Yield: 6 servings.
Preparation is easy.
Preparation time is 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 450 grams of king or queen crab leg meat (1 pound)
- 200 millilitres 2% milk (7 fluid ounces)
- 200 ml 35% cream (7 fluid ounces)
- 50 millilitres chopped chervil (3 tablespoons)
- 10 millilitres unsalted butter (1 tablespoon)
- kosher salt and black pepper
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit
- Butter the molds and set them aside. Put all but 6 pieces of the crab in a food processor, add the cream, the milk and the eggs. Mix until it comes together and is smooth. Add salt and pepper. Mix well.
- Put one piece of crab in the bottom of each mold. Cover with the flan mixture. Cover with chopped chervil. Put the molds in a baking dish and fill it to 2/3 full with hot water. Bake the flans in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Garnish the flan with scampi oil or a beurre blanc.