Salads Recipes - Crab Salad Recipe

Ingredients

Serve 4

• 1 large cooked crab, about 1 kg/2 lb

• 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice

• 300 ml/1/2 pint Mayonnaise

• about 250 g/8 oz mixed salad leaves (frise, red oakleaf, lollo rosso, batavia, lamb's lettuce, rocket, chicory)

• handful of herb sprigs (chervil, dill, parsley, coriander)

• 3 spring onions, finely shredded

• 1/2 cucumber, peeled and finely diced

• salt and pepper

• lemon wedges, to garnish

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Method:

1. Remove the white and brown meat from the crab and flake into a bowl.

2. Add the lemon juice and mayonnaise to the crab, adjusting the quantities according to taste, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly.

3. Just before serving, arrange the salad leaves on a serving platter or on individual plates. Scatter over the herb sprigs, the spring onion shreds and the cucumber.

4. Place the crab meat on to the platter or plates. Serve at once, garnished with lemon wedges.