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Dressed Crab With Herb Salad And Mayonnaise

This is very easy and quick to prepare. If you don't want to serve it as individual portions, spoon the crab meat over the salad and serve on one large plate to share.

Ingredients

 Dressed Crab With Herb Salad And Mayonnaise

1 Dressed Crab per person

For the herb salad:
Baby mixed salad leaves
A handful of rocket
A mixed handful of basil, mint and parsley leaves
picked from their stalks
Lemon juice
Olive oil

For the Mayonnaise:
2 egg yolks
2 tbs white wine vinegar
2 tbs Dijon mustard
300ml Olive oil
Lemon juice
Salt and pepper

Method

1. Make the mayonnaise. Put the yolks in a bowl with the vinegar and mustard.
2. Slowly add the oil in a thin stream, whisking all the time. Gradually the mixture will thicken and emulsify. If it gets too thick add a little lemon juice or water.
3. Season with salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice.

4. Mix the salad leaves and herbs. Just before you are ready to eat, dress with a squeeze of lemon juice and a glug of olive oil. Season.

Serve with lots of good bread and butter and a wedge of lemon.

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Venison is very good for your health. High in protein, like beef, but much lower in fat. It is also full of vitamin B, iron, phosphorous, zinc and selenium. (If you know what all those are).

Cooking wise, you can treat it like beef, the less exercised muscles can be cooked quickly and served pink. The shoulder suits a slow, gentle braise. The younger the deer, the more tender the meat will be. However, don't disregard an older beast, for once marinated and cooked slowly, it will taste delicious.

The gamey flavour goes well with sweet flavours, such as the sherry in the Pedro Ximinez recipe, otherwise, redcurrant jelly or port are excellent, as are rosemary and juniper, sweet carrots or squash.

In Britain we have several types of deer, the most common being Red deer, Fallow and Roe, but you can also find Sika and Muntjac. They are all very different and very delicious.