Oven-Roasted Dungeness Crab

Name: Oven-Roasted Dungeness Crab
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters (1/2 stick) butter; 2 kilograms large Dungeness crabs, cooked, cleaned, and cracked (about; 2 Tbsps chopped fresh parsley, divided; 2 Tbsps chopped fresh thyme, divided; 2 Tbsps minced garlic; 59 milliliters olive oil; 118 milliliters blood orange juice or regular orange juice; 1 teaspoon finely grated blood orange peel or regular orange peel; 2 teaspoons dried crushed red pepper; 1 Tbsp minced shallot

Need a gluten free, primal, and pescatarian main course? Oven-Roasted Dungeness Crab could be a spectacular recipe to try. One portion of this dish contains about 170g of protein, 60g of fat, and a total of 1325 calories. This recipe covers 66% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 2. If you have olive oil, dungeness crabs, shallot, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 500°F. Melt butter with oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in garlic, shallot, and dried crushed red pepper.

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Add crabs; sprinkle with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Sprinkle 1 tablespoon chopped thyme and 1 tablespoon chopped parsley over crabs. Stir to combine.

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Parsley

Thyme

Place skillet in oven and roast crabs until heated through, stirring once, about 12 minutes.

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Using tongs, transfer crabs to platter.

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Add orange juice and peel to same skillet; boil until sauce is reduced by about half, about 5 minutes. Spoon sauce over crabs.

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Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon thyme and 1 tablespoon parsley and serve.

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These large crabs are prized for their sweet, tender meat. They're named for Dungeness, Washington, where they were first harvested commercially, but they are caught in the Pacific Ocean all the way from Alaska to Mexico.

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Servings:

59milliliters

(1/2 stick) butter 2kilograms

large Dungeness crabs, cooked, cleaned, and cracked (about 2Tbsps

chopped fresh parsley, divided 2Tbsps

chopped fresh thyme, divided 2Tbsps

minced garlic 59milliliters

olive oil 118milliliters

blood orange juice or regular orange juice 1teaspoon

finely grated blood orange peel or regular orange peel 2teaspoons

dried crushed red pepper 1Tbsp

minced shallot

Recommended wine: Chardonnay, Muscadet, Riesling

Shellfish can be paired with Chardonnay, Muscadet, and Riesling. Buttery chardonnay is great for scallops, shrimp, crab, and lobster, while muscadet is a classic pick for mussels, oysters, and clams. If you've got some spice in your shellfish, a semi-dry riesling can balance out the heat. The La Crema Russian River Chardonnay with a 4.1 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 28 dollars per bottle.