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Hot Buttered Crab Claws–The New Normal

I like fried food just as much as the next Southerner, and growing up in Coastal Alabama, we all start liking fried seafood pretty early in life. I can remember my mother cutting up fried shrimp to put on my baby sister’s high chair tray. Fried fish had to be picked through incredibly carefully for any small child at the table for fear of bones, but picked through it was. And it wasn’t just seafood, either. By the time my oldest child was about 2, she would eat fried okra as long as I was willing to stand there and cook it. The amount of fresh okra that constitutes a mess of okra at my house has risen steadily beginning when she was a toddler*. My own trifecta of very favorite childhood foods was fried shrimp, fried okra, and fried chicken with rice and gravy, in that order. (Add to that watermelon, lime sherbet, lady peas, my mother’s lasagna, and sour cream and onion Charles’ Chips, and I would have followed you anywhere. But I digress.)

Back to fried foods: I don’t fry things so much anymore. Now I could stand here and insist that this was a health measure, but let’s get real: I don’t fry things at home because cleaning up afterward is a pain in the butt. And I’m trying to lessen things like that.

A few weeks back I was the happy recipient of some marvelous, fat, local, crab claws. Now we all know and love fried crab claws, but I have very rarely fixed them at home. I certainly didn’t want to break out the fryer. And I really like them floating around in my gumbo, but I wasn’t ready to make gumbo, either. Still, fresh crab claws–especially gifted ones!–are a bona fide treat and I wanted to do right by them. What I wanted was a crab claw recipe that was quick, easy every which way, and made me happy to be alive.

Behold! I have found it: Hot Buttered Crab Claws.

The recipe below is a riff on a recipe I tore out of a magazine and stuffed in my recipe box years ago. I have no idea which magazine–somehow I didn’t tear out any identifying information along with the recipe. Mea culpa. I made these amazing crab claws last week, and we ate them all up before I remembered to get a photo. (I KNOW. I am working on that.) I had two pounds, though, so I made them again today.

*Regarding okra: I got proactive the second time around and told my younger daughter that fried okra was horrible, slimy, and kept you awake, and she still won’t touch it, thank god. But, alas, where crab claws are concerned she can and will happily eat anyone under the table.

crab claws plate

Hot Buttered Crab Claws

This recipe is so quick to make, you should make it at the last minute and serve it immediately. In other words, before you even begin to cook, get out plates and napkins, and make a drink!

Ingredients

  • 1 stick butter
  • 2 scallions, finely sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 T. Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 dashes hot sauce
  • Juice of one lemon or two limes
  • 1 lb. Gulf crab claws, drained if necessary
  • Fresh ground black pepper
  • 1 T. Chopped fresh parsley
  • Bread for serving

Instructions

  • Melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat. Add the scallions and cook for two minutes. Add garlic and cook for another minute. Add Worcestershire, hot sauce, and lemon or lime juice. Stir to combine. Add crab claws and toss with the sauce just until they are hot. Sprinkle with parsley and black pepper.
  • Serve in individual bowls or just put the skillet in the middle of the table. But either way, make sure there is plenty of crusty bread to sop up the sauce.

And cleaning up is a breeze!

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