King Crab and Avocado Shooters

Name: King Crab and Avocado Shooters
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8 5 oz small glasses, 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 small Hass avocadoes, 1 cut into 1/2-inch dice 1 cut into 8 wedges; 2 tablespoons heavy cream; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, it is best to add it a little at a time (not the bottled stuff); 1 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro; salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste; crushed red pepper flakes, to taste (A pinch or two or three); 1/2 lb lump crabmeat, in the shell; 3 tablespoons unsweetened coconut milk; 1/4 teaspoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger

Submitted by Manami

"This is a combination of King crab and avocado, what could be bad - and to top it off it is fast and healthy! Made a mistake it wasn't Saveur Magazine it was www.foodandwine.com/recipes/king-crab-and-avocado-shooters - it is from the April 2010 edition. **The computer will not allow me to post the lump crab meat (substitute) for the King crab, just know you can use it instead.Update:kcpowers reviewed the recipe and she says to use just a little aount of lemon juice and to use 5 oz glasses. :)"

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Ready In:: 30mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 8 5 oz small glasses
Serves:: 8

ingredients

2 small Hass avocadoes, 1 cut into 1/2-inch dice 1 cut into 8 wedges
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, it is best to add it a little at a time (not the bottled stuff)
1 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro
salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste
crushed red pepper flakes, to taste (A pinch or two or three)
¹⁄₂ lb lump crabmeat, in the shell
3 tablespoons unsweetened coconut milk
¹⁄₄ teaspoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger

directions

In a shallow bowl, coarsely mash the diced avocado with a fork.
Add the heavy cream, lemon juice ( use it a little at a tine), and crushed red pepper flakes and mash the mixture just until combined.
Stir in the chopped cilantro and season generously with salt and pepper.
With kitchen scissors, cut the crab leg shells and pull out the crabmeat.
Cut the crabmeat crosswise into 1-inch pieces and shred the crab or use lump crab meat (6 oz).
In a small bowl, combine the coconut milk and ginger.
Fold in the crab and season with salt and pepper.
Spoon the crab and avocado into 8 (5 oz) small glasses.
Top each shooter with an avocado wedge and serve.
**Make Ahead: The shelled crabmeat can be refrigerated overnight.
***Wine: the zesty 2006 Veramonte Sauvignon Blanc, made from grapes grown in the ocean breeze-cooled Casablanca Valleyï¿½arguably Chileï¿½s premier Sauvignon Blanc region.

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Reviews

This was a good recipe, but it needs to be tweaked. The proportions of this recipe are off. It calls for too much lemon juice and possibly crab - the lemon taste overwhelmed as written! I would cut lemon juice in at least half. Better yet, don't even measure it, just add a little at a time and keep tasting it. Really, it's only there, I think, to stop the avocado from browning. I also added more chili flakes than it calls for, and you could probably add more if you like spice. I was assembling this into a 2 oz. shot glass. I put a little bit of the avocado mixture on the bottom, then layered it with drab and garnished with the sliced avocado. I had a ton of crab left over. I purchased 24 oz. of lump crab (I was making 32 shooters - so scaling the recipe up 4x) instead of steaming and cracking my own legs. I probably had half the crab left over. So, if you're buying lump crab like I did, I'd cut the portion in at least half if you're truly making a shooter. Or, just use a bigger glass, 5 oz.

kcpowers

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Manami

Hello all, thank you for visiting My Page but forgive me for it is a work in progress! :) As I am sure you have noticed I changed my Chef Name to Manami which means love & beauty. ;) Just thought I should get with the program - my geisha & my icon! :) Don't fret, I won't change it again! I am 70 years young and I live in a nursing home, which is out of this world, I am treated like a princess and the world is my oyster! I have a private room and during the season I do taxes for most of the staff, as well as my personal clients that have been following me since I left the business world about 25 years ago. I was rear-ended by a van and it turned my whole world upside down. Why dwell on that? I am an American Jew (from NYC) who moved to Havana, Cuba when I was 2 1/2 years old, lived there until a few days after Castro took over and vamoosed it out of that country as fast as my legs would carry me! I was on a forced hiatus from the UofM, due to illness. From there my sister, mother and I went to NYC to work and my father went to Haiti in Port-Au-Prince, where he and my uncle had purchased some tiny cocoa plantations & a chocolate factory - for the choccolate liquer - to make baking chocolate (the real bitter stuff). We joined my father about 2 months later where I spent 2 of the most carefree & wonderful years of my life! It is the stuff that movies are made of! (A la Grace Kelly - even my clothes were like hers)>  I then continued my studies in upstate NY and hated it because it was too, too cold!:( Went back to NYC to work and see what I wanted to do with my life - I was all of 20 years old and had to drop out of school because of illness and then because of the weather! Yuck - so I got a job in a Textile Buying Office as a receptionist and soon I found myself buying trimmings! Loved it and was very happy with the work I was doing. However, I got an offer from two young guys who had a factory in Cleveland, Ohio, where they made Maternity Clothes and they wanted me to be in charge of the shipping dept, keep inventory and in my spare time - help with the designing!! I couldn't pass it up - the offer sounded so great and the salary was twice what I was making in the NYC. So I went to Cleveland, got married, had both my children and got a divorce 15 years later. Then my children and I moved to South Florida and have been here since 1978, I can't count that far back :) Learned how to do taxes with H&R Block and worked simultaneously as a Supervisor in 2 offices for them for 15 years. Then after the accident everything went spiralling downwards until I could no longer walk alone even with a walker - so the next step was a wheelchair. Stayed at home with a lot of help (nurses, PT therapists) fixed the bathroom so I could bathe myself and fixed the kitchen so I could help warm-up meals (was taught how to cook in rehab) and so forth and so on. However, the fire department had other plans for me, I called them too often to pick me up off the floor - how embarassing! So they gave me a choice - either a home or they would have to call HRS! :( (very sad) It was there, in my home where I was robbed! <img title=Cry src=/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-cry.gif border=0 alt=Cry /> All my cookbooks (all my Julia Childs Cookbooks, my Settlement Cookbook which had been my mothers - published in 1939 - with all her notes) my mother's cookbooks from Cuba & Haiti, all my handwritten recipes. 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