Fresh Crab and Pea Salad

Directions

1. First extract the meat from the crab, a process called ‘picking’. Take the cooked crab and lay it upside down in front of you. Pull off the legs and set them aside, then twist off the 2 large claws.
2. Take the main body of the crab, push it up out of the shell and set it aside. Left inside the shell, you’ll find the brown crab meat. Using a spoon, scrape out the brown crab meat, discard the skin covering the brown crab meat and sieve the brown crab meat to drain it.
3. For many people, the best part of a crab is the white meat found in the claws. There’s a knack to getting that delicious white flesh out from a crab without bits of shell in it. Watch my tip on Shell-free crab meat to see how I do it. Using the handle of a spoon, scrape out as much white meat as you can from one of the two large claws.