Potted Crab

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    , as a starter
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

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Ingredients

  • 2 freshly cooked crabs
  • 6 oz / 170 g unsalted butter
  • juice of

Method

Crack the crabs open and remove the feathery gills and stomach sacs. Pick out all the meat, keeping the white meat separate from the creamy brown flesh. Divide the butter into three 2 oz / 60 g porti