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King Crab and Avocado Shooters

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This is pretty good, nice simple flavors. I don't think it will be a go-to recipe though.

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King Crab and Avocado Shooters

  • fast FAST
  • healthy HEALTHY
TOTAL TIME: 30 MIN
SERVES: 8
Zapallar, the small Chilean beach town where the Huneeus’s family villa is located, has a wonderful fish market where Valeria Huneeus buys excellent fresh crab. She loves tossing it with sweet and soft avocados, a little coconut milk and fresh ginger, then serving it in a glass, shooter-style, with a thick slice of avocado on top.
ingredients
  • 2 small Hass avocados—1 cut into 1/2-inch dice, 1 cut into 8 wedges
  • 2 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 1/2 pound king crab in the shell or 6 ounces lump crabmeat
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened coconut milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger
directions
  1. In a shallow bowl, coarsely mash the diced avocado with a fork. Add the heavy cream and lemon juice and mash the mixture just until combined. Stir in the chopped cilantro and season generously with salt and pepper.
  2. 2With kitchen scissors, cut the crab leg shells and pull out the crabmeat. Cut the crabmeat crosswise into 1-inch pieces and shred the crab. In a small bowl, combine the coconut milk and ginger. Fold in the crab and season with salt and pepper.
  3. Spoon the crab and avocado into 8 small glasses. Top each shooter with an avocado wedge and serve.

MAKE AHEAD The shelled crabmeat can be refrigerated overnight.

WINE The Huneeus family pairs these crab and avocado shooters with the streamlined, zesty 2006 Veramonte Sauvignon Blanc, made from grapes grown in the ocean breeze-cooled Casablanca Valley—arguably Chile’s premier Sauvignon Blanc region. Another great Casablanca Sauvignon Blanc to look for is the citrusy 2005 Santa Rita Reserva.

Recipe by Valeria Huneeus
From Easter with Chile’s Wine Visionaries
This recipe originally appeared in April, 2007.