Crab Salad Lettuce Wraps
- 1 serrano or jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
- 2 rounded tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar or white vinegar (eyeball it)
- 1 mango, peeled and diced
- 5 radishes, thinly sliced
- 1 celery rib, thinly sliced
- 1/2 red onion, finely chopped
- Juice of 1 lime
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise, plain yogurt, or sour cream
- 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro leaves (a mounded palmful), chopped
- 3 tablespoons fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves (a mounded palmful), chopped
- 1 pound lump crabmeat, cleaned of bits of shell and cartilage
- Bibb or iceberg lettuce, for wrapping
- In a small sauce pot, combine 2 tablespoons water with the hot peppers, sugar, and vinegar.
- Place over high heat and bring up to a simmer, then turn it off.
- Stir to ensure the sugar has dissolved completely.
- Remove from the heat.
- Transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and let stand for 5 minutes to cool.
- Add the mangoes, radishes, celery, red onions, lime juice, mayonnaise, cilantro, and parsley.
- Stir to combine.
- Gently fold in the crabmeat.
- To serve, pile the crab salad in lettuce leaves.
- Roll the leaves around the crab salad to encase it.
serrano, sugar, rice wine vinegar, mango, radishes, celery, red onion, lime, mayonnaise, fresh cilantro, parsley, lump crabmeat
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/crab-salad-lettuce-wraps-374292 (may not work)