Crab and Avocado Salad

Ingredients for 4 main course servings

• 4 avocado pears
• lettuce

Ingredients for Salad

• 2 cans crabmeat (or 1 large crab, or equivalent lobster or shrimps)
• 3 tbs finely chopped celery
• ½ tsp salt
• ¼ pint mayonnaise
• 1 tbs tomato purée
• few drops chilli sauce
• 1 tbs lemon juice

Mix all the salad ingredients, saving 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Chill. Before serving, halve the avocado pears, sprinkle with remaining juice, pile filling high and serve on a bed of lettuce.

Variations:
Cheese and Avocado Salad - dice Blue, Rocquefort/Roquefort, Stilton, or Gruyère cheese very finely. Put either into the dressing as given above and serve in the avocado pears. More suitable for light main course.
Prawn and Avocado Salad - fill the avocado pear halves with prawns in mayonnaise.