Name: Crab with fennel salad
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 uncooked blue swimmer crabs (1.5kg); 10cm stick fresh lemon grass (20g), cut lengthways; 4 centimetre piece fresh ginger (20g), sliced thickly; 1/2 cup loosely packfresh coriander leaves; 1/2 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves; Fennel salad; 2 medium oranges (480g); 1 large fennel bulb (550g); 1 tablespoon rice vinegar; 2 teaspoon olive oil; 1 small radicchio (150g), leaves separated, torn; 1/4 cup loosely packed fresh chervil leaves

Crab with fennel salad

Use any kind of crab, available from fish markets, if blue swimmers are not in season. Radicchio is a burgundy-leafed lettuce with white ribs and a slightly bitter flavour.

*The Ultimate Low-fat* cookbook, ACP Books

Serves 4

Cook

30M

Ingredients

4 uncooked blue swimmer crabs (1.5kg)

10cm stick fresh lemon grass (20g), cut lengthways

4 centimetre piece fresh ginger (20g), sliced thickly

1/2 cup loosely packfresh coriander leaves

1/2 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves

Fennel salad

2 medium oranges (480g)

1 large fennel bulb (550g)

1 tablespoon rice vinegar

2 teaspoon olive oil

1 small radicchio (150g), leaves separated, torn

1/4 cup loosely packed fresh chervil leaves

Method

1.Lift flap under body of each crab; turn crab over, hold body with one hand while pulling off top part of shell with the other. Discard shell and gills on either side of body. Rinse crab under cold water; chop body in half.

2.Place lemon grass, ginger and herbs in large baking-paper-lined steamer, over large saucepan of simmering water; top with crab. Cook about 10 minutes or until crab is changed in colour.

3.Make fennel salad. Segment oranges over small bowl; reserve juice. Using mandolin or V-slicer, cut fennel into paper-thin slices. Combine fennel, reserved juice, vinegar and oil in large bowl. Add radicchio, chervil and orange segments; toss gently.

4.Serve crab with fennel salad.

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