Crab and Avocado Linguini

So many recipes use only the white meat from a crab and shamelessly disregard the brown, but this one makes good use of both so it’s perfect for those times when you buy a dressed crab on impulse and don’t know what to do with it (or is it just me that does that?).

Combine the brown meat from a prepared crab with ½ a mashed avocado and the juice of half a lemon. Season well then fill the crab shell with the mixture.

Meanwhile cook a little linguini in salted water and put it on top of the shell. Finally sprinkle the white crab meat on top.

Variation: You could, if you wanted, mix the crab and avocado mixture in with the linguini before filling the shell with it. You could also serve it on a plate rather than in the shell, if you wanted to use more linguini, but I think this is quite cute for a starter.

Chorizo and Canellini Bean Soup

Chorizo is a spicy Spanish sausage made with paprika and garlic and packed full of flavour. It’s great in casseroles and soups like this one.

Chorizo and Canellini Bean soup

Serves 2-4

Ingredients
1 chorizo sausage
1 tin of canallini beans
1 leek
1 onion
1 stick of celery
1 tin of tomatoes
500ml – 1 litre of Vegetable stock (depending on how thin or thick you want the soup)

Slice the chorizo into bite sized pieces and fry in a little olive oil for a few minutes. Remove from the pan.

Finely chop the vegetables then add them to the pan and fry until softened in the olive oil that will now be coloured and flavoured with the chorizo.

Put the chorizo back in the pan with the vegetables and add the tomatoes, beans and stock. Season well then bring to the boil and simmer until the soup thickens to the consistency you like.

In the Bag: Cooking the Month of June - The Roundup

Check out June's roundup over at Cherry's English Kitchen!

Borough Market: Want to see More?

Remember my post on the fabulous gastro tour of Borough Market that I was invited to by Trusted Places? Well here is a great video of the tour so you can see it for yourself, along with links to posts about the tour from my fellow bloggers so you can see it through their eyes (and their cameras!). Enjoy!

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Other Posts about the Tour:

Aidan Brooks
Jam Faced
The Kitchen Pantry
Trusted Places
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