Name: Crab Claw, Cucumber, Lime, Watercress, Coriander, New Potato and Wasabi Mayonnaise Salad
Ingredients: 2 juicy limes; 1 large cucumber; 2 tablespoons mirin; 1 teaspoon wasabi powder (more or less to taste); 125 ml mayonnaise; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 12 crab claws, cooked and shells cracked (ask your fishmonger to prepare these); 3 tablespoons thinly sliced chives; 500 g baby (new) potatoes, cooked and refreshed, then halved; 2 large handfuls of watercress; 1 medium red onion, very thinly sliced and rinsed in cold water for a minute; handful of coriander leaves

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salads

By Peter Gordon

Published 2005

About

Crab claws are a real hands-on eating experience. You’ll have to pick them up and suck out the flesh, use your teeth to clamp on to the meat inside and use your fingers and a solid toothpick, or special crab pick, to get at the meat in the corners. However, it’s well worth it: it’s fun and it’s sociable. But... if you don’t want to serve this for a formal dinner, then buy crab meat already taken from the shell.

Wasabi is one of those flavours that either you get or you don’t. I get