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Derby menu: Crab salad, tender beef, juleps

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Just in time for the Kentucky Derby, chef Dean Corbett offers this menu for festive eats, including jumbo crab salad, roasted beef tenderloin and a cool mint julep to wash it all down.

Jumbo lump crab with avocado, green goddess dressing and mango salad
Dean Corbett

INGREDIENTS

For dressing

3 anchovy filets soaked in cold water, dried in low-heat oven and coarsely chopped
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons chives, minced
2 teaspoons fresh tarragon, minced
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon chopped fresh basil
2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
1 tablespoon minced shallots
Juice of 1 lemon
Salt and fresh-cracked pepper
2 avocados, cleaned and chopped to 1/2 iinch in size and reserved

Mango salad

1 fresh mango, cleaned and chopped to 1/4 inch
1 teaspoon chopped fresh jalapeno
1 tablespoon chopped fresh red pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh yellow pepper
1/2 red onion, minced
1/2 teaspoon fresh minced garlic
Juice of 1 lime
1 teaspoon fresh cilantro, minced
Salt and fresh pepper

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DIRECTIONS

Mix all dressing ingredients except avocado and reserve.

To assemble:
Combine crab and 1/2 cup green goddess dressing.

Using Tian 3-inch Ring 3 (a metal or plastic ring that can be used as a mold), layer with ½ of crab, avocado, mango salad and top with remaining crab and favorite microgreens and serve.

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Roasted beef tenderloin with homemade Henry Bain (chilled)
Dean Corbett

INGREDIENTS

One center cut Creekstone Farms prime beef tenderloin
Olive oil
Kosher salt
Coarse black pepper
Fresh minced garlic

Henry Bain sauce

2 bottles Heinz or other ketchup
1 bottle A-1 sauce
1 bottle Heinz 57
4 oz. Worcestershire sauce
4 oz. Major Grey chutney
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1/2 cup English black walnuts
Salt and coarse ground pepper

DIRECTIONS

Lightly marinate one center-cut Creekstone Farms prime beef tenderloin in olive oil, kosher salt, coarse black pepper, fresh minced garlic.

Roast in CVAP oven at 135 degrees with 10 percent evaporation setting.

For Henry Bain: Blend ingredients lightly in food processor until mixed. Should be slightly chunky in texture.

Serve tenderloin with sauce.

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Jack's Lounge mint julep
Dean Corbett

INGREDIENTS

1 oz. simple syrup
7 mint leaves
2 oz. of Kentucky bourbon
2 oz. of water

DIRECTIONS

Combine mint and simple syrup, lightly muddle. Fill glass with ice and bourbon, water and more ice if needed. Garnish with a big stem of fresh mint and a long straw.

This drink is traditionally served in a silver mint julep cup, but can be served in 8- or 10-ounce glasses instead.

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