Croquettes de crabe

What better way to end the week than having good friends over for dinner. 

Wine, laughter, a bit of serious conversation and bit of not so serious conversation to balance out the evening. 

I have not cooked with crab with very often. In fact, never. Despite growing up on an island nation surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea, it never did feature on our childhood menu. 

I bought a tin of crab meat one day; I was having an adventurous moment at the supermarket!

And then I made these.

I think I'll buy crab meat again.

Croquettes de crabe

makes 12

200g crab meat

1 bunch of parsley

3 slices of bread

100 ml milk

3 tbsp mayonnaise

3 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp self raising flour

salt and pepper

for the dipping sauce

1 lime

3 tbsp creme fraîche

Dipping Sauce

1. Add the zest of the lime to the creme fraîche and mix well

2. Juice the lime and reserve for the croquettes

Croquettes

1. Drain the crab meat. Wash and dry the parsley and chop finely.

2. Remove the crusts from the bread and soak in the milk.

3. In a bowl, mix the crab meat with the mayonnaise, parsley, and lime juice.

4. Squeeze the milk from the bread with your hands and mix into the crab meat mixture along with the flour.

5. Season the mixture

6. Heat the oil in a fry pan. Drop teaspoonful lots into the pan and  cook for 2 minutes on each side.

Serve hot with the dipping sauce