Sauteed Crabs

Name: Sauteed Crabs
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 12 hard shell crabs or 1/2 lb crabmeat; 3 tablespoons lemon juice; 4 tablespoons butter; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/8 teaspoon pepper; 2 red bell peppers, seeded and chopped

Submitted by Molly53

"Fresh crabs are very common on the Gulf Coast. From the Creole chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

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Ready In:: 40mins
Ingredients:: 6
Serves:: 6

ingredients

12 hard shell crabs or 1/2 lb crabmeat
3 tablespoons lemon juice
4 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
¹⁄₈ teaspoon pepper
2 red bell peppers, seeded and chopped

directions

Wash crabs; drop head first into rapidly boiling salted water and cook for 20 minutes.
Drain water and open crabs; clean and reserve yellow fat.
Pour lemon juice over crab meat.
Melt butter and crab fat in a frying pan; add crab meat, seasonings and chopped pepper.
Cook for 20 minutes.