Chilli crab salad with grapefruit and avocado
Starter: serves 4. Total time: 30 minutes
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1 pink or red grapefruit, rind and all pith removed with a knife, then neatly segmented and seeds picked out
1 just-ripe avocado, peeled and sliced
4-5 heaped tbsp of fresh white crab meat (the brown is not used here)
For the dressing
To cook the crab: Boil water that has been added 50 g salt per litre. Add the crab when the water boils rapidly. The cooking time for crab is 15 minutes for the first 500 g and then 10 minutes for the next 500 g. It's done when the small claws can be easily removed. Remove the crab from the water; place it on its back to cool off. This prevents the juices from running out
To make the dressing, place all the ingredients in a liquidiser (preferably) or food processor and whiz to a pale green sludge. Decant into a bowl and allow the flavours to mingle. Neatly arrange the lettuce, grapefruit, avocado and crab upon four individual plates and spoon the dressing over. Serve at once.
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