Dressed Brown Crab

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    Portion
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Gary Maclean's Scottish Kitchen: Timeless traditional and contemporary recipes

By Gary Maclean

Published 2022

  • About

Brown crab is amazing, and if you have never tried it you are missing out. Scotland’s geography and weather are perfect for producing brown crab; we land thousands of tons every year and most of it is exported to Asia. Normally, I go for the biggest crabs I can find, but when you are preparing dressed crab it is always better to go smaller, as one crab is a portion. When I am in Oban, I head for the pier to the seafood restaurants and get a beautifully prepared dressed crab. Brown crabs are