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Blue Crab and Napa Cabbage Salad

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Yield

10

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ingredients

Raw blue crab claws

White Soy-Plum Vinaigrette 
315 grams Kikkoman® Rice Vinegar  
50 grams sugar   
10 grams salt  
10 grams Rayu (chili sesame oil)  
50 grams white miso  
30 grams Kikkoman® Plum Sauce  
20 grams Kikkoman® Sushi Sauce  
9 grams garlic, minced 

Salad   
60 grams crab claw meat  
50 grams vinaigrette  
60 grams thinly sliced Napa cabbage 

Garnishes 
Julienne green apple soaked in lime juice  
Thinly sliced pickled ginger  
Thinly sliced mint and cilantro 

directions

  1. To prepare crab claws, steam for 3 to 4 minutes in a Rational or steam oven in steam mode at 212°F. Shock in an ice water bath immediately and let cool completely. Remove crab meat from claws.   
  2. To prepare vinaigrette, whisk together vinegar, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl until sugar and salt have dissolved. Whisk in remaining vinaigrette ingredients. Taste and adjust if needed with a touch of water.  
  3. To assemble salad, gently toss crab with vinaigrette. Pile cabbage onto a salad plate or bowl and top with crab. Garnish with apple, ginger, mint and cilantro.   

Recipe created in partnership with Chef Raymond Li at Li’s Dim Sum 

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