Crab and Samphire Frittata with Brown Meat Dressing

Name: Crab and Samphire Frittata with Brown Meat Dressing
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 tbsp crème fraîche; 100 g pre-cooked brown crabmeat; full-fat milk, to thin the sauce; juice of 1 lemon; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; 100 g each of chopped fresh chervil, dill and chives; 100 g each of chopped fresh chervil, dill and chives; 40 g freshly picked samphire; 100 g pre-cooked white crabmeat; olive oil; 100 g each of chopped fresh chervil, dill and chives; 6 medium eggs

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooks Country

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

About

The trick with this recipe is to leave the middle just slightly runny. Overcooking, just as with an omelette, kills the dish.

Ingredients

100 g pre-cooked brown crabmeat
1 tbsp crème fraîche
salt and pepper<

Europe
United Kingdom
Fish course
Lunch
Pescatarian
July
Gluten-free
Summer
August

Method

Preheat the grill to the highest temperature.

To make the brown crabmeat dressing put the meat in a mixer, add the crème fraîche, some salt and pepper and half of the lemon juice. Sieve the sauce and let it down with some full-fat milk until you have a sauce-like consistency. R