For ➍1 long red chili, seeded & finely chopped
200 g cooked crab meat
1 ts lime juice, plus extra for squeezing
150 g rocket salad
1 ripe avocado, stone removed
1-2 ts chopped fresh chives
dressing:
2 tbs mirin*
½ ts wasabi paste**
1 tbs rice vinegar
4 drops sesame oil
½ ts sea salt or ¼ ts table salt
In a bowl, whisk together the mirin, wasabi, rice vinegar, sesame oil and salt to make a dressing.
Set aside 4 ts of the dressing to another bowl large enough to fit the salad in later.
To the first amount of dressing, add the finely chopped chili. Then add the crab meat. Mix thoroughly with a fork.
To the small amount of dressing in the other bowl, add the lime juice, salad leaves and stir well to mix.
Arrange salad on 4 plates.
Spoon a quarter of the crab mixture into a ramekin, pressing down to fit it all in, then turn out onto one of the four plates. Repeat with the remaining crab meat for the other 3 plates.
Using a ts, scoop out curls of avocado and dot around on top of the salad on the plates. Squeeze over a little lime juice. Sprinkle the chopped chives over the mounds of crab.
Serve with a small mound of rice, if necessary.
Set aside 4 ts of the dressing to another bowl large enough to fit the salad in later.
To the first amount of dressing, add the finely chopped chili. Then add the crab meat. Mix thoroughly with a fork.
To the small amount of dressing in the other bowl, add the lime juice, salad leaves and stir well to mix.
Arrange salad on 4 plates.
Spoon a quarter of the crab mixture into a ramekin, pressing down to fit it all in, then turn out onto one of the four plates. Repeat with the remaining crab meat for the other 3 plates.
Using a ts, scoop out curls of avocado and dot around on top of the salad on the plates. Squeeze over a little lime juice. Sprinkle the chopped chives over the mounds of crab.
Serve with a small mound of rice, if necessary.
*Use sherry instead.
**Wasabi is close to horseradish which might be used instead.
A more genuine Japanese recipe for a starter with crab is Japanese leeks with crab.
