Casquinha de Siri

Stuffed Baked Crabs

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Brazil: A Cook's Tour

By Christopher Idone

Published 1995

  • About

The word siri in the Tupi language means “to run, glide, or walk backward,” which is what crabs do.

Ingredients

  • Meat from 12 small cooked blue crabs, picked clean, or 1 pound fresh lump crabmeat, picked clean
  • 2

Method

Preheat the oven to 400°F.

Lightly grease 8 crab shells or 8 shallow ovenproof porcelain ramekins.

Finely shred the crabmeat and set aside.

Soak the bread in the milk and set aside.

Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the shallot