New potatoes 500g Onions 2 Butter and olive oil for frying Tomatoes 2, medium Red chilli 1 (optional) Watercress 2 or 3 handfuls Lemon 1, zested Crabmeat 1 medium-sized dressed crab or 200g of mixed crabmeat Sea salt flakes to season

Boil the potatoes in salted water for 10-15 minutes or until tender. Drain and cool before halving or cutting into chunks. Meanwhile, peel and chop the onions. Heat the butter and a tbsp of oil in a frying pan and, when foaming, tip in the onions and cook for 10-15 minutes or until softened. Meanwhile, chop the tomatoes, then halve, deseed and finely chop the chilli, if using. Roughly chop the watercress. When the onions are ready, tip them into a bowl and add the tomatoes, lemon zest, chilli, watercress and crab meat. Toss together. Add another slug of oil to the frying pan and fry the potatoes over a high heat until golden. Tip in all the other ingredients and toss everything together over the heat until hot and sizzling, adding salt to taste. Eat straight from the pan or pile onto two plates.

Barbecue, Mains

Crab, watercress, tomato and new potato hash

This hash recipe from Martin Dorey is perfect for late nights around the camp fire

Added on August 14, 2014

Martin Dorey, presenter of One Man and His Campervan, shares his quick and easy crab and potato hash recipe

www.martindorey.com

Serves 2

You will need

New potatoes 500g
Onions 2
Butter and olive oil for frying
Tomatoes 2, medium
Red chilli 1 (optional)
Watercress 2 or 3 handfuls
Lemon 1, zested
Crabmeat 1 medium-sized dressed crab or 200g of mixed crabmeat
Sea salt flakes to season

Method

Boil the potatoes in salted water for 10-15 minutes or until tender. Drain and cool before halving or cutting into chunks.
Meanwhile, peel and chop the onions. Heat the butter and a tbsp of oil in a frying pan and, when foaming, tip in the onions and cook for 10-15 minutes or until softened.
Meanwhile, chop the tomatoes, then halve, deseed and finely chop the chilli, if using. Roughly chop the watercress.
When the onions are ready, tip them into a bowl and add the tomatoes, lemon zest, chilli, watercress and crab meat. Toss together.
Add another slug of oil to the frying pan and fry the potatoes over a high heat until golden.
Tip in all the other ingredients and toss everything together over the heat until hot and sizzling, adding salt to taste.
Eat straight from the pan or pile onto two plates.

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You will need

New potatoes 500g
Onions 2
Butter and olive oil for frying
Tomatoes 2, medium
Red chilli 1 (optional)
Watercress 2 or 3 handfuls
Lemon 1, zested
Crabmeat 1 medium-sized dressed crab or 200g of mixed crabmeat
Sea salt flakes to season

Method

Boil the potatoes in salted water for 10-15 minutes or until tender. Drain and cool before halving or cutting into chunks.
Meanwhile, peel and chop the onions. Heat the butter and a tbsp of oil in a frying pan and, when foaming, tip in the onions and cook for 10-15 minutes or until softened.
Meanwhile, chop the tomatoes, then halve, deseed and finely chop the chilli, if using. Roughly chop the watercress.
When the onions are ready, tip them into a bowl and add the tomatoes, lemon zest, chilli, watercress and crab meat. Toss together.
Add another slug of oil to the frying pan and fry the potatoes over a high heat until golden.
Tip in all the other ingredients and toss everything together over the heat until hot and sizzling, adding salt to taste.
Eat straight from the pan or pile onto two plates.