Crab Salad Recipe
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Sugar Snap Pea and Crab Salad
This flavorful crab salad recipe combines the crunchiness of sugar snap peas and celery with the softness of imitation crab and lettuce. Serve it up for a delightfully fresh lunch or dinner. You can serve it as an appetizer, a side dish, or the main course. It goes well with a nice fresh loaf of bread or a cup of soup. It is a great way to add fresh vegetables to your menu. The imitation crab gives a nice, light seafood flavor to the salad, and adds some substance to the greens.
The homemade apple vinaigrette goes beautifully with the other ingredients in this imitation crab salad recipe. Made with fresh herbs, apple juice, dry mustard and extra virgin olive oil, this vinaigrette offers a nice combination of flavors. It is sweetened just slightly with a little bit of honey. Use a fruit honey if you can get it to complement the apple juice. Many farmers' markets will sell blackberry, orange blossom or other fruit blossom honey. Try one if you can in this delicious dressing.
Sugar snap peas are called "mange tout" in French and that name literally translates to "eat everything" because you eat the outside as well as the peas inside. Sugar snap peas are sweet and tasty; they combine well with the crab, adding color as well as texture to this delicious crab salad. If you do not care for them or they are not available, you could use chopped bell pepper instead.
Crunchy Crab Salad with an Apple Vinaigrette
Ingredients -
2 cups imitation crab meat
2 cups sugar snap peas
6 ribs celery, sliced
Lettuce
For the Dressing:
¼ cup cider vinegar
3 whole fresh basil leaves
⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
¾ teaspoon salt
¼ cup apple juice
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
¼ teaspoon dry mustard
½ cup chopped parsley
1 teaspoon honey
Preparation:
Roughly chop the imitation crab into large pieces.
Boil the sugar snap peas for 30 seconds, and then plunge them into cold water.
Arrange the lettuce on a serving plate.
Combine the crab meat, sugar snap peas, and celery and put this mixture on top of the lettuce leaves.
Combine all the dressing ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Pour this mixture over the top of the crab mixture and serve right away.
(Serves 4)
Photo Description:
This fresh crab salad recipe is perfect when you want to bring the goodness of the garden to the table. Fresh lettuce, pea pods, and other ingredients just make this salad sing. The light dressing adds some zesty flavor to complement the delicate flavor of the imitation crab. This is a beautiful salad, as you can see. Anyone would be pleased to have this plate set in front of them. Serve it up for lunch or dinner with a fresh loaf of bread and you have got a nice, light meal.
