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Potted Brown Crab

Recipe by Mitch Tonks
The Seahorse Restaurant, Dartmouth
www.seahorserestaurant.co.uk

Crab and Wensleydale Tartlets

Recipe by Brian Turner
www.brianturner.co.uk

 

Crab, Leek and Mushroom Risotto

Recipe by Stphen Pini
The Fishmongers Company
www.fishhall.org.uk

 

 

Crab Thermidor

Recipe by Paul Harvey
Boltons Bistro (Cliftonville Hotel)
Cromer
www.cliftonvillehotel.co.uk

 

Prepare Crab with Mayonnaise

Video by Mitch Tonks
LoveFood.com

 

Potted Crab

Recipe supplied courtesy of Shellfish Association of Great Britain
www.shellfish.org.uk Image © Sylvette Peplowski / SAGB

Potted Crab Recipe

Serves 2
Ingredients

  • 250g fresh brown crab meat 
  • Potted Brown Crab
  • Splash of Cognac
  • 1tsp ground fennel seeds
  • 1 dried chilli, crumbled 
  • 100g melted butter
  • Fennel fronds (the leafy part at the top of the fennel)
  • Juice and zest of half a lemon

 


Instructions

  1. Start by melting the butter
  2. Stir in the crab meat, cognac, the fennel, lemon juice, chilli and zest.
  3. Season to taste and then put the mix into ramekins.
  4. Pour a little melted butter over the top, then sprinkle with Fennel fronds (the leafy part at the top of the fennel)
  5. Chill well and serve with toast.