BUYING CRABMEAT

If you’ve been able to buy a fresh crab from your local fishmonger (or maybe even caught your own), you can expect to get around 250g white meat and 120g brown meat from a 1.2kg crab. Follow our guide for how to cook a fresh crab at

bbcgoodfood.com/cooking-fresh-crab. Use a dressed crab or a pack of crabmeat from the supermarket – they usually contain both white and brown meat. Good fishmongers will also sell picked crabmeat, if you don’t want to tackle a whole crab.