Crab Recipes

Crab is another delicious seafood option and you can find innumerous crab recipes.

Whole crabs and crabmeat can be prepared in a variety of ways including frying, steaming, broiling or in soups.

To cook crabs simply throw them in a pot of boiling water and cook them for twenty minutes for crabs up to 2lb and add five minutes per extra pound. The shell of some varieties turn red when they are done.

See also Seafood Buying Tips, and Handling and Storing Tips.

Our list of Crab Recipes:
Click here to see several Crab Cake Recipes
Click here to see several Seafood Gumbo Recipes



Crab Tetrazzini
Spaghetti with Crab and Arugula
Crab Crepes
Risotto with Crabmeat and Basil
Crab Fried Rice
Lobster and Crab Ravioli
Penne in Tomato Sauce with Crabmeat
Baked Crab Quesadillas
Crab Souffle
Spaghettini with Crabmeat
Crab Stuffed Potatoes
Crab with Snow Peas
Crab Diablo
Crab and Avocado Enchiladas
Avocado Filled with Crabmeat
Crabmeat Casserole
Asparagus and Crabmeat Salad
Hot Crab Salad
Crab Gumbo
Chinese Pasta Salad
Seafood Casserole
Salad with Crab and Pasta
Layered Crab Salad Recipe
Crab Bisque Recipe
Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
Crab Imperial Recipe
Hot Crab Dip Recipe
Hot Crab Dip 2
Hot Crab Dip 3
Hot Crab Dip 4
Chinese Crab Chowder with Corn
Casquinha de Siri (Stuffed Crab Shells)
Crab Meat with Cheese and Sherry
Crabby Mushrooms
Patout's Hot Crab Dip Recipe
Rice with Shrimps and Crabmeat
Cajun Crab Soup Recipe
Crab Crostini
Crab Imperial
Easy Imperial Crab
Fettucini with Crab Recipe
Crab Macaroni Salad Recipe
Crab Salad Recipe
Easy Crab Salad Recipe
Crab Soup Recipe

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Some General Information about Crabs:
There are over 4,000 variety of crab from fresh and salt water, being the species from salt water more abundant. The most common crabs are listed below:

• King crab, also referred to as Alaska king crab and Japanese king crab, is found in the North Pacific and can weigh 10-15pounds. Its delicately flavored meat is snowy white and edged with a beautiful bright red, and it is an excellent source of high-quality protein, while low in fat and calories.

• Snow crab is found in North Pacific and Canada's east coast, measuring up to 3 feet across. Its flesh has a slightly saltyflavor ans is white tinged with pink.

• Blue crab is found in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico and it has this name bacause of its blue claws and dark blue-green shell. It is sold both as the hard-shell variety and as soft-shelled, being in the United States the blue crab mostly eaten in its soft-shell variation. Blue crabs are extremely high in vitamin B12 with just three ounces of crab meat having a full daily allowance.

• Stone crabs can be found from North Carolina to Texas coast and is most abundant in Florida waters. Only the claw meat is eaten, which has a firm texture and a sweet, succulent flavor. It is sold precooked and usually frozen because the meat has a tendency to adhere to the shell if frozen raw.

• Rock crabs and Jonah crabs both can be found on the northeast coast of the United States; rock crabs can also be found alongthe west coast. Their flesh is white, firm, moist and sweet.

• Golden crabs are found in the south Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico. Its delicate meat is white flecked with red.