Crab Salad

My Grandma's recipe for crab salad.

Picked crab meat
Celery chopped fine
Sweet onion chopped fine
peas
Lettuce chopped fine
Mayo
Salt and Pepper

Amounts of each as you see fit, serve on lettuce leaves with crusty bread and butter or use in sandwiches.

found this on homecooking site but it's close to what I make. I don't include dill pickles or chives. If you like green pepper, add a small amount.

1/2 pound crab or imitation crab (surimi - see Note), chopped and shredded
1/2 cup finely-chopped sweet onion
1/4 cup finely-chopped celery
1/4 cup finely-chopped dill pickle
1 Tablespoon sweet pickle relish
1/2 teaspoon dill weed
1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
1/8 teaspoon white pepper or to taste
1/4 cup mayonnaise or to taste
1/2 teaspoon yellow mustard
1 Tablespoon chopped chives

The very basic is nearly identical to tuna salad without the pickle relish of course. Use less mayo and more celery. Chopped green onions to your taste. With crab less is more because the flavor is more delicate than tuna.

Yikes, I was hoping you had one.

But let's do what I do with a can of solid white tuna*, salmon, or crab pieces fresh

1 Can of fish or fresh fish more or less 1 cup, break up with fork
3 cups diced potatoes, steamed 10 minutes for chewy
3 cups diced celery
1 largish carrot grated
2 large eggs hard cooked and diced (or 3 regular sized eggs)
1 - 2 cups diced onion depending upon taste.
Salad dressing to taste. Actually I use a combo of creamy (as in mayonnaise) with plant oil (olive, walnut, safflower, sunflower, etc) again to cut the salt amount and the calorie amount.

Thawed peas, green or waxed beans can also be added.
A time or so I'll do a carrot relish instead of fresh carrots with currants or raisins. It all depends upon todays taste buds.

But lets have some ideas.


* being on a low salt diet, I've learned that flaked canned fish has more salt than the solid tuna or salmon. & one year in my life I got given 50 lbs of tuna from a tourist who couldn't take it home. Now, that was a year.

:C