Potted Crab

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
What to Eat Now (Spring & Summer)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2009

  • About

I really enjoy breaking up crabs and fiddling out the meat, but it can be a little exhausting. So here I advise doing all the work first and enjoying the whole thing in one go later.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg live cock crab
  • 10 g butter
  • a small grating of

Method

Put a large saucepan of water on to boil. To kill the crab humanely, turn it upside down on to a tea-towel and pull up the little armour-plated cover that folds from the bottom of its shell to the middle of the underside. It will not like this, so move swiftly; it cannot hurt you. Holding this flap up, push a skewer into the obvious indent and firmly wiggle it around. This will kill the crab in