Soft shell blue crab
Soft shell blue crab

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, soft shell blue crab. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Soft shell blue crab is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Soft shell blue crab is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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 prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
  1. Prepare Soft shell blue crab
  2. Prepare 2 eggs (room temp)
  3. Make ready 1 cup butter milk
  4. Take 1 tsp Cajun season
  5. Take Salt/ pepper
  6. Make ready 2 cups self rising flour
  7. Prepare 1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
  8. Get 1 tsp salt
  9. Make ready Peanut or vegetable oil

There are specific considerations to remember when buying them. Contrary to popular belief, soft shell crabs aren't a separate species; they are just regular, hard shell crabs (most often blue crabs in the US) at a particular stage of growth. 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.

Instructions to make Soft shell blue crab:
  1. 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.
  2. Add flour and remainder of seasoning into paper bag and shake to blend together.
  3. 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…
  4. Fry until golden. Take out and drain excess oil on paper towel while you prepare to make your Po boy sandwich

The result can be served as an entre', or in a sandwich. When served between bread slices or crackers, the legs stick out on either side, and the. Maryland soft shell crab is incredibly tender and can be eaten whole, shell included! Soft-shelled crabs and hard-shelled crabs are of the same species. Blue crabs have a hard shell or exoskeleton.

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