tarragon lemon salad with fresh crab and avocado
Watch me make this salad Monday, March 12th on Let’s Talk Live – 11am EST!
I’m on a Saucy Mama roll!! Yesterday I posted a recipe for Smoky Garlic Mustard & Roasted Veggie Mini Pizzas using the Smoky Garlic Mustard; today I’m using the Tarragon Lemon Mustard for this quick and easy salad. Each salad is only about 300 calories and so good. I love the sweet mustard in this healthy dressing.
For some instructions and helpful hints on how to stack a salad as I did in the picture, head over to this post on a stacked Cobb Salad. It’s quite easy to do!
Tarragon Lemon Salad with Fresh Crab and Avocado
- 1 8 oz container fresh jumbo lump crab
- 20 cherry tomatoes, sliced into thirds
- 4 cups finely chopped romaine lettuce
- 1 small bunch baby frisee lettuce
- 1 avocado, cut into 12 slices
- 3/4 cup Saucy Mama Tarragon Lemon Mustard
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt
- Mix together mustard and yogurt in a small bowl to make the dressing. In two more separate bowls, mix just enough dressing to lightly coat romaine lettuce and crab.
- Divide lettuce into four bowls. Top with crab, avocado, tomato slices and frisee lettuce. Serve with remaining dressing.
To stack salad as in photo, follow directions through step one and stack using these directions.
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WOW! So pretty!
I love crab salads. This one looks very refreshing and plated perfectly.
Thanks, John!
Another hit out of the park, Kristy!
Gorgeous shot of stacked salad! I couldn’t pull it off in million years :D
Are you kidding me?!! You make gorgeous food!!
Aah, what a refreshing combination this sounds and just makes one forget about the main dish altogether!:p
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That’s one gorgeous salad! Love how you’ve presented it.
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looks delicious, as always :)
Thanks, Rachel!! xo
So light and beautiful! Now I’m craving crab!
Thanks, M.J.!! :-)
It’s not often that a salad makes my mouth water, but this one looks delicious!
Oh My! I’m so making this on Friday…It looks absolutely delicious!
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lemon tarragon mustard sounds like an amazing creation! I’ll be buying Saucy Mama for the rest of the winter, but might try my own hand at it come spring, we’ll see!
Fresh crab meat can be a little hard to come by where I’m at, so I’m going to have to substitute lobster :)
Lobster would be delish, Chloe!
Your stacked salads look so elegant! I don’t see myself going through that trouble just to serve lunch to my family (does that make me a bad mother? lol), but I’ll definitely keep this in mind when serving for guests!
It’s so easy you’ll never believe it! And no, it doesn’t make you a bad mother at all – just a busy one! :-)
Wow, so easy, yet so delicious.
Thanks Grace!
You’ve hit all of my favorites here – crab, avocado, tomatoes, and an interesting salad dressing! I can’t wait to try it.
Thanks, Beau!
Looks like a fantastic summer lunch salad.
Thanks Erica!!
loving this stacked salad, lump crab with avocado is one fo my fav combos… lovely!!
Me too…although I love avocado with pretty much anything! Even just by itself ;-)
SoOO delicious looking! I am stumped now on whether to make this or your stacked salad for an upcoming event I’m hosting :/
Thanks so much!!
Both this, and the stacked cobb salad look great. It is so hard to choose one… so I’ll have to try both :)
lol!! You always make me laugh with your comments :-) I hope you do try both!! xo
Delicious. I just tried this recipe for my stepdad’s birthday party and all i can say is that these were a hit. I haven’t tried your recipe for the stacked cobb salad, but that is only because of the bacon and what not. I am dieting! :(
Feel free to leave the bacon off :-) So glad you liked this one!!
This salad is so fresh looking and I love how it is stacked. I am going to try this tonight :)
I hope you like it!!
Very beautiful!
Thanks, Kim!!
That is soooooo pretty. And the flavors….yum! Congrats on your win!!
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This looks delicious! What could you substitute if you don’t have Saucy Mama?
I would try using your favorite flavored mustard instead. Try not to use anything too strong or it will overpower the crab, otherwise most anything should work just fine.