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Crab Louis Recipe


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Ingredients
  • Salt; to taste
  • 1/4 ts Finely-sliced seeded habanero
  • & flaked
  • 1 Ripe California avocado -;
  • 2 tb sliced scallion greens
  • 1 sm Jicama
  • OR jalapeno chili; or to taste
  • Freshly-ground black pepper; to taste
  • 1 Plum tomato; seeded, sliced
  • 1/4 lb Lump crab meat -; , picked over,
  • 2 tb Fresh lime juice
  • 1 Seedless cucumber -;
  • 1/2 ts Minced garlic clove

Directions
  • Step #1 Peel jicama & cut in half.
  • Step #2 Finely chop half of jicama, or enough to measure 1/2 c, & shred remaining half, or enough to measure 1/3 c.
  • Step #3 Reserve any remaining for another use.
  • Step #4 In a small bowl stir together jicama, 1 1/2 tbsps lime juice, chili, crab, scallion, tomato & 1/4 tsp garlic.
  • Step #5 Spice up seviche with salt & pepper.
  • Step #6 Halve avocado, reserving half for another use.
  • Step #7 In small bowl with a fork mash remaining avocado, remaining 1 1/2 tsps lime juice, & remaining 1/4 tsp garlic with salt to taste until smooth.
  • Step #8 Seviche & avocado mixtures may be made 4 hrs ahead & chilled separately, their surfaces covered with plastic wrap.
  • Step #9 Cut cucumber crosswise diagonally into twenty-four 1/4-inch-thick slices.
  • Step #10 Top each cucumber slice with 1/2 tsp avocado mixture & 1 tsp seviche mixture.
  • Step #11 This recipe yields 24 hors d'oeuvres, serving 6.
  • Step #12 --.
  • Enjoy the Crab Louis recipe

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