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Crab, brown bread and butter
Photo: Elle Hughes

Crab, brown bread and butter

38 ingredients Serves 4 openrecipes

This complicated recipe will demonstrate your chef skills: crab with nasturtium seed mayo, homemade butter, soda bread farls and potato spaghetti.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1395
Calories
62g
Protein
47g
Fat
182g
Carbs

Counts 19 of 25 ingredients — the other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 19 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
White Bread 1 slice (30g) white 79
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Chili 1 tsp (2.7g) 8
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Chive 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Chervil not in our table 0
Leaf not in our table 0
Flower not in our table 0
Rapeseed Oil not in our table 0
Meat not in our table 0
Sorrel not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 30g/1oz salt
  • 20 nasturtium
  • 570ml/1 pint white wine vinegar
  • 1 large live cock crab
  • 1 tsp ketchup
  • 1 tsp English mustard
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 800ml/1½ pint double cream
  • 3kg/6lb 8oz ice
  • 15g/½oz fine sea salt
  • 15g/½oz chervil
  • 12 very small hairy bitter cresscress
  • 12 very small nasturtium
  • 12 very small buckler leaf sorrelsorrel
  • 12 very small lady's smock leaves
  • 3 lady's smock flowers
  • 2 chive flowers
  • 2 free-range eggs
  • salt and pepper
  • pickling fluid from the nasturtium
  • 200ml/7fl oz extra virgin cold-pressed rapeseed oil
  • 10g/¼oz small chives
  • 10g/¼oz curly English parsley
  • (from above) butter
  • 2 free-range eggs
  • pinch of salt
  • 110g/4oz stoneground wholemeal strong flour
  • 110g/4oz strong white bread
  • pinch salt
  • 2g bicarbonate of soda
  • (reserved from the butter, above) buttermilk
  • , for deep frying vegetable oil
  • 1 large Maris Piper potato
  • leg meat (from above) crab
  • pinch salt
  • 1 pinch cayenne pepper
  • 1 handful common sorrel
  • handful pickled baby gherkins

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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