Which are your favourite recipes featuring crab?
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I was intrigued by some British pastas featuring crab.
I cobbled one together tonight, using frozen snow crab.
I based the idea on these 2 recipes.
There are dozens of pasta with chili crab recipes online.
My pasta included sautéed onion, garlic, tomatoes, olive oil, Aleppo pepper, Italian crushed chiles, lemon juice, fresh basil and olive oil, topped with toasted breadcrumbs.
More Chilli Crab pastas
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- crab curry
- crab curry
- crab curry
After that, crab cakes without much filler.
Any pasta with crabmeat. I have had several versions of that lemony crab pasta you posted, and they were all delicious (but varied on skimpiness of crab).
Vietnamese / Thai crab fried rice – though that tends to be just a pile of lump crab on top of fried rice. I’ll take it.
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I haven’t had a proper crab curry. Will have to try to seek one out.
I had some nice crab at a Thai restaurant, ages ago, but the crab was in its shell. Very messy.
Indeed. Eating crab should be messy!
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Maryland crab cakes.
Maryland crab soup.
Because I grew up with them.
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For me, breaded soft crab fried in lard (My grandmother made this for me when I was a small child) So YUMMY!!
For Sunshine it is Sushi (California Rolls), these were made with imitation crab, as that is about all you can get in the desert (unless you are really willing to pay up for real crab)
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• Dungeness cracked crab with lots of lemon wedges and BF mayo
• Dungeness crab Quiche
• Hot Dungeness crab sandwiches (Thank you, Fenton’s)
• Cold Dungeness crab sandwiches (Thank you, Oak Knoll Market meat counter)
• Hot Dungeness (of course) fondue
• Dungeness crab mold
• Dungeness crab cakes
• Dungeness Crab Rangoons
• and back in the day there was Mrs. Paul’s Deviled Crab Balls
I live for Dungeness season. I have fond memories of eating Dungeness every week from December to April. Now I am lucky if I get it in twice during the season. 
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I miss crab . I used to buy them live at the harbor in Santa Cruz.
Into boiling water for 16 minutes. Plunge into the kitchen sink filled with ice no water . Chill for 30 minutes. Then into the fridge for 30 minutes.
Stand over sink with a beer . Crack and eat .
Truthful. Ive never have bought a whole cooked crab
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I go with Dungeness steamed for 18 mins, trivet and plate at the bottom, inch or two of water. Can fit 2 in the 16 quart stock pot. Served with decent bread and/or garlic noodles, green salad on side. Melted butter on the side but if the crabs are fresh and local, butter isn’t needed IMO.
Before pandemic use to have a crab feed for 12-15 people. Rule of thumb is one crab per person, plus one more. A good next day leftover meal is garlic noodles with leftover crab…before it goes bad.
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I know I’m sounding like a broken record, but anything that can approximate the greatness that is known as the Dungeness Crab Louie at Swan’s Oyster Depot.
Also, I have a soft spot for crab soup with tomatoes and roasted red peppers, crab meat enchiladas, and maki rolls made with blue crab.
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Always Dungeness
Crab gumbo
Crab melt
Crab boil
Crab bisque
Crab chowder
Crab Louie
And of course just crack and eat and crab cakes.
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Truth be told, I havent come across a crab recipe that beats a simple crab sandwich. The bread “buttered” with the brown meat, then the white meat piled on with a little lettuce for crispness. It’s a summer highlight of a trip to the coast - none better than on the terrace of the Jolly Fisherman in Craster, Northumberland overlooking the village harbour where the crabs are landed. Although, last trip, we went for dinner when they don’t offer sandwiches, so settled for a lovely crab salad.
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I had dressed crab at Tynemouth on my visit in 2016.
I like crab sandwiches, rarely see them in Canada
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My absolutely favorite food. For me, crabs are always best enjoyed either just steamed, grilled in it’s natural juices (on a konro grill), or a light stir fry with ginger and scallions. I do enjoy the “typhoon style” version that is in Hong Kong, but it’s hard to get that outside of the area. Crab meat is so sweet and succulent that I prefer not to douse it in heavy flavored sauces.
But what I do also like when I have fresh or good crab meat:
Chawanmushi
Crab fried rice, and there’s a popular version with sticky rice too
A light crab salad with a vinaigrette dressing
(Something like this: https://japan.recipetineats.com/crab-and-cucumber-salad-with-sweet-vinegar-dressing-amazu/)
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The Cantonese version with salted egg. I don’t remember the exact name.
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Thank you for starting this.
My crab repertoire is so limited. So, I’ll be watching this thread for ideas. Mostly I use it in cakes (not very often made; mostly just on a whim) and in fisherman’s stew type preps.
This reminds me (not topically, just generally) that I want to start a “what to do with bacon?” thread,
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Feel free to start a new bacon thread. 
I’ll add some links to some old ones for your reference.
From 2016:
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Thanks!
How do you find these so easily? I did a search on bacon and got like 10 bazillion hits, many not really relevant.
Do you really keep all these (these = actually relevant) in your head???
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