Shrimp Salad

Name: Shrimp Salad
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 1.5 lbs cooked shrimp (chilled), chopped; 2 stalks celery, finely diced; 1/4 cup red onion, finely diced; 1/2 cup mayonnaise; 4 tbsp sour cream; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 2 tbsp fresh dill (chopped); 1/4 tsp salt; 1/8 tsp black pepper; 4 cups fresh lettuce or greens

Tender cooked shrimp mixed with mayo, celery, and fresh herbs, served over crisp lettuce or in a croissant. Light, elegant, and satisfying.

20 minEasyServes 4430 cal/serving

JamaicanLunchNo-CookStandard

Ingredients

1.5 lbs cooked shrimp (chilled), chopped
2 stalks celery, finely diced
1/4 cup red onion, finely diced
1/2 cup mayonnaise
4 tbsp sour cream
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp fresh dill (chopped)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp black pepper
4 cups fresh lettuce or greens

Instructions

1

In a bowl, combine 1/2 cup mayonnaise, 4 tbsp sour cream, 1 tbsp lemon juice, 2 tbsp fresh dill (chopped), 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/8 tsp black pepper.
2

Add 1.5 lbs chopped cooked shrimp (chilled), 2 stalks finely diced celery, and 1/4 cup finely diced red onion to the dressing.
3

Gently toss until all shrimp are evenly coated.
4

Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving.
5

Serve over 4 cups fresh lettuce or greens or on your choice of bread.

Questions

Can I make Shrimp Salad dairy-free?

Yes. The dairy in this entry is 4 tbsp sour cream. Swap the sour cream for thick coconut yogurt with a squeeze of lemon. The richness shifts slightly, but the method does not change.

Can I make Shrimp Salad ahead?

Yes, it takes well to being made ahead. Refrigerate leftovers within two hours and eat them within two days (seafood turns fast). It is served cold; there is nothing to reheat.

Can I halve or double Shrimp Salad?

Yes. As written it serves 4. Every ingredient in this entry carries precomputed half and double quantities, and the app's batch dial rewrites them inside each step. There is no cooking pitfall here; the quantities simply scale.

Serve it with

Cook this free in the app

Textual Chef is a plain-text cooking reference of 4,481 recipes, free to read and cook from, with no account and no paywall. In the app, this entry scales itself: half, standard, or double batch, every quantity recomputed inside the step that uses it. No ads, no life stories, no photos of somebody else's dinner.

The entries are curated and public-domain sourced, written to a fixed template and checked against it: tested quantities, one closed vocabulary of methods, and precomputed half and double batches on every line. Nothing here is a scraped blog post.

Cook this free in the appNo download needed. It opens in your browser, instantly. The kitchen tools (planner, shopping list, pantry, import) are $5.33 a month billed annually, and the first 30 days are free.