Crab Toasties

Name: Crab Toasties
Yield: Serves 3–4 as a snack or light lunch
Ingredients: sea salt and black pepper; pinch of cayenne pepper; 1 tsp soy sauce; 15 g dried white breadcrumbs; 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 100 g cream cheese (at room temperature); 80–100 g white crabmeat; mesclun and herb salad, dressed with a little vinaigrette; mesclun and herb salad, dressed with a little vinaigrette; 1 small ciabatta or baguette, thinly sliced on the diagonal; mesclun and herb salad, dressed with a little vinaigrette; sea salt and black pepper; 1 small ciabatta or baguette, thinly sliced on the diagonal

Preparation info

Serves
3–4
as a snack or light lunch

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Maze

By Jason Atherton

Published 2008

About

Ingredients

80–100 g white crabmeat
100 g cream cheese (at room temperature)
2

Fish course
Lunch
Snack
Pescatarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/Gas 3. Pick over the crabmeat and remove any tiny pieces of shell. Soften the cream cheese in a bowl, then mix in the mayonnaise and crabmeat. Add the breadcrumbs and soy sauce, and season with the cayenne and salt and pepper to taste.

Spread the crab