Oriental Crab Appetizers

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb crabmeat, picked over
• 1 cup canned bamboo shoot, julienned
• 18 -24 large lettuce leaves
• 1/2 cup toasted walnuts, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons dry wine or 2 tablespoons grape juice
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
• 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
• 1/2 lb stringless snow peas, very finely julienned
• chinese hot mustard (optional)
• sweet plum sauce (optional)

Recipe

• 1 combine soy sauce, wine or juice, garlic, and ginger in a large bowl.
• 2 add crabmeat, snow peas, and bamboo shoots to soy mixture.
• 3 mix well.
• 4 top each lettuce leaf with portion of crab mixture.
• 5 fold leaves around crab by first turning in the sides, then rolling up.
• 6 serve on plate scattered with finely chopped toasted walnuts.
• 7 ---serving suggestion---.
• 8 make a quick sauce of half chinese hot mustard and half sweet plum sauce.
• 9 spoon in a zig-zag pattern on each plate.
• 10 place 3 rolls on top of the sauce, propped like fallen logs.
• 11 top with toasted nuts and sprigs of fresh coriander.