Spider crab and samphire salad, with new potatoes and roasted tomatoes

Salads

Spider crab and samphire salad, with new potatoes and roasted tomatoes

Name: Spider crab and samphire salad, with new potatoes and roasted tomatoes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4

Serves 4 50 min

Make this summer salad to celebrate the brief samphire season. It calls for a few steps of preparation, but the result is a great combination of intense roasted tomatoes, salty samphire, tender potatoes and fresh crab. Spider crab has a lovely light, sweet flavour, but if you can't find it use brown crab instead.

Ingredients

12 cherry tomatoes, cut in ½ crossways
4 tbsp olive oil
800g new potatoes, scrubbed clean and cut in ½ or ¼'s, depending on size
200g samphire, washed
200g cooked white spider crab meat
few basil leaves, shredded
few tarragon leaves, shredded
lemon juice, to taste
salt and pepper

Method

Prep time: 10 min

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1
Preheat oven to 180°C/Gas 4.
Step 2
Put the cherry tomatoes on a non-stick baking tray and drizzle with a couple of tablespoons of the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Step 3
Roast in the oven for 30-40 minutes. They should be sticky and just starting to caramelise. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
Step 4
While the tomatoes are cooking, put the potatoes in a pan of salted water. Bring to the boil and cook the potatoes for about 10 -15 minutes, depending on size, until tender. Drain and leave to cool.
Step 5
Cook the samphire in another pan of boiling water for 1 minute. Drain and plunge into a pan of cold water, then drain again and leave to cool.
Step 6
In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, tomatoes, samphire, crab meat and herbs. Add the rest of the olive oil and lemon juice to taste and season with black pepper. You probably won't need any extra salt to season, as the samphire is salty enough, but taste before you serve.