Potted crab

Name: Potted crab
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; juice of 1 lemon; 25 g butter per crab; 1 dressed crab per person (or 100 g crabmeat, both white and brown if possible); 1 dressed crab per person (or 100 g crabmeat, both white and brown if possible); ½ teaspoon nutmeg

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Clarissa's Comfort Food

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2008

About

The easiest and most delicious of starters. If you don’t want to pick over your crab, buy afresh dressed one. Frozen or tinned will also do for this dish.

Ingredients

25 g butter per crab
1 dressed crab per person (or 100 g crab

Europe
United Kingdom
Fish course
Starter
Gluten-free
Pescatarian
London

Method

Melt the butter in a large sauté pan and stir in the crabmeat. Add all the other ingredients except the lemon juice, adjusting the seasoning to taste. Cook gently until all the butter is melded in. At the last minute, stir in the lemon juice and serve warm with toast.