Best Cucumber Crab Salad Recipes

CALIFORNIA CRAB STACK ON JAPANESE PICKLED CUCUMBER-MACHE SALAD DRESSED WITH TARRAGON DIJON DRESSING

Steps:

• Combine the sourdough bread crumbs and Dungeness crab meat, set aside. Combine remaining ingredients, except olive oil, and mix thoroughly. Gently fold in the crab and bread crumb mixture. Shape into patties approximately 1/2-inch thick. Heat olive oil in a non-stick saute pan. Cook crab cakes over medium heat to a golden brown about 2 to 3 minutes. Set aside.
• Combine all ingredients except flower confetti and refrigerate.
• Whisk together all ingredients and refrigerate.
• Place 1/4 cup of the salad mixture in the center of each of 4 plates. Place a crab cake on top of each salad. Drizzle each plate with Tarragon Vinaigrette and sprinkle with a garnish of flower petal confetti.

CUCUMBER CRAB PASTA SALAD

Steps:

• Please note: cucumber and crab amounts are to your preference. The amounts listed here are a pretty good veggie/crab to noodle ratio.
• Do not use noodles larger than the medium shells. You can use smaller shell noodles, though.
• Boil noodles. Rinse well and let drain for quite a while. Stir them often when draining them to make sure all the water is out of the shells. The less water on them, the better the salad dressing sticks to them.
• Slice cucumber (with or without skin) to your preference. I typically slice it in half lengthwise, then do about 1/8 thin slices.
• Chop the imitation crab into chunks and add to the noodles.
• Sprinkle with salt and dill over entire mixture and stir. Dill should have a nice amount of "speckling" throughout the dish after stirring.
• If serving right away, pour approx 1/2 the bottle of dressing onto the cucumber crab mixture and stir, then slowly add more to lightly cover everything. You don't want the noodles sopping wet with dressing, but you want a nice thin coat on everything in the bowl.
• Chill until serving.
• If you are taking this to a pot luck or making it ahead, assemble everything but the dressing and keep refridgerated. Pour the dressing on just before serving.
• Keep dressing handy for left-overs because it tends to get sucked into the noodles if it sits in the fridge for any length of time.
• Optional: For presentation you can decorate with cherry tomatoes on top and sprinkle with dill for garnish.

WASABI LIME CRAB SALAD IN CUCUMBER CUPS

Steps:

• Prepare cucumber cups:
• Cut cucumbers crosswise into generous 1/2-inch-thick slices. Cut a fluted round from each slice with cookie cutter, then scoop out some flesh from center of each round with melon-ball cutter or a small spoon, creating an indentation but leaving bottom intact.
• Prepare filling:
• Whisk together mayonnaise and wasabi, then whisk in lime juice and salt.
• Cut radishes into very thin slices with slicer. Halve slices, then cut crosswise into very thin strips. Trim radish sprouts to 1-inch lengths, measuring from top of sprout, and discard remaining stems. (If using pea shoots, cut sections with leaves into 1-inch pieces.)
• Stir together crab, wasabi mayonnaise, radish strips, and radish sprouts, then put a small spoonful of filling into each cucumber cup.

CUCUMBER, CORN, AND CRAB SALAD

Steps:

• Sprinkle cucumber lightly with salt, and place in a fine sieve set over a medium bowl. Cover with plastic wrap, and place in refrigerator 30 minutes. Rinse and drain well; discarding liquid.
• Combine crabmeat, corn, onion, avocado, cucumber, and 1/2 cup cucumber vinaigrette in a large bowl, and stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Store in an airtight container in refrigerator until ready to serve.

CRAB-CUCUMBER SALAD IN TOMATO CUPS

Steps:

• Gently mix together all ingredients; except tomatoes and chill.
• Serve in tomato cups.
• If you can't make the cups;put salad on a bed of sliced tomatoes.

CUCUMBER, CORN, AND CRAB SALAD

Steps:

• Sprinkle the cucumber lightly with salt, and place in a fine sieve set over a medium bowl. Cover with plastic wrap, and place in the refrigerator 30 minutes. Rinse and drain well; discard the liquid.
• Combine the crabmeat, corn, onion, avocado, cucumber, and 1/2 cup cucumber vinaigrette in a large bowl, and stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
• Cucumber Vinaigrette
• Place the cucumber, vinegar, mustard, and tarragon in a food processor, and process until smooth. With the machine running, drizzle in the grapeseed oil; process until emulsified. Season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate, covered, up to 2 days.

CRAB SALAD ON CUCUMBER ROUNDS

Steps:

• Rinse lemon grass. Cut off and discard tough tops and root ends; peel off and discard tough outer green layers of stalks down to tender white parts. Finely chop enough to make 1/4 cup.
• Rinse kaffir lime leaves. Stack three or four leaves at a time and cut crosswise into very fine shreds.
• In a bowl, mix lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, crab, shallots, carrot, cilantro, mint, and green onion.
• In a small bowl, mix lime juice, chili paste, fish sauce (but not salt, if using), and sugar.
• Just before serving, stir lime-juice mixture into crab mixture. If not using fish sauce, add salt to taste.
• Rinse cucumber and cut crosswise into about 24 rounds about 1/4 inch thick. Top each slice with a scant tablespoon crab mixture.

COUSCOUS AND CRAB SALAD WITH CUCUMBER JUICE AND MINT

Steps:

• Place 3/4 cup of the cucumber juice in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the couscous, cover and remove from heat. Let stand for 5 minutes. Uncover and stir with a fork. Place in a bowl and set aside to cool.
• Add the crab meat, cherry tomatoes, onion, mint and lemon and lime rinds and toss to coat. Toss in the remaining cucumber juice. Season with the salt and pepper. Divide among 4 plates and serve immediately.

CRAB, TOMATO, AND CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Pick shells from crab. 2. Combine vegetables in bowl. 3. In another bowl wisk to combine oil, vineager, lemon, red pepper, sugar. 4. Toss liquid with vegetables. 5. Fold in crab and tarragon leaves. 6. Season with salt and pepper. 7. Evenly distribute salad into 4 lettuce leaves garnish with lemon wedge

CUCUMBER CRAB SALAD

Steps:

• Slice and dry the cucumbers well(remember to slice thin), also drain the crab.
• Heat a small skillet and brush with oil. Add the sesame seeds and toast them, stirring constantly until lightly browned, then grind with a morter and pestle.
• Lightly toss all ingredients together in a bowl and serve.

JAPANESE CUCUMBER AND CRAB SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Mix the cucumbers with salt. Place in a colander, and the salt and water will drain off. Drain for about 45 minutes.
• 2. Mix with the crab.
• 3. Make a dressing of the light soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, and sugar. Toss with the crab and serve.

LOW CARB SPICY SRIRACHA CRAB AND CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• First peel the skin from your cucumber.
• Next, use a spiralizer to turn your cucumber into even more refreshing noodles (or you can just chop it, like I do).
• Drizzle the noodles very lightly with optional rice vinegar.
• In a small bowl, combine the mayo and Sriracha to make "spicy mayo".
• Shred the crab, or chop it up with a knife.
• Combine the crab with the spicy mayo and put on top of the cucumber.
• Top with avocado.
• Garnish with panko breadcrumbs and dig in!

CUCUMBER CRAB SALAD

Steps:

• Add sugar and soy sauce to rice vinegar and mix to dissolve the sugar. Pour this mixture over your shredded cucumbers, stir and let it marinate in the fridge for 10-15 minutes. When chilled, place cucumber shreds in the colander in your sink, to drain. Mix crab meat with mayonnaise, add cucumber shreds, stir well and, presto!.