Mud Crab with Mustard Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serve

    six

    people
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Tony Bilson's Recipe Book

By Tony Bilson

Published 1987

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Ingredients

  • 4 kg mud crab, legs detached and claws cracked
  • 100 g butter
  • 6

Method

Prepare the mud crabs. Reserve the mustard and any roe. Melt the butter in a large stockpot and soften the shallots and garlic over a low flame. Add the mud crab, herbs and peppers and keep turning until the shells begin to colour. Add the wine and fish stock, cover with a tight-fitting lid and cook over a high heat for ten to 12 minutes, by which time the crab should be cooked. Remove from the