Charbroiled Soft Shell Crabs

Frank from Houma

Too windy to go fishing so I did a little Eggxperimenting last night.

Made a butter sauce (approximated the sauce Drago's rest in New Orleans uses for charbroiled oysters)
1 stick butter
1/2 cup olive oil
1/3 cup garlic
1/3 cup green onions
1/3 cup red bell pepper
1 Tbsp of DP Swamp Venom
2 sprigs thyme
1 bay leaf

Let the sauce simmer until the bell pepper was cooked. Set it aside to cool then refrigerated overnight. Reheated prior to use and removed the sprigs of thyme and bay leaf.

Dusted the soft shells with flour and put them on the SBGE


Added a little sauce


Little more sauce


Added a hanful of romano and a handful of parmesan cheese


Turned and repeated - Whoooaaa Nellie!! (ala Keith Jackson)


Plated with angel hair, added more cheese, bunch of lump crabmeat, and more sauce

Got a little extra char on a couple legs - wonder how that happened? :blink:
These were real nice.

Have three more in the freezer - next time I will:
Eliminate the bay leaf and thyme - didn't do anything
More garlic
Put the dry seasoning directly on the crab
Put the cheese on first then spoon the butter sauce on just before taking the crabs off.

bobbyb

Frank,
That looks outstanding!

Zippylip

Towering Inferno :evil: , great looking plate of pasta, yet another of its fifty-seven billion uses :cheer:

TomM24

Frank:

They look really good. You went a more complicated route. I took a simpler route and they were very good.

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Mine would have been to spicy to pair up with angel hair.

Beli

Nice photos and cook Frank. Do you get fresh Crabs over there. Will it be different with frozen ones.

Frank from Houma

You pretty close, so I'm guessing you have been by Grate, Grills and More. We stopped there on our way up the Eggtoberfest for lunch. I had pulled pork nachos - nice.

Frank from Houma

Beli,

These were frozen. Not sure if I could get them fresh.

Marc from IL

WOW Looks Good