Peekytoe Crab Salad With Spring Vegetables Recipes

Steps:

• Bring a medium pot of water to a boil; generously salt water and return to a boil. Prepare an ice-water bath; set aside. Place leeks in boiling water and cook until crisp-tender, about 1 minute. Drain and transfer to ice-water bath to cool. Drain, pat dry, and set aside. Repeat process with asparagus (cooking about 30 seconds), ramps (cooking about 1 minute), zucchini (cooking about 30 seconds), peas (cooking about 30 seconds), and fava beans (cooking about 1 minute). Peel fava beans and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, mix together crab, mayonnaise, and olive oil. Divide crab mixture evenly between four chilled serving plates, spreading so that it is 1/4-inch high on the plate. Arrange leeks, asparagus, zucchini, peas, fava beans, and fennel on top of crab mixture; garnish with lily bulb petals, radishes, chile, and nasturtium buds. Drizzle with vinaigrette and sprinkle with sea salt; serve immediately.

Steps:

• Whisk 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar and 1 teaspoon each dijon mustard and honey in a large bowl; whisk in 1/4 cup olive oil. Shave or thinly slice 1 bunch baby carrots, 6 radishes and 1/4 red onion; add to the bowl along with 6 cups torn lettuce and 1/4 cup each sunflower seeds and torn mint; season with salt and pepper and toss.

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• For the dressing, combine the white wine vinegar, horseradish and lemon extract in a mixing bowl and stir to combine. Whisk in the olive oil and season to taste with salt.
• Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Set up a bowl of ice water next to the stove and set a colander inside the ice water (so no ice is inside the colander). Stir a little salt into the water.
• Add the vegetables in separate groups to the boiling water and cook each batch until just tender, about a minute; each vegetable should still have a little snap. Leave all the vegetables to cool and mix in the ice water after cooking.
• Drain the vegetables well and pat dry. Add the cooked vegetables, radishes and cucumber to the bowl with the dressing and toss well to combine. Season to taste with salt. Transfer to a platter and garnish with the dill and mint or pea tendrils.

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• To make the crisps, preheat the oven to 425 degrees. In a small bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and cumin seeds. Add the vinegar, butter and water and mix thoroughly, but do not overmix.
• Working in batches and using a pastry brush, dab very thin 2-inch discs of batter onto a nonstick baking sheet. Bake until golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
• To make the crab salad, break up the lumps with your fingers, removing any shell or cartilage but leaving the crab as intact as possible. Refrigerate. In a blender, combine the tomatoes, shallots, garlic, lemon juice, oil, vinegar and basil and blend until smooth. Season to taste.
• Slowly stir the tomato sauce into the crab meat. Coat the crab, but do not soak it. Place 3 scoops of crab salad on each of 6 plates. Place a cumin crisp between each scoop. Garnish with the mache and the mangoes.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine crab meat, fennel fronds, serrano chile, 3 tablespoons olive oil, and salt; set aside.
• Drizzle bread with remaining 1/4 cup olive oil. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add bread and cook, turning once, until golden and crisp on each side.
• Remove bread from skillet and spread one side of each slice with aioli; top with crab mixture. Cut each slice of bread into quarters and top crab with a dollop of aioli. Serve immediately with lemon wedges.

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown and crisp. Drain, crumble and set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix together the imitation crab, bacon and peas. Stir onion powder into mayonnaise, and then stir into the crab mixture until well blended. Cover and refrigerate. Top with diced tomatoes before serving.

Steps:

• Melt butter in skillet over moderate heat Add bread crumbs, salt and pepper, heat till toasted Remove from heat and cool Place crabmeat in large bowl, add lemon juice, toss, mix in sour cream, 1/2 cup flour and bread crumbs Form into patties Coat patty with flour Heat vegetable oil until hot over moderately high heat Add crab cakes and cook until nicely browned, about 2 minutes on each side