Thai Crab & Mango Salad
Simple fresh ingredients make for the best family meals in my book. If you can eat more whole foods and less processed foods, you’ll feel better, lose unwanted body fat, and look good. It also makes for better overall health physically and mentally for you and your entire family. This dish has a lot of ingredients mostly purchased from my local Asian market. It is well worth the time and effort to make this recipe as the aroma, taste, and multiple textures are amazing.
The fresh combinations of crab, mango, lemon grass, sesame seed leaves, Thai red chili, ginger, mint and cilantro are amazing in themselves. When you add fragrant Thai fish sauce, sesame seeds, garlic, and lime juice, we are talking overkill for your taste buds. It’s a fresh and delicious dish, you will crave. Enjoy!
Thai Crab & Mango Salad
Serves 4
Ingredients:
For the salad:
2 cups white crab meat
4 cups baby spinach or arugula
1 large ripe mango peeled and sliced into strips (buy at your local Asian market to get the best and most juicy mango you can find)
1 stem lemon grass, ends trimmed and outer layer discarded, inner stem very finely chopped
3 sesame seed leaves (Asian market) rolled into a cigar shape and very finely shredded
1 tablespoon finely chopped chives
1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds
1 tablespoon chopped roasted peanuts
For the dressing:
2 small fresh Thai red chilies, halved and deseeded and finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
1 inch piece fresh root ginger, peeled and grated
3 tablespoon freshly chopped cilantro
3 tablespoon freshly chopped mint
2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce
2 tablespoons sesame oil
2 limes, zest and juice of
1 level teaspoon dark brown sugar
How to make:
Make the dressing by adding all the ingredients together into a small bowl, whisk together.
Place the crab meat in a medium size bowl and pour over ¾ of the dressing, stir to combine together.
Place the spinach leaves and mango into a large salad bowl, pour over the remaining dressing, toss to coat, then pile on the crab meat, sprinkle over the lemon grass, sesame leaves, chives, sesame seeds and chopped peanuts. Serve.