![]() ![]() Place the crab down the middle and top with sriracha, spicy mayo, and furikake or sesame seeds. Add a little salt and pepper for flavor and enjoy! Crab Salad Cucumber BoatsĪnother low-calorie, high-protein option is to serve your crab salad in a cucumber boat! Peel the cucumbers, cut lengthwise, and scoop out the center. Halve an avocado, remove the seed, and place the crab in the hole where the seed was. Crab Salad Stuffed Avocadoįor a high-protein option, you can serve your crab salad stuffed in an avocado. These are great for quick lunches, snacks, or even as appetizers. You can also serve your crab salad on a hoagie roll, hero roll, or even on a croissant. I love serving the crab salad on Hawaiian rolls because they are so soft and slightly sweet. Crab Salad SandwichesĬrab salad sandwiches are a great alternative to tuna sandwiches. It is also a great side-dish for simple weeknight meals to serve along with sandwiches, wraps, or burgers. This is a great side dish for potlucks or neighborhood BBQs. You can either make our Hawaiian Macaroni Salad and add imitation crab meat, OR you can make this recipe and add a cup or two of cooked your favorite shaped pasta. This is much like our Hawaiian Macaroni Salad recipe. We also like using the whole-grain “Food Should Taste Good” chips that you can get at Costco. We like serving it with club crackers or Ritz crackers. One really easy way to do this is to chop the crab in a food processor or blender. If you are making it as a dip, you will want to chop the crab up into smaller pieces (so it can fit on a cracker). You can serve Neptune salad tossed with spiral pasta, or it can be served on a bed of lettuce. If you want to make a more complex crab salad (or “Neptune Salad”), make the recipe below and then add any or all of the following: It really depends on what region of the country you are in. Others may say that any kind of crab salad qualifies as “Neptune salad”. Some may argue that Neptune salad is more complex than a simple crab salad, and more of a “seafood salad”. Simply put, Neptune salad is another term for “crab salad”. This crab salad recipe can also be used as a dip on crackers, along with pasta in a pasta salad, or as a delicious sandwich filling. You can easily dress this recipe up or down, depending on what you are serving. When serving plain, you can serve on lettuce leaves or individual glass dishes (Martini glasses are really pretty if you want to be fancy with it). Everyone wanted to know the secret to why it was so good, and really, there was no secret at all! It is the easiest, most simple crab salad recipe ever. As mentioned above, we would serve this in the restaurant I worked at in Hawaii and it was always a crowd favorite. If you want to add any extras, feel free. Not to say that the above mentioned add-ins are bad, they just alter the taste too much in my opinion. Some people like to add all sorts of fancy stuff to their crab salad (onions, dill, chopped cucumber, cumin, etc.) but, I like my crab salad SUPER simple. If you are looking for a cheaper alternative, imitation crab might be the best way to go. We made this crab salad with fresh crab at the Oregon coast last year and it was absolutely delicious! It was just a little expensive. But have you noticed the price of real crab the past few years? It’s outrageous! It’s really up to you if you want to spend the extra money. Of course if you make this with real crab it is going to taste the best. Imitation crab meat is often found in California rolls or simply eaten on its own as a snack. It is more commonly found than actual crab meat and is MUCH cheaper. Most crab salad is made from imitation crab meat (aka “krab meat” or “surimi”). Ironically, most crab salad (including this recipe) isn’t made from actual crab. I have had it all three ways and I honestly can’t pick a favorite. You can either have it plain, as a crab dip, as crab macaroni salad, or as a crab salad sandwich. Lines with a lighter background are required to craft the direct ingredients.This is how we would make crab salad at the restaurant I worked at in Hawaii and it was always a favorite! I love making this crab salad as a quick snack or an easy lunch.Lines with a darker background are the direct ingredients for this recipe.The remaining lines indicate how many of each ingredient are required to reach each mastery level. ![]() If Level 1 reads "2" and Level 2 reads "5", that means the player must cook the dish twice for the first mastery star and five additional times for the second star. The first line (Mastery) indicates how many times the player must cook this dish for each mastery level.Ingredients and Mastery Main article: Mastery Ingredient
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