Special Occasions Recipes - Spicy Crab Salad Recipe

  
 

Special Occasions Recipes - Spicy Crab Salad Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 2

  • large lettuce leaves

  • Chinese leaves, shredded

  • 250 g/8 oz cooked crab meat

  • 2 tomatoes, cut into wedges

  • 2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and cut into wedges 

Dressing:

  • 125 ml/4 fl oz Mayonnaise

  • 50 ml/2 fl oz chili sauce

  • 2 spring onions, chopped

  • 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

  • 1 teaspoon tomato puree

  • dash of Worcestershire sauce

  • 50 ml/2 fl oz double cream, whipped

  • salt and pepper

Method:

  1. First make the dressing. Combine the mayonnaise, chili sauce, spring onions, parsley, tomato puree and Worcestershire sauce in a bowl, and season to taste with salt and pepper.

  2. Stir well to mix, then fold in the whipped cream. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

  3. Line a serving platter with the lettuce leaves and make an even layer of shredded Chinese leaves in the centre. Pile the crab meat on top.

  4. Arrange the tomato and egg wedges around the crabmeat. Spoon some of the dressing over the crab and serve the rest separately.