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Cromer Dressed Crab
Sweet Cromer crab — brown meat enriched with yolk and mayonnaise, white meat left pure — arranged back in its shell with lemon and brown bread.
- Prep
- 30 min
- Cook
- 0 min
- Total
- 30 min
- Yield
- Serves 2–4
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Era
- Seaside classic
Ingredients
- 1 large cooked crab (about 1kg), or 300g picked mixed crabmeat
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 1 hard-boiled egg yolk
- 1 tsp lemon juice; dash of Worcestershire sauce
- Cayenne, salt, white pepper; 1 tbsp fine breadcrumbs
- Brown bread and butter, lemon wedges, cucumber — to serve
Method
- Pick out the white meat from the claws and legs; keep it separate from the soft brown meat.
- Mix the brown meat with the mayonnaise, mashed egg yolk, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, breadcrumbs and seasoning.
- Spoon the brown mixture down the centre of the cleaned shell (or a serving dish).
- Flank it with the flaked white meat on either side.
- Serve simply with brown bread and butter, lemon and sliced cucumber.
Oven temperatures are given in Celsius, Fahrenheit, fan and gas mark throughout. Quantities are metric, as cooked and written in the UK.