garlic and olive oil but I prefer steamed clams without all the other stuff masking them. This seafood salad is perfect because there are no heavy ingredients covering up the yummy fish and veggies.

This is not necessarily a recipe you’d make on an ordinary…Wednesday. It’s slightly involved and fish is kind of pricey. But this is an excellent recipe for a special occasion. Next Christmas Eve for sure and…this Valentine’s Day perhaps?

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Here’s what you’ll need

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First prep the veggies

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Cook for just a couple minutes. You still want them to be crisp

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Whisk together the dressing ingredients; set aside

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Start layering all the veggies on a large platter. Ours could have been a little bigger

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Now it’s time for the fish. First the cod, then the shrimp and clams

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Let the clams open up. It’s like magic!

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For a fancy dinner. Loved it!

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