Making crab!

[Brot64]

Any advice on making crab please? Last time I made some (DH's and DC favourite) I poured have the content down the drain as I blanched it first . It was all dislocated once I wanted to put it in the oven. I am okay with making lobster as I grill it directly but can't master anything with pre-cooked crab. My take was to pre boil it, massive failure. Any ideas? And any seasoning ideas would be great. Currently just doing garlic and lemon.

We like to get a pre-boiled crab, pick the meat out and warm it through in a pan with some olive oil, red chilli and lemon. The crab mix must then be served on toasted ciabatta with mayonnaise mixed with garlic and salt. It's a simplified version of Jamie Oliver's crab crostini and my absolute favourite!

Thanks I will try that. Everything else I have tried has been disappointing to say the least.

Perhaps you should do less with it? Good cooked crab doesn't need a lot of extra flavours.

I made fresh ravioli with crab and lemon recently, delicious.

Don't know about the cooking side of it but have to say that for me, crab tastes about 100 percent better when there's mayo.

Well it was cooked and I froze it because we couldn't have it when I bought it (probably a mistake) I looked at a few recipes online and they all looked so fancy so wondered whether anyone here had more simple ideas. Will try the suggestions and keep it simple

I are a crab shell which I had frozen recently snd it was fine. I didn't blanche or fry it but just used it immediately.

I love crab linguine

Garlic chilli crab lemon and coriander

I do crab, chilli, lemon, garlic then toss it through angel hair pasta.
It's simple but really delicious.