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Stir Fried Dungeness Crab

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By: Cindy Lam Lorimer
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 5
Stir Fry Dungeness Crab is a sumptuous dish featuring succulent crab meat cooked in a flavorful stir-fry sauce with shallots, green onions, and ginger, finished with butter for added richness.

Ingredients 

  • 5 Dungeness crabs
  • ⅓ cup avocado oil, or any neutral oil
  • ½ cup shallots, sliced
  • ⅓ cup ginger, sliced
  • 4 garlic cloves, smashed
  • 1 jalapeño, sliced (more if you like it spicier)
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 2 Tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 Tbsp mushroom powder
  • 1 ½ tsp kosher salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, preferably Beurre Bettel, otherwise any butter will do
  • ½ cup rau ram, roughly chopped (or cilantro or both)
  • 5 green onions, cut into one inch pieces

Instructions

  • To cook the crab humanely, put them in the freezer for an hour or two so they go to sleep.
  • Remove from freezer and steam crabs for 15 minutes. You will want to steam them until almost done but not fully cooked.
  • Remove from steamer and let them cool.
  • Once done cooling, pull the shell off, remove the gills, and cut the crabs in half from top to bottom.
  • Then cut them in half again, so you have four crab pieces per crab.
  • In a wok, on medium high heat, add oil and once hot, add shallots, ginger, garlic, sliced jalapeños and stir fry for a couple of minutes.
  • Add sugar, fish sauce, mushroom powder, salt and pepper and mix together in the wok.
  • Add butter.
  • As soon as butter melts, add steamed crab pieces.
  • Mix sauce with the crab to coat it evenly.
  • Put lid over wok and let it steam for 5 minutes to finish cooking the crab.
  • Turn off the heat. Add rau ram and green onions, mix it in.
  • Transfer to a big bowl or plate and serve!
  • I like to dip the crabmeat in a lime dipping sauce consisting of fresh squeezed lime with salt and pepper. However, the crabmeat is so tasty, that this dipping sauce is not needed.

Nutrition

Serving: 1portion | Calories: 469kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 30g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 145mg | Sodium: 1803mg | Potassium: 771mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 997IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 110mg | Iron: 1mg

Equipment

  • wok

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