Simple Crab Salad
Recipe

For a variety of quick meal ideas, see the easy menu planner below along with some simple ingredient exchanges that allow you to make several different crab salads from this one quick recipe.

2-3 servings

4 Ingredients Needed:

cooked crabmeat – 2 cups (flaked or roughly chopped)
(use pre-packaged variety or canned)

canned mandarin oranges – 1/2 cup
(reserve juice for dressing the salad)
(you may leave sections whole and cut sections in half)

fennel – 1/2 cup thinly sliced and chopped

fresh parmesan cheese – as desired
(you will be shaving or slicing finely over each salad)

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1. In a mixing bowl, combine the crabmeat, orange sections and the fennel.

2. Drizzle a bit of the juice from the oranges over the crab salad. Toss again, taste and add salt and pepper if desired.

3. When serving this easy crab salad, shave or slice the parmesan cheese over each salad as desired.


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Quick Meals - Menu Planner:

Main Meal Ideas:

** Serve this simple crab salad recipe scooped into grilled Portobello mushroom caps with warm wild rice seasoned with chopped fresh cilantro on the side.

** This easy crab salad also works well as a topping over udon, soba or your favorite pasta noodles with steamed asparagus tossed with lemon juice, olive oil and pine nuts on the side.

Light Meal Ideas (suitable for lunch or a light dinner):

** For a lighter meal, serve this easy seafood salad in radicchio lettuce leaf cups with a side of mango and pear slices. The slightly bitter taste of radicchio goes well with the sweetness of the crabmeat.

** You can also serve this quick crab salad over a bed of spinach leaves and rim the salad plate with chow mein noodles.

** Or make a simple presentation by serving salad over pear and avocado slices with whole grain rolls or crackers.

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Try these easy ingredient exchanges:

* Instead of Mandarin Oranges: try Apples (dress salad with a little apple juice) or Pineapple

* Instead of Parmesan Cheese: try Goat Cheese or Gouda Cheese



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Simple Crab Salad Recipe to Seafood Salads