Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, soft shell blue crab. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Soft shell crabs, or "softies" are blue crabs that have recently molted their shell. They are harvested before they can regrow a new shell, so their skin is soft. This means their entire bodies are edible: shell, claws, and all.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook soft shell blue crab using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Soft shell blue crab:
- Prepare Soft shell blue crab
- Prepare 2 eggs (room temp)
- Prepare 1 cup butter milk
- Take 1 tsp Cajun season
- Take Salt/ pepper
- Get 2 cups self rising flour
- Take 1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Make ready Peanut or vegetable oil
The crab is then battered in flour, egg, and seasoning, then fried in oil until crispy. MD Soft Crabs Blue Crab Trading Soft-Shell Crabs: Harvesting Soft Shell Crabs for over twenty years, our crew guarantees a fully molted, cleaned and dressed crab for your culinary needs. To ensure our soft crabs arrive in the best possible condition, we briefly flash freeze them. Product Description: Small in size but big in taste; these blue crabs caught just after molting (before the new shell has had time to harden) are prepared as soft shell crabs.
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
The crab is then battered in flour, egg and seasoning then fried in oil until crispy. The result can be served as an entree' or in a sandwich. Directions: Rinse soft shell crab well with cold water and dry. Take a bowl and beat an egg with some milk. In another bowl, add pepper and salt with some flour.
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