Crab Flan

Difficulty:
1/5

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Garnish the flan with scampi oil or a beurre blanc.