Hot Buttered Crab

Name: Hot Buttered Crab
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2 x 1 kg/2 lb 4 oz boiled crabs, picked – yielding about 400 g/14 oz white meat and 250 g/9 oz dark meat – and shells cleaned; 50 g/1¾ oz butter, melted; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 75 g/3 oz fresh breadcrumbs; 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar; 1 tablespoon olive oil; a very fine grating of nutmeg

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

About

This is best made with a freshly picked crab, using both brown and white meat.

Ingredients

2 x 1 kg/2 lb 4 oz boiled crabs, picked – yielding about 400

Side dish
Pescatarian
Spicy

Method

Preheat the grill to hot. Put the crabmeat into a bowl and mix with the nutmeg, olive oil, sherry vinegar, a big dash of Tabasco and the salt and pepper. Add about three-quarters of the breadcrumbs and