Recipe: Jumbo Crab Salad w/Mango & Avacado (looked like a Bayou dish)!

[BamaLuver]

Jumbo Lump Crab Salad with Mango and Avacado

1 lb jumbo lump crab meat

1 mango, diced

1 avacado, diced

1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced

4 green onions, sliced on the bias

1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped

4 cups mixed greens

white balsamic vinaigrette (recipe below)

Pick crab meat- add other ingredients, except the greens and dressing. Lightly toss to mix, add dressing to taste. Lightly toss again and serve over bed of mixed greens

White Balsamic Dressing

2 cups olive oil

1 cup white balsamic vinegar

1 tb dijon mustard

3 tb white sugar

salt and pepper

juice of 1/2 lemon

Blend or whisk together ingredients. (best results when blended)

 

[bayoutider]

I put my stamp of approval on this dish. I just made it for lunch with a couple of modifications, I didn't have white balsamic vinegar so I substituted champagne vinegar and 1 tsp honey. I also omitted the cilantro completely.

The white balsamic vinegar is used so the bright colors of the crab, mango, cucumber and avocado won't change. You can freely substitute any white vinegar and a little honey for about the same results. Even plain red wine vinegar won't change the color that much but regular balsamic certainly will.

 

[BamaLuver]

That is entirely NOT fair to have fresh crabmeat at hand any time you want it!

 

[bayoutider]

That is entirely NOT fair to have fresh crabmeat at hand any time you want it!

Eat your heart out. I still have at least a dozen 1lb bags in the freezer. It wasn't that much fun boiling and picking the crabs to put in the freezer though.

 

[JH-ATL]

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I give up........where did/how did you get enough crabs for that much crab meat??????????????

Did you go to Bayou LaBatre and rent some "young" Vietnamese girls to help with the picking?????????

:biggrin2::biggrin2::biggrin2::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin2::biggrin2:

 

[bayoutider]

I live in sight of the Caribbean. Myself and a friend run a few crab traps when the moon is fullest. Fairly easy to gather 2-3 dozen per day, the boiling and picking is the hardest part. we have something like an old wringer washer rigged up that squeezes most of the meat out reducing the time and worn out fingers a lot.

 

[JH-ATL]

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Please go into more detail on your mechanical machine marvil!!!!!!!!!!!