Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, soft shell blue crab. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Soft shell blue crab is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Soft shell blue crab is something that I have loved my whole life.
Blue Crab Trading takes pride in our product and strives for satisfaction. Commercial fishermen harvest Blue Crabs on the east coast and hold them in tanks and monitor them for molting. After each crab have molted, they are quickly removed from the tank to stop the shell from hardening.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook soft shell blue crab using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Soft shell blue crab:
- Prepare Soft shell blue crab
- Prepare 2 eggs (room temp)
- Get 1 cup butter milk
- Take 1 tsp Cajun season
- Prepare Salt/ pepper
- Prepare 2 cups self rising flour
- Prepare 1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Get Peanut or vegetable oil
Maryland Soft Shell Crabs: Blue crabs go through a molting process shedding its outer shell and leaving a delicate soft shell crab that is exploding with flavor. Several methods for preparing soft shell crabs are baked, sauteed, deep fried, or pan fried. Other ways of cooking will give equally tasty results. The delicious soft shell crab…mmmmm soooo good….is a Chesapeake Bay regional specialty.
Steps to make Soft shell blue crab:
- Rinse off blue crab and place on paper towel to drain. Crack both eggs in a bowl and add buttermilk. Add Cajun seasoning and mix. Add a pinch of salt and pepper. Turn on stove to medium heat and allow oil to heat up. Preferably in a cast iron skillet or heavy bottom pan.
- Add flour and remainder of seasoning into paper bag and shake to blend together.
- Add blue crab to flour. Dust off excess and add to egg mixture. Cover completely in egg. Add back to the bag of seasoned flour. Cover entire crab in flour. Add a pinch of flour to see if oil is ready to fry if it’s bubbling when the flour is added, it ready, if not allow oil to continue to heat. You may need to turn the heat up slightly above medium…
- Fry until golden. Take out and drain excess oil on paper towel while you prepare to make your Po boy sandwich
A culinary delight that makes mouths water every time a softy dish is The MD drivers license has a lovely little blue crab in the corner. While I pointed to that little corner crab, I said, "this gives me the. Soft shell crabs are prepared by first cutting out the gills, face, and guts. The crab is then battered in flour, egg, and seasoning, then fried in oil until crispy. The result can be served as an entre', or in a sandwich.
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