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Spicy Warm Crab Salad Recipe

Easy, healthy yet tasty salads can get so stereotype if you don't get creative with ingredients. Go for a variety of ingredients and you'll be surprise of the irresistible and extraordinary tastes it offers. This is a warm salad concocted from crabmeat, shrimp, chili, snow peas, scallions, corn kernels, carrot, bean sprouts, and spinach leaves which will just knock your socks off!

Ingredients :

Serves 4

  • 2 sprays sunflower oil

  • 1 fresh Serrano chili, seeded and finely chopped

  • 4oz / 115g snow peas, cut diagonally in half

  • 6 scallions, trimmed and finely shredded

  • 2 heaping tbsp frozen corn kernels, defrosted

  • 5½oz / 150g white crabmeat, drained if canned

  • 2oz / 55g raw shrimp, peeled and de-veined, thawed if frozen

  • 1 carrot, about 3oz / 85g, peeled and grated

  • ¾ cup bean sprouts

  • 8oz / 225g fresh baby spinach leaves

  • 1 tbsp finely grated orange rind

  • 2 tbsp orange juice

  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro, for sprinkling

Healthy Easy Salad Recipe - Spicy Warm Crab Salad

Method :

  1. Heat a wok and, when hot, spray in the oil and heat for 30 seconds. Add the chili and snow peas then stir-fry over medium heat for 2 minutes.

  2. Add the scallions and corn and continue to stir-fry for an additional 1 minute.

  3. Add the crabmeat, shrimp, carrot, bean sprouts, and spinach leaves. Stir in the orange rind and juice and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes, or until the spinach has begun to wilt and everything is cooked. Serve divided equally among 4 bowls, sprinkled with the chopped cilantro.

Nutritional Facts :

  • Calories: 188

  • Fat: 9.0g

  • Saturated Fat: 1.7g

  • Salt: 1.3g

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