Crab Soup

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste

By Ole Mouritsen

Published 2014

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Ingredients

  • 2 kg ( lb) small live crabs
  • 100 g (

Method

  1. Sort the crabs carefully and discard dead ones, if any. Even one dead crab can spoil the soup. Cut the vegetables coarsely into cubes.
  2. Lightly sauté the crabs in very hot oil in a pot with a thick bottom.
  3. Add the vegetables and stir to coat with the oil, then add the wine and vermouth, together with the puréed tomato, bay leaves, thyme, dill, chile pe