Asian Crab Salad Croustades

• ASIAN CRAB SALAD
• 2 tablespoons good-quality mayonnaise or 2 tablespoons aioli
• salt
• pepper
• hot sauce or harissa
• 15 ounces crabmeat, picked & cleaned
• 1 lime, juice of
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce (Nam Pla)
• 2 tablespoons soft brown sugar
• 1 small handful mint leaf
• 2 large handfuls coriander leaves
• 2 kaffir lime leaves
• 1 small red chili (or more to taste)
• half head romaine lettuce or iceberg lettuce
• CROUSTADES
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature (can be left out overnight)
• 48 slices white bread

1. FOR THE CRAB SALAD:.
2. Combine the lime juice, brown sugar and fish sauce in a bowl, stir until the sugar has dissolved.
3. If your sugar is quite hard, you can heat the mixture a little to make the dissolving easier.
4. Finely chop the coriander, mint and kaffir lime leaves, deseed and de-vein the chilli and chop finely as well.
5. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and leave to infuse for at least 3 hours in the fridge. You can prepare this a day in advance, if you wish.
6. Combine crab with the mayo/aioli and seaon with salt, pepper and a dash of tabasco.
7. Shred the lettuce leaves thinly, then chop roughly.
8. CROUSTADES:.
9. Preheat oven to 375u0b0F.
10. Coat insides of 48 muffin (2" ea) pans, generously with butter.
11. Using a 2-1/2" to 3" plain round cookie cutter; cut a round from each slice of bread. (Use the reminder bread for breadcrumbs).
12. Use fingertips, press against muffin cups (and you create a little cup).
13. Bake 8-10 minutes.
14. Remove from oven and cool. (These can be stored in airtight container)
15. TO ASSEMBLE;.
16. Fill the shells up with shredded lettuce about half way, then top with about 1 tsp of the crab salad.
17. Serve within 30 minutes to an hour so the bases don't get soggy.
18. VOILA.
19. The croustades (Rahm's) are available in most supermarkets in the UK and at Ikea food shops worldwide.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/asian-crab-salad-croustades-404393 (may not work)