Best Wasabi Lime Crab Salad In Cucumber Cups Recipes

Curried Crab Salad Lettuce Cups image

Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Categories appetizer

Time 20m

Yield 12 lettuce cups

Number Of Ingredients 10

1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice, plus wedges for serving
1 teaspoon Madras curry powder
8 ounces jumbo lump crabmeat, picked over
1 Persian cucumber, seeded and finely diced
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 1/2 Fresno chile peppers (1 seeded and finely diced and 1/2 sliced into thin rounds)
2 scallions, thinly sliced
Kosher salt
12 leaves Little Gem lettuce

Steps:

Combine the mayonnaise, lime juice and curry powder in a bowl. Stir in the crabmeat, cucumber, cilantro and diced chile. Add the scallions, reserving some of the dark green parts for topping. Season with salt.
Divide among the lettuce cups. Top with the reserved scallion greens and the sliced chile. Serve with lime wedges.

Wasabi Cucumber Salad image

Provided by chia2160

Categories Vegetable

Time 10m

Yield 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 1/2 teaspoons dry wasabi powder (or to taste)
2 cucumbers or 1 English cucumber
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon salt & freshly ground black pepper
2 scallions, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds (or use black sesame seeds)

Steps:

Mix the wasabi with 1/2 teaspoon warm water in the bottom of a mixing bowl and let it stand for 5 minutes.
Peel the cucumbers, cut each one in half lengthwise, and use a melon baller or spoon to scoop out the seeds. slice thinly widthwise.( if using english hothouse just cut in half lengthwise and slice thinly).
Add the vinegar and sugar to the wasabi and whisk until smooth.
Whisk in the sesame oil, salt and pepper. Just before serving, add the cucumbers, green onion, and sesame seeds to the dressing and mix well.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 55.9, Fat 2.4, SaturatedFat 0.4, Sodium 4.5, Carbohydrate 8.6, Fiber 1.2, Sugar 4.8, Protein 1.5

Crab Salad on Cucumber Rounds image

Provided by dicentra

Categories Crab

Time 15m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 13

1 -2 stalk fresh lemongrass (each 10 to 12 in. long) or 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel (yellow part only)
12 kaffir lime leaves, sections (each 1 1/2 to 2 in. long) or 1 tablespoon lime zest (green part only)
1/3 lb shelled cooked crabmeat
1/4 cup thinly slivered shallot
1 tablespoon finely shredded carrot
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint leaves
1 tablespoon chopped green onion
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 1/2 teaspoons thai chili paste (purchased or homemade)
1 teaspoon asian fish sauce or 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
1 teaspoon sugar
8 ounces English cucumbers

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.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 27.8, Fat 0.2, Cholesterol 7.9, Sodium 217.8, Carbohydrate 2.9, Fiber 0.2, Sugar 1.2, Protein 3.9

Wasabi Lime Crab Salad in Cucumber Cups image

Yield Makes about 60 hors d'oeuvres

Number Of Ingredients 10

4 seedless cucumbers (usually plastic-wrapped; 3 1/2 pounds total), peeled
1/4 cup mayonnaise
4 teaspoons wasabi paste (Japanese horseradish paste)
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
3/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
6 medium radishes
1 (3-ounce) container radish sprouts or baby pea shoots
1/2 pound jumbo lump crabmeat, picked over
Special Equipment
a 1 1/2-inch fluted round cookie cutter; a melon-ball cutter (optional); a Japanese Benriner or other adjustable-blade slicer

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.