Grilled Dungeness Crab

Name: Grilled Dungeness Crab
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 8 to 10 cloves garlic, peeled; ½ cup olive oil; 2 live Dungeness crabs, 2 to 3 pounds each; 6 serrano chilies; crab butter (optional); ½ teaspoon salt; 1 cup salsa

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Jeremiah Tower's New American Classics

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 1986

About

Any large fresh crabs will do here, if you can’t obtain Dungeness.

Ingredients

2 live Dungeness crabs, 2 to 3 pounds each
6 serrano chilies

Americas
United States
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Divide the crabs in half by holding the claw and legs on 1 side of the crab in each hand and smashing the underside of the crab against the edge of a table or sink. Then twist the 2 sides in alternate directions, pulling the body away from the top shell. Clean out the body parts, removing the gills and other debris. Scoop out the coral from the shell and save for crab butter (recipe follows), i