Ingredients
6 1/2 oz can, crab meat, flaked
1/2 cup thinly sliced celery
1 lime
1/2 cup toasted slivered almonds
2 papayas, halved and peeled
Directions
Mix crabmeat and celery. Chill. Slice lime in half and add juice
from one of the halves to the crabmeat & celery. Add slivered
almonds. Pile in papayas and garnish with wedges of lime, cut from
the remaining
1/2 lime.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Crab; Fish; Fruit; Meat; Seafood
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