Crab Salad Recipe
with Carrot Citrus Salsa

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Crab Salad Recipe with Carrot Citrus Salsa:

A quick and delicious seafood salad with sweet crabmeat and crunchy cucumbers dressed in a simple carrot citrus salsa made with carrots, lemon, celery and onions.

Use the easy menu planner for some quick meal ideas for this crab salad recipe with carrot citrus salsa.


2-3 servings

You will need 6 ingredients:

- Fresh or Imitation Crabmeat
- Seedless Cucumber
- Packaged Shredded Carrots
- Celery
- Onions
- Lemon (Juice and Zest)


Make Ahead for this Salad:

- You can prepare the salsa a few hours
ahead of time or the day before and allow to marinate.

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Ingredients:

Salsa Ingredients

packaged shredded carrots – 1 cup

celery – 1/4 cup diced

onion – 1/4 cup diced

lemon zest – 1/2 tsp

fresh squeezed lemon juice – 1 to 2 tbsp

Quick Tip: You can pulse the carrots, celery and onion in a food processor until you reach the consistency you desire and transfer to a mixing bowl.

Crab Salad Ingredients

crabmeat 2 cups cooked
(use packaged crabmeat and cook if needed or
use packaged imitation crabmeat and separate into pieces)

seedless cucumber – 1 cup cubed

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1. Start by making the salsa. Prepare vegetables either by hand or in a food processor and place in a mixing bowl.

2. To the vegetables, add the lemon juice and zest. Toss well to combine. Taste and adjust lemon juice if needed.

3. Allow salsa to marinate in the refrigerator for at least three hours or overnight if possible.

4. In another bowl combine the crabmeat and the cucumbers.

5. To serve, either plate the crabmeat mixture on spinach leaves or salad greens and spoon the salsa over the top or mix the salsa into the crabmeat and serve on spinach leaves or salad greens.

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Use this easy menu planner to make delicious and fast meals with this crab salad recipe with carrot citrus salsa.

Quick Meals - Menu Planner:

Main Meal Ideas:

** Serve this easy crab salad scooped into avocado halves with warm thickly sliced crusty bread spread with plain or flavored cream cheese.

** Another easy meal idea is to serve this recipe for crab salad over warm or cold cooked couscous with sliced tomatoes and fresh basil leaves drizzled with olive oil and seasoned with salt and pepper on the side.


Light Meal Ideas (suitable for lunch or a light dinner):

** Turn this crab salad into a wrap sandwich or a crunchy crab taco by scooping salad into small soft tortilla shells or crispy taco shells and add a dollop of guacamole or sour cream on top.

** For an easy lunch idea try serving this quick salad recipe over artichoke bottoms with toasted bread spread with goat cheese along the side.

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