Crab Louis

Preparation info
  • Four

    servings.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1969

  • About

Ingredients

  • 1 pound lump crab meat or, if unavailable, canned crab meat
  • Lettuce leaves
  • ¾ cup Louis dressing

Method

  1. Pick over the crab meat, if necessary, to remove bits of cartilage and shell.

  2. Arrange lettuce leaves on four chilled plates and add equal portions of crab on each. Spoon the dressing over the crab.

  3. Garnish the plates with hard-cooked eggs, tomatoes, and stuffed olives and serve.