Flavor Overkill

My Google RSS reader has several recipe sites so if something interesting pops up it can be dinner that night.  Yesterday I saw the Lime-Crab soup listed in the Epicurioius feed.  I took a look at the list of ingredients and decided that it had potential and it ended up being last night’s dinner.

The first problem I encountered was that the recipe wasn’t very well written.  Is this a hot soup or a cold soup?  I originally thought that it was a hot soup but when Mrs. Salad Is Slaughter and I discussed it we decided that it’s a cold soup.  But how do you really tell from the recipe as written?

So, I made the soup, popped in the island of crab salad and gave it a taste.  The best thing I can say about this soup is that it has potential, but it requires several changes.  The first is to eliminate the chipotle chili and the adobo sauce.  The smoky spiciness from the chili and the sauce really overpowered the other flavors.  The crab got lost in the soup instead of being the star.

The next problem was the amount of cilantro mixed with the crab and avocado.  A quarter cup of packed cilantro is a lot, especially for the amount of crab and avocado used.  A tablespoon would work just fine.

If those changes were made this would be a decent soup.  That said, I probably won’t make it again because I’ve got a pile of recipes that Mrs. Salad Is Slaughter has cut out of various magazines that are waiting to be cooked.