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  • Creamy winter citrus & crab salad

    Creamy winter citrus & crab salad

    [donotprint]Winter salad with citrus and creamy yogurt dressing

    [/donotprint]Creamy winter citrus salad with Crab

    For four:
    1 dungeness crab, picked for meat (or about 8 legs/1.25 lbs in-shell)
    2 small, tasty oranges
    2 grapefruit
    1 ripe avocado
    1/2 C pepitas (pumpkin seeds, raw preferably)
    3T plain greek yogurt
    1 shallot
    Juice of 1 lemon
    1 T good, mild olive oil
    bunch watercress
    bunch frisee

    Pick the crab meat and mince the shallot. Toast the pepitas in a hot pan, moving constantly for a few minutes. Zest the oranges and grapefruit a bit to get about 1-2 tsp of zest into a small bowl. Section the fruits by slicing the stem/flower ends off and cutting the pith away. Hold the fruit in your hand and cut* along the membranes to section the fruit out.

    Drain the excess juice into the zest bowl, and add the yogurt, shallot, lemon juice, olive oil and a bit of salt. Whisk together and let stand. Slice your avocado thinly and portion 1/4 for each serving. Dress the frisee and watercress in the creamy citrus dressing, and assemble the citrus segments, crab, avocado and pepitas on top.

    *If you’re afraid of doing this, watch a youtube video; if you’re still afraid, cut them in rounds instead.