Lettuce Tower
- 400 g imitation crabmeat
- 250 g chicken bouillon
- 120 g buckwheat groats (cous cous)
- 2 cucumbers
- 1 avocado
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 1 sweet red pepper
- 2 tablespoons light mayonnaise
- 1 small onion
- salad leaves
- 50 g dry white wine
- lemon
- 1 tablespoon wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- salt
- pepper
- Boil the bouillon.
- Pour over the cous cous and mix.
- Cover and cook it 1-2 minutes or place in the microwave covered for 1 minute at maximum power.
- Keep covered for 5 minutes, then remove cover, mix and let cool.
- Remove seeds from the cucumbers and the pepper and julienne.
- Reserve 1/4 of the cucumber and pepper; set to the side.
- Mix the remaining cucumber and pepper with the cous cous.
- Mix the oil and wine vinegar together; add to cous cous.
- Mince the onion and brown until golden in 1 table spoon of vegetable oil.
- Cool.
- Peel and pit avocado; cut into thin slices and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
- Shred the crab meat, the reserved cucumber/pepper mixture, add the browned onion, mayonnaise, and pepper to taste; set to the side.
- I added salt.
- Tear lettuce into small pieces by hand and dress with wine vinegar and oil.
- To assemble the salad, cut both ends out of a can.
- Begin assembling of salad tower.
- Place bottomless can on salad plate and layer bottom layer is cous cous, followed by avocado, and crab mix.
- Press each layer firmly with a spoon.
- Carefully remove the can.
- Dress each plate with some larger, prettier lettuce leaves.
- Serve.
imitation crabmeat, chicken bouillon, buckwheat groats, cucumbers, avocado, lemon, sweet red pepper, light mayonnaise, onion, salad leaves, white wine, lemon, wine vinegar, vegetable oil, salt, pepper
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/lettuce-tower-205996 (may not work)