Spicy Crabmeat Salad

Serves 6-8 Persons.


Ingredients:

• 1 cup shredded crabmeat
• 1 tablespoon butter
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 large cucumber, thinly sliced
• 1 medium carrot, thinly sliced
• 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
• assorted salad  greens
• 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
• 1/2 cup toasted cashew nuts

Dressing:

• 2 tablespoons chopped garlic
• 2 tablespoons ginger
• 2 pieces siling labuyo or bird's eye chili
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon dried hibe or dried shrimp
• juice of lime, according to your taste
• 1/2 cup sesame oil

Procedures:

1.  Heat crabmeat in butter .  Season with  salt and pepper and continue cooking for another minute.  Set aside.
2. In a bowl, mix together cucumber, carrot, onion and salad greens.  Top with cashew nuts and cooked crabmeat.  Chill in the refrigerator.
3. Using a mortar and pestle, pound garlic, ginger, siling labuyo, sugar, and hibe to a fine paste.  Mix prepared paste with the lime juice and sesame oil.  Whisk to fully combine.
4. Serve  prepared salad with the dressing on the side.

-Lifted from Daily Delights by Nestle 2007