Potted Crab

Name: Potted Crab
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: salt and pepper; small handful of chives, chopped; 2 tsp paprika; 200 g butter; juice and zest of a lime; 300 g white crab meat; 3 tbsp mayonnaise; ½ red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Seafood Shack

By Kirsty Scobie and Fenella Renwick

Published 2020

About

This is a real crowd pleaser and can be made up in advance so it’s all hit and no hassle. We usually use white crab meat, but if you’ve got some brown you can use a mix. Make sure you serve it with warm toast so the butter topping melts!

Ingredients

300 g white crab meat
3 tbsp mayonnaise
½

Method

Pick through your crabmeat to make sure there are no little bits of shell and put it in a bowl. Mix in the mayonnaise, chilli, chives and lime juice and zest. Taste and season if it needs it. Divide between four ramekins and flatten the top using the back of your spoon so it’s nice and even.

Melt the butter in a pan and add the paprika. Pour a thin layer over the crab and put the rameki