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Avocado With Groundnut Dressing Recipe

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Ingredients

Salt, depending on the saltiness of the crab meat
4 Ripe avocados
2 Lemons
1 pn White pepper
8 Tb mayonnaise
15 oz Crab meat 1 lb Fresh crab meat
1/2 c Finely minced, peeled celery stalks
1 Head iceberg lettuce
4 To 6 drops Worcestershire sauce
1 pn Cayenne 1 dr To 2 drops Tabasco

Directions

Step #1 1.
Step #2 Split the avocados in half lengthwise & remove the pits.
Step #3 With a melon-ball cutter, carefully enlarge the cavity toward the stem end.
Step #4 2.
Step #5 With a fork, mash the avocado pulp which was removed.
Step #6 3.
Step #7 Mix the pulp with 4 tbs.
Step #8 of the mayonnaise, salt if needed, pepper & cayenne or Tabasco.
Step #9 carefully fold in the crab meat & the celery.
Step #10 4.
Step #11 Divide the crab mixture among the eight avocado halves.
Step #12 5.
Step #13 Mix the Worcestershire sauce with the remaining 4 tbs.
Step #14 mayonnaise.
Step #15 With a pastry bag or a cone made from wax paper, pipe approximately 1/2 tbs.
Step #16 of the mayonnaise mixture on each filled avocado half.
Step #17 6.
Step #18 Remove the outside leaves of the iceberg lettuce.
Step #19 Arrange the leaves on a serving platter.
Step #20 Cut the inside part of the lettuce into very thin strips & make 8 small nests on the leaves lining the serving platter.
Step #21 Place an avocado half on each nest.
Step #22 7.
Step #23 Cut each lemon in quarters & garnish the serving platter with the slices of lemon.
Step #24 Serve.
Step #25 If desired, offer extra mayonnaise separately.
Step #26 CHEF'S SECRET: When you buy avocados, if pressed carefully, they should not be soft but, should give about the same resist-ance as an orange.
Step #27 Once at home, pack each avocado in a brown paper bag & leave them at about room temp overnight.
Step #28 Of course, chill before serving.
Step #29 If you use canned crab meat, it is advisable to pick it over.
Step #30 Sometimes you may find a small piece of the shell.
Step #31 Definitely taste it for saltiness.
Step #32 Certain brands improve with a quick rinsing with water.
Step #33 If you have to rinse it, don't do it under the faucet.
Step #34 Place the meat in a sieve & dip the sieve in a small amount of water.
Step #35 Loosen the meat with one finger, then remove the sieve from the water & shake the meat dry.
Step #36 The flavor will not be destroyed, but the saltiness of the canning liquid will be gone.
Step #37 Enlarging the cavity of the avocados with a melon-ball cutter has two purposes; you have the subtle taste of the pulp in the crab mixture, & it is easier to arrange the filling without making it messy.
Step #38 Definitely peel the celery stalks for this dish with a potato peeler so that no strings get into the salad.
Step #39 The celery is needed for its crunchy texture to counterbalance the softness of the avocado and mayonnaise & the fleshy chewiness of the crab meat.
Step #40 If you do not care for the taste of celery, you can substitute peeled, seeded, finely sliced cucumber.
Step #41 Makes 8 servings.
Step #42 From "The Chef's Secret Cookbook", Quadrangle Books, Louis Szathmary, Chicago.
Step #43 1972.
Step #44 Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; March 14 1993.
Step #45 --.
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