Boiled Crab
Posted in /Cooking/Entrees/Seafood on Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Sometimes crab is on sale even out west in the prairies. Be warned that one dungeoness crab will easily feed 2 adults. So if you have leftovers as we did use them for lobster rolls or seafood bisque
Ingredients
Water
Salt
Crabs
Butter
Old Bay Seasoning
Directions
1. Keep crabs happy in heavily salted water while you boil a lot more water.
2. Place crabs in boiling water, or in a heat proof container pour boiling water over crabs. I poured the boiling water into the smaller side of my well cleaned sink
3. Keep crabs in the boiling water for 10 minutes then cover the crabs in ice.
4. Break the top of the body cavity off the boiled crabs and begin to remove the cooked flesh. Be careful there will be a lot of greenish water in the body cavity. Pour this into a bowl to dispose of later along with the stomach of the crab. Remove the white flesh for eating
5. Use seafood crackers and kitchen shears to break the legs, so you can access the meat.
6. Enjoy with melted butter and old bay seasoning
Here is a how to video on opening the crab
FYI
- If you happen to have larger eyes than your stomach like we do. You'll have leftover crab, probably quite a bit. You will likely only need 1/2 a large dungeoness crab per person.
- You may like to make Crab Bisque with your leftovers.
- If you're making bisque keep a few of the shells to add to the stock.
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