Dressed crab (Crabe farci)
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 70g (about ¼ of a baguette) baguette, slightly stale
- 3 tbsp semi-skimmed milk
- 2 spring onions, roughly chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 sprigs flat-leaf parsley
- 1 sprig thyme, leaves picked
- ) ½ chilli red habanero or scotch bonnet, seeded
- 2 tbsp butter
- 175g mixed crabmeat, shredded
- 1 lime, juiced
- 3 tbsp fine dried breadcrumbs
- to serve lime wedges
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Soak the baguette in the milk for 10 minutes.
- STEP 2
Put the spring onions, onion, garlic, parsley, thyme, and chilli in a food processor and blend until very finely chopped.
- STEP 3
Melt the butter in a frying pan.Add the chopped onion mixture and cook for a minute.Add the crabmeat and lime juice and cook for 2 minutes, then remove from the heat.
- STEP 4
Squeeze the milk out of the bread. Put the bread in a food processor and blend to a purée.Add the bread to the crab. Put the pan over a medium heat and cook for 3–4 minutes, stirring regularly so it doesn’t stick to the pan. Season and remove from the heat.
- STEP 5
Put the stuffing in small ramekins (if you used a whole crab, fill the cleaned shell with the stuffing) and sprinkle the breadcrumbs over. Put in the oven for 10 minutes, or until golden. Serve hot, on its own, or with salad.
