Seafood Asparagus Pasta Salad From Del Monte

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise or 1/2 cup salad dressing
• 1/4 cup sliced green onion
• 3 tablespoons seafood cocktail sauce (or 1 full tsp chinese chili-puree w/garlic and 3 tb ketchup)
• 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
• 12 ounces shrimp or 12 ounces surimi
• 1 (12 ounce) can del monte asparagus (however i prefer a full pound of properly cooked fresh asparagus)
• 1 cup uncooked pasta shells or 1 cup pasta elbows (i use bow-tie)

Recipe

• 1 measure pasta, cook, drain, cool.
• 2 combine mayo, onions, seafood sauce, worcestershire sauce.
• 3 fold into seafood and asparagus.
• 4 this is a zesty salad depending on how you mix the seafood cocktail sauce.
• 5 making your own seafood sauce with chinese chili-garlic puree will produce a potent dressing that will overpower the asparagus unless test-tasting is done and needed menu adjustments are made with added ketchup and mayo.
• 6 smokers prefer the chinese chili-garlic-puree while the more sensitive palate of the non-smoker might find the original coctail sauce based recipe is fine-- several"victims" here have suggested adding horseradish sauce to the coctail sauce ymmv.
• 7 yodar.