Ultra-nutritious, this Crab Avocado salad with asparagus is beautiful for a light Summer meal. Dressed with a lively vinaigrette you’ve got a delicious and fresh seafood salad recipe.
This week, my local market had Crab legs for $9.99/lb. Prompting this easy as can be, crab salad recipe with avocado and asparagus.
Look at all of these beautiful, fresh and healthy ingredients. I’m trying to eat as healthy as I can before the month-long food gorge begins in a couple of weeks. And believe you me, I plan to whole heartedly participate in the Holiday food festivities. 🙂
The Greens For This Crab Avocado Salad Recipe
I’ve been finding pea shoots at Whole Foods. They’re a beautiful garnish and addition for any salad.
They’re simply the leaves of the traditional garden pea plant that are harvested about 2 – 4 weeks into the growth cycle. Tender, young and bursting with pea flavor.
For presentation, I’ve placed the crab meat, asparagus and avocado on big luscious leaves of read leaf lettuce. And it’s not just for presentation, it because a fresh delicious part of the meal.
It’s Healthy
Eating this crab avocado salad makes you feel so good about yourself. And its a very easy salad to prepare:
- Asparagus is cooked until just tender.
- Raw pistachios and avocado and added for an even healthier salad.
- A delightful and fresh tasting lemon vinaigrette finishes the combination.
- Sprinkle on some sweet crab meat and you are in salad heaven.
Crab meat can be expensive at times. You can also make this salad with cooked shrimp, coarsely chopped. Either way, a healthy choice for a light dinner.
Recipe for Crab Avocado Salad
I hope you give this crab avocado salad recipe a try. It’s a must have recipe for your Spring and Summer recipe rotation. And it’s perfect for entertaining.
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Crab Avocado Salad with Asparagus and Lemon Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 1 pound asparagus thick asparagus
- 8 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil divided
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 6 medium basil leaves
- 1 small shallot coarsely chopped
- ½ cup flat-leaf parsley leaves
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 3 ½ ounce pea shoots trimmed
- ¼ cup raw pistachios coarsely chopped
- 1 pound jumbo lump crab meat
- 2 Hass avocados each cut into wedges or coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Cut tough ends off asparagus and throw away. Slice asparagus tops into 1 inch chunks. Heat a frypan over medium high heat. Add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and then add asparagus and shallot. Salt and pepper to taste. Lower heat to medium. Cook until just tender, about 5 minutes.
- In a blender, blend the remaining oil, lemon juice, basil and ¼ cup of the parsley. Season the dressing with salt and pepper.
- In a large bowl, add the pea shoots, pistachios and the remaining ¼ cup of parsley leaves to the asparagus. Toss with half of the dressing and season with salt and pepper. Divide among plates and Sprinkle with crab meat.
Notes
Nutrition
Crab Avocado Salad …It’s What’s For Dinner.
Why Trust These Recipes? Lea Ann Brown has lived, worked and played in Colorado for 45 years. She has immersed herself in the Colorado Culinary space, is a Culinary School Graduate and publishes her Colorado food Blog, Cooking On The Ranch.
I have some blog catching up on here, and this looks great. I am with girlichef, the combo is right up my alley…
Thanks for stopping by Elizabeth. I know what you mean. I follow a lot of blogs and sometimes get WAY behind.
Looks fantastic! …and it has everything I like…. I’m looking forward to trying it!
I’m totally down with the whole eating healthy before the holidays thing, really I am. But browse any magazine, blog or newspaper article and you are bombarded with gloriously decadent holiday foods and desserts (in full color and larger than life, I might add). How’s a girl to do it?? Maybe I need to pull out my eat-healthy-and-light-for-summer magazine issues and put on some blinders in line at the grocery store 😀
Or, I could just go ahead and make this recipe, since Dillon’s also has crab on sale this week. King crab legs for 8.99/lb thankyouverymuch! 😀
You’ve only got that $8.99 price tag because you’re closer to the ocean…….oh no, wait, that’s the Arkansas River. Which by the way I hope you’re pronouncing correctly – arKANsas
Alas, my Whole Foods doesn’t seem to be doing this one day sale thing. Too bad, seems like a good deal! This salad sounds great and has some of my favorite ingredients. If you’re going to lighten up the meals before the holidays, at least you can make them still taste good.
Doggone it – can’t you tell them that since Colorado is doing it, everyone should?????
Thanks for stopping by Joanne
This sammy has everything I like on it. Wonderful sandwich, filling but no heavy.
Thanks so much for stopping by Katherine!
Love the combination of all these goodies, and the addition of the pistachios, brilliant. Looks soooo attractive too.
As always, thanks for stopping by Donna
Crab season started last week for the public. Commerical Crab seasion starts next weekend. Hopefully in two weeks we will get live crabs for under three bucks a pound. Now, if only it was Asparagus season that recipe would be to die for. It still sounds so very good. I will make it even though it may be healthy for you.
Thanks for stopping by chilebrown. It sounds like you live a lot closer to the ocean that I do! 🙂
Mmm, all my favourite stuff! Sounds great.
For next month – hope you have your stretchy pants! 😉
LOL – you bet, elastic waist bands will most certainly be required. Thanks for stopping by Natashya
I love all these greens and it is definitely a great combo with crab and avocado.
Thanks for stopping by Anncoo
Anything with both crab and avocado is delicious in my book…especially if you add some yummy bread. This looks really great!
Sounds like a great salad. I made asparagus with pasta last night with a lemon sauce, so I know this combination is yummy!
Ok now, Pasta with asparagus and lemon sauce sounds wonderful. Hope you blog about it.
Thanks for stopping by Karen
The salad looks so tempting…all the best ingredients in one salad.
Very attractive, and sounds tasty to boot!
Well, it’s certainly not Dad’s Pizza, but a girl has to watch that pudgy girlish figure ya know! 🙂
Sounds divine! Love all the ingredients and can’t wait to try!
Yum! I love crab and the salad looks so refreshing and good. I am going to have to check and see if we have the one day sales here.
What fabulous gourmet ingredients! I never would’ve thought to add the pistachios!
It was delicious. I couldn’t find salted/roasted at Whole Foods, so added raw/unsalted. I do think the salted would have been better – but this was still delicious. Thanks for stopping by
Crab, avocado, and asparagus – can’t go wrong with that combination. Well you can’t REASONABLY go wrong with that combination. I mean sure, you could put in skunk road kill and that would ruin it, but otherwise….. 😉
LOL – yup, I’m thinkin some skunk would pretty much stink up that dish! As always, Thanks for stopping by Chris
This looks soooo good! I love every single ingredient, so I can almost taste it. You know, this makes me even grumpier about not having a Whole Foods up here. I am still planning to figure out how to sprout my own peas. Great post & great recipe!
I know, I almost cringe every time I mention the W.F. word about making you grumpy. I feel the same over no Trader Vics here in Colorado.
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