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Quick, easy and delicious

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Ingredients

  • 0.5 lb of crab meat
  • 8 large shrimps (whole w/ skin)
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 1 Endive
  • A few leaves of lettuce
  • Fresh scallion
  • 1 Avocado
  • Mayonnaise
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Olive Oil
  • Balsamic vinegar
  • Red wine vinegar
  • Placing rings

Method

  1. Peel and slice finely the garlic
  2. Heat some oil in a pan
  3. Roast the shrimps for 90 seconds
  4. Add salt & pepper, add the garlic
  5. Turn over the shrimps, and roast for another 90 seconds
  6. Take the shrimps out (with the garlic), let it cool a bit
  7. While it cools, prepare the Mayonnaise
  8. Peel the avocado, slice 8 fine long slices, then cut the rest in cibe
  9. Slice the lettuce
  10. Slice the scallion finely
  11. Peel a 8 leaves of the envive, set aside
  12. Slice the rest of the endive
  13. Peel the shrimp
  14. Cut the shrimps, about 7 mm (1/4 of a inch)
  15. Prepare the vinaigrette: 2 tbsp of balsamic vinegar, 1 tbsp of red wine vinegar, salt & pepper, 3 tbsp of olive oil
  16. Mix the shrimps, the garlic from the shrimps, the crab meat and the rest of the ingredients, including salt & pepper, but for the endive leaves, the avocado slices and the vinaigrette
  17. Salt and pepper, add the Mayonnaise
  18. In each plate, layout 4 endive leaves with a avocado slice in each
  19. Place a serving ring onto the endives leaves, fill with the crab mix
  20. Remove the ring, add a few spoons of the vinaigrette on top of it
  21. Serve with a little of bread

A variation with added asparagus. Grill the asparagus 8 mn in a pan with some olive oil, slice the base of the asparagus, insert some in the crab-shrimp mix and some more on the top. You will note here a mix layer of avocado fine slices and a bit of presentation:

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AuthorsPascal Crausaz
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