Imitation crab is so delicious that you might want to tuck straight in as soon as you open the pack. So, is it really safe to ...

Fresh crabs should feel heavy for their size. You can buy a crab live and boil it yourself; alternatively, ask your fishmonger to kill it for you, or buy it ready-cooked. If buying cooked crabmeat ...

Crab cakes definitely fall into a category of food I love to eat, but hate to pay for in restaurants. They almost always feel ...

Crabs cooked Goan-style with coconut cream and goan chilli bombs. In a pan, add Kashmiri chilies, goan chilly bombs, grated coconut, garlic, ginger, cloves for heat, coriander seeds, cinnamon, black ...

Our cookbook of the week is Bayou by chef Melissa Martin, owner of Mosquito Supper Club, a Cajun restaurant in New Orleans.

If using frozen crab meat, let it thaw in the fridge ... Heat a wok over a high flame and when it’s hot, add the cooking oil. Put the kaffir lime leaves in the wok and stir-fry until they ...

Remove all the meat, tomalley and roe from the crab legs and bodies and add it to the bowl. Heat 5ml (1tsp) of cooking oil in a small pan, add the finely minced shallots and cook over a low flame ...

The American recipes all do this and it is really worth ... Other flavours that go with crab are tarragon, dill and parsley. You can be quite generous with all these herbs as the flavour of ...