Ingredients
- 12 Cooked & picked blue crabs
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 3 stalks celery, finely chopped
- 1 large sweet red pepper, finely chopped
- 6 cloves of garlic, minced
- 25-35 crackers, crushed fine I use Ritz
- 1 stick of real butter, salted or unsalted your choice
- Crab boil, such as Zatarain's
- Fresh or dried parsley, minced
- Tony Chachere's More Spice Seasoning
Directions
- Bring 8-10 quarts of water and 1 cup of crab boil to a rolling boil.
- Add live crabs and cook for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and hot soak 15 minutes.
- If you like spicy food add ice and cool soak 15 more minutes.
- Pick crabs and thoroughly clean shells, set aside.
- Saute vegetables and garlic in 2 tablespoons butter until soft.
- Sprinkle with crab boil to taste.
- Fold crushed crackers into vegetable mixture. Reserve a little.
- LIGHTLY fold crab into crackers and vegetables.
- Stuff into cleaned crab shells.
- Top with a sprinkling of cracker crumbs, butter, parsley & Tony's.
- Bake at 400* until crackers are lightly browned, about 15 minutes
- You can save a lot of time by buying lump crab meat and baking containers used specifically for stuffed crabs.
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Nutrition Facts
Amount Per Serving | %DV |
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Serving Size 180g | |
Recipe makes 4 servings | |
Calories 288 | |
Calories from Fat 209 | 73% |
Total Fat 23.79g | 30% |
Saturated Fat 14.69g | 59% |
Trans Fat 0.0g | |
Cholesterol 110mg | 37% |
Sodium 372mg | 16% |
Potassium 408mg | 12% |
Total Carbs 6.48g | 2% |
Dietary Fiber 1.6g | 5% |
Sugars 3.01g | 2% |
Protein 12.66g | 20% |
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