Crab Fideos with Broken Garlic Oil

Name: Crab Fideos with Broken Garlic Oil
Ingredients: parsley stalks, fennel fronds; 2 heads garlic, crushed with most skins removed; 1 cup celery leaves; 1 bunch scallions, chopped; 2 tablespoons canned crushed tomato; salt, pepper, cayenne; 1 cup olive oil, pure; 1 pound fresh crab meat; 6 ripe roma tomatoes or 1 pint cherry tomatoes, chopped; 1/2 bottle white wine; sprigs of fresh thyme and 1 bay leaf; pinch of saffron; 1 pound Goya fideos (vermicelli-type noodles); lemon juice; rind of 1 orange; 3 live rock crabs, quartered with cleaver. Save all liquid. Discard head sac.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Culinary Artistry

By Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

Published 1996

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Ingredients

1 cup olive oil, pure
3 live rock crabs, quartered with cleaver. Save all liquid. Discard head sac.
2 he

Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

In a large stock pot pour in 1/2 cup olive oil. Heat to smoking and drop in 1/2 of the crab bodies. Do not shake pan. When browned, remove and brown the second half. Add 1/4 cup more oil t