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":/Cooking/Entrees/Seafood/Lobster_Rolls.html or "seafood bisque":/Cooking/Entrees/Seafood/Seafood_Bisque.html
Ingredients
Water
Salt
Crabs
Butter
Old Bay Seasoning
Directions
- Keep crabs happy in heavily salted water while you boil a lot more water.
- 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
- Keep crabs in the boiling water for 10 minutes then cover the crabs in ice.
- 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
- Use seafood crackers and kitchen shears to break the legs, so you can access the meat.
- Enjoy with melted butter and old bay seasoning
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.
