Layered Crab Salad With Thousand Island Dressing Recipes

LAYERED CRAB SALAD WITH THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING

Steps:

• Use a tall glass bowl like a trifle bowl for the total effect of the layers.
• Start layering first the lettuce then in order of the ingredients ending with the crab.
• Mix dressing ingredients together except for the pecans.
• Cover and chill each separately for at least 1 hour.
• Serve with the dressing drizzled over the whole salad and garnished with sprinkled pecans.

10,000 ISLAND DRESSING WITH LAYERED SALAD

Steps:

• Dressing: In a glass bowl, add the mayonnaise, mustard and chili sauce and mix well. Add the capers, peppers, chopped egg, pickles and green onions. Fold everything together and season with the salt and pepper. Transfer to a glass jar or plastic container and refrigerate for 30 minutes to 24 hours.
• Salad: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Wash and prepare your vegetables. Trim the ends of the beets, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, to taste, and wrap in foil. Put them on a cookie sheet and roast in the oven until tender, about 1 hour or longer. Remove them from the oven and let cool. Once cooled, peel and cut them into julienne pieces.
• Saute the diced bacon in a small skillet over medium-high heat until just crisp. Remove the bacon from the skillet to a paper towel.
• In a clear glass bowl with slanted sides, layer your salad, starting with 1/3 of the iceberg, then the beets, 1/3 of the red leaf lettuce, then the avocado. Keep going with 1/3 of the iceberg, then the onions, 1/3 of the red leaf lettuce, then the tomatoes. Finish with the final portion of iceberg, then the eggs, the final layer of red leaf, then the cucumber. Top the entire salad with the dressing and garnish with the bacon. Toss at the table and serve immediately.