Unless you cook crabs from live yourself, we have just used ready prepared handpicked crab, with mainly white meat but a little brown meat as well for flavor. Crab is exceptionally good and healthy to eat. It is low in fat and calories, and contains vitamins such as A, B and C, and minerals such as copper and zinc. Try to buy the handpicked crab, as tinned crab will often contain portions of other types of seafood, so do read any tins carefully. If you can get some pretty decorative shells from the fishmonger or supermarket, it makes the dish look beautifully presented. If not, they are readily available in hardware stores or online.
Serves: 2
Prep Time: 15 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
6-8 oz of hand prepared crab meat (depending on whether you have this as a starter or a lunch)
Juice of two limes, plus a couple of slices for garnishing the crab
A little chopped parsley
1 tbs of low fat mayonnaise
Freshly milled black pepper
2 mangoes
METHOD:
Place your crabmeat into a bowl and mix in the mayonnaise, lime juice and black pepper. Cut the remaining lime, or some of it, into thin triangles.
Using your chopping board, slice the mangos down to the stones, and twist into halves. Remove the skin and slice into pieces lengthwise. This can be quite difficult but persevere! Set the mango slices aside.
On your board, finely chop the parsley and mix into the crab meat.
Fill the shells with the crabmeat mixture, not too full, and decorate with small triangles of lime.
Serve on a platter with the mango slices around the edges to decorate. If you cannot get the shells, make a ring from the mangoes on each plate and serve the crab on top.