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A beautiful centrepiece at the dinner table, this easy to prepare, no-cook Christmas salmon wreath recipe from Chef Emmanuel Stroobant will make light work of your festive preparation.

CHILLI CRAB QUICHE
(Serves 6)

Ingredients

For dough

Flour [250g]
Butter (room temperature) [150g]
Salt [4g]
Sugar [5g]
Egg yolk [1]
Milk [20ml]

Method:

• Combine flour and butter.
  
• Add salt and sugar. Then add egg yolk and mix until incorporated.
• Add milk slowly.
• Flatten and wrap dough in cling film. Set for 2 hours.
• Once ready, roll out to 3mm thick and blind bake at 180°C for 20 minutes.
  

For Crab:

Celery [1 stalk, peeled and diced]
Carrot [1, peeled and diced]
Onion [4g peeled and diced]
2 live Kegani or 1 mud crab [1kg]

Method:

• Bring 4 litres of water to boil with celery, carrots and onions.
• Blanch crab for 15 minutes. Remove crab from water.
• Pick the meat, egg and fat.

Method:

• Blend garlic, shallot and all chillies to a paste
• Add 200ml crab stock of water
• Fry the paste in olive oil until thick and fragrant. This may take 8-10 minutes
• Add remaining stock, sugar syrup and tomato ketchup and cook for 1 minute.

Finishing:

• Place picked crab meat on the tray.
• Combine sauce with eggs. Cover crab meat with egg sauce.
• Bake at for 180°C for 12 minutes.