Summer Crab Salad

When it is really hot and humid outside nothing is better than a cold salad with fresh seasonal produce.  This is a simple salad, best eaten at room temperature (or cold) and tastes better if it sits in longer in the dressing.  If you are not a crab fan, it can easily be interchanged with shrimp, grilled chicken, lobster meat, scallops or even hard-boiled eggs.

Ingredients:

1 hass Avocado, diced

1/2 pint grape tomatoes, halved

16 oz of chunk or flaked crab meat

1 quarter of a red onion

5 springs of cilantro

1 lime

1/4 cup of olive oil

salt, pepper, garlic powder and cayenne pepper to taste ( I like it spicy so more pepper for me)

Method:

Wash and drain the crab meat and marinade it  with the zest of one lime, garlic powder and cayenne.

Chop the avocado and tomatoes and set aside.

In a food processor or blender, make the dressing by pulsing together the onion, cilantro, juice of 1 lime and the oil.

To assemble the salad, add the dressing to the tomatoes and avocado and finally toss in the crab.

Plate up and enjoy !!!