Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, summer crab salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A cool main dish seafood salad for hot summer days using small salad shrimp and either imitation or real crabmeat. Crab and Shrimp Pasta Salad Rating: Unrated. Summer is in full swing — a great time to make a dish that's not only tasty, but also, easy to transport to beach, pool, or picnic.
Summer Crab Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Summer Crab Salad is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook summer crab salad using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Summer Crab Salad:
- Prepare 2 cups Crab meat
- Get 2 sticks Celery
- Prepare 2 Small sweet peppers
- Take 1/3 cup Mayonnaise
- Prepare 1 tsp Creamy horseradish
- Prepare 1/2 large Lemon to juice
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
For an appetizer, pile it onto crostini or serve as a canapé atop thin slices of crunchy Granny Smith apple or cucumber. For a more casual get-together, blend the crab salad with cream cheese and sour cream for tangy crab dip. Depending on which coast you live on, fresh crab salad will be seasonal in the winter through spring or in the summer through fall. Dungeness crab season begins in mid-November to early December and lasts until summer.
Steps to make Summer Crab Salad:
- Dice the celery and peppers and put in a bowl with the juice of the lemon, stir and add the mayonnaise and the horseradish.
- Add the crabmeat and stir.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Other additional ingredients (not all at the same time) that I've tried and liked: add half a diced cucumber; a teaspoon of capers; dash of cumin, sprinkle of dill, pinch of Old Bay seasoning; whatever you'd like!
- Serve on toast, a muffin, in a bed of mixed greens or in pasta. Top a burger with it! Or use as a side dish!
This is the opposite of Maryland's blue crab season, which begins in April and lasts through mid-December. A wonderful summer salad made with lump crab meat, summer tomatoes, sweet charred roasted corn, cilantro, hot peppers and zesty lime juice. Serve this over mixed greens or tostadas as a main dish or you can put this in martini glasses as a fancy appetizer. This is how we would make crab salad at the restaurant I worked at in Hawaii and it was always a favorite! I love making this crab salad as a quick snack or an easy lunch.
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