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Recipe : ** Crab And Watercress Salad

Crab And Watercress Salad
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Course:
Appetizer

Practical information

  • Prep time
    35 min
  • Cooking
    35 min
  • Ready in
    1 h 10
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    High budget
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Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • fine salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 servings watercress
  • watercress mixed with baby spinach or with and other mixed greens
  • extra-virgin olive oil
  • lemon juice
  • ¼ teaspoons garam masala
  • ½ teaspoons roasted sesame seed oil
  • 2 medium leaves
  • fresh basil
  • ½ onion
  • 1 medium carrot
  • 6 to 8 sprigs fresh parsley
  • 1 fresh bay leaf
  • zest and juice from 1/2 lemon
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 kg live crab
  • 10 g to 15 coarse salt
  • 25 g celery
  • 25 g carrot
  • 25 g shallot
  • 25 g leek
  • 250 ml dry white wine

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Place the court-bouillon ingredients (onion, carrot, fresh parsley, fresh bay leaf, zest and juice of half a lemon, dru y white wine and coarse salt) in a large stock pot along with sufficient water for cooking the crab. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes. Increase the heat. When a full boil is achieved, place the crab in the pot. Cook for 6 minutes.
  • 2
    When the crab is cooked, remove from the pot and stand on edge while it cools to drain off any captured liquid. Discard the court-bouillon. When the crab is cool, remove the meat from the shell. There should be about 250 grams of meat. Set the meat aside and discard the shell.
  • 3
    Heat the butter in a small frying pan over high heat. When melted, add the garniture ingredients, season with fine salt and pepper, and cook until they start to brown slightly. Discard the garlic halves. Combine the remaining garniture ingredients with the crab meat.
  • 4
    Place the salad greens in a mixing bowl. Season with fine salt and pepper. Drizzle a little olive oil over the greens and mix. Add a little lemon juice and mix. Divide the salad greens between chilled serving plates.
  • 5
    Add the garam masala, sesame oil, and basil to the crab mixture. Season with salt and pepper. Divide the crab mixture between the serving plates.
  • Ready !



 

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