Ingredients
- 2 ripe avocado halves
- 8 oz (225g) chopped fresh ripe mango
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- ½ finely chopped red onion
- 4 chopped fresh chives
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 lb (450g) fresh lump crabmeat
- 1 tablespoon honey
- Lemon wedges, for garnish
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
Method
- Stir the orange peel, orange juice, honey and lime juice together and whisk in the oil.
- Season to taste and leave the dressing for 15 minutes so the flavors can blend.
- Pick the crabmeat over and separate it into chunks.
- Toss the mango, red onion and crabmeat together gently in a bowl and stir in the dressing.
- Put an avocado half on each serving plate and fill the cavity with the crab mixture.
- Sprinkle the chives on top and serve right away, garnished with the lemon wedges.
Notes
- Fresh flowers are perfect to garnish this delicious crab salad recipe. And many other seafood salad recipes. This is not a necessary ingredient and you might prefer not to use the flowers. Some kinds of flowers are edible and others are toxic so make sure you know what you're using!
- The lemon wedges make a good garnish and some people like to add extra acid, in the form of lemon juice, to a seafood salad recipe. The dressing on this one is honey, orange and lime-based so it might be too sweet for some palates.
- This wonderful fresh crabmeat salad makes a beautiful appetizer or you could make a complete lunch of it by serving some homemade potato salad on the side and perhaps adding a few lettuce leaves underneath the avocado halves.
