Name: Butter Garlic Crab
Yield: Serves 2 as a main dish, or 4 as a small starter
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 3 dill sprigs, leaves only, chopped; 25 g garlic (6–7 cloves), finely chopped; 4 soft white bread buns, halved, toasted and buttered; 300 g crab meat (white or a mix or white and brown); 4 spring onions, trimmed and chopped; 75 g butter; Lemon wedges; 1 tsp Freshly ground black pepper; 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves; Coriander leaves; 1–2 green chillies, finely chopped; 1 tbsp lime juice; Spring onion, green part, sliced; 10 g fresh root ginger, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Dishoom

By Shamil Thakrar , Kavi Thakrar and Naved Nasir

Published 2019

About

Mahesh Lunch Home serves an excellent version of this dish, although Trishna’s is more famous. Ours is somewhat lighter than the Bombay equivalent, and gets along very well with the fresh herbs and green chilli. It’s a simple recipe, but very indulgent – one for a special occasion. We invented it for Diwali one year.

For ease, the recipe below uses shelled crab meat, but you can start with a whole crab, if you prefer: a 1–1.2kg crab is perfect for two (see