Humboldt Dungeness Crab

Humboldt Dungeness Crab
(Cooked in 14" Deep Camp Oven)

Ingredients:
4 live or fresh dungeness crab
1/2 cup rock salt
water

Directions:
Fill dutch oven with water & add rock salt.
(If confined to cooking indoors, add 1 small jar of pickling spice - It will sweeten the meat and keep your kitchen free of fowl odor afterwards)
Bring to a boil & submerge crab.
Increase heat until water begins to boil again.
Reduce heat & cook 15-17 minutes, uncovered or loosely covered.
Remove crab from boiling water and rinse in cold water in separate container.
Clean crab, crack meat & ENJOY!!!


Humboldt Dungeness Crab Ciopinno

(For 14" dutch oven)

4 or 5 crab
½ cup chopped parsley
2 stalks celery chopped
1 cup chopped swiss chard
8 cloves garlic chopped
2 medium onions diced
1 chopped small hot red chili or cayenne pepper (Optional)
2 -- 28 oz. canned crushed tomatoes
1 -- 6 oz. canned tomato paste
1 -- 16 oz. canned tomato sauce
½ cup burgundy wine (Optional, otherwise substitute with water)


Saute onions and chopped garlic in oil.
Add celery, chard and parsley and sauté until tender.
Add crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste and wine or water.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Add crab, making sure crab is submerged in ciopinno sauce, if not add more wine or water.
Simmer at least 45 minutes with occasional gentle stirring to prevent sticking.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Outdoor Cast Iron Cooking
• outdoorcastironcook
• Humboldt County
• California
• Dutch Oven
• Lodge Cast Iron
• Holiday Tradition

[outdoorcastironcook]

Lucky for us that Dean has been able to go out crabbing so much lately.

Thanks for your feedback.

[rkmugen]

Some people like to get all fancy when they cook crab. But when you get crab as fresh as this, straight out of the cold, salt water environment and cook 'em up in nothing more than water and some salt, you get the real, natural savory-sweet flavor of the meat. Keeping the crab whole (not removing the crab butter before cooking), imparts even more of the natural, rich flavor into the fibers of the meat.  I personally love it with lemon/lime & soy sauce or just a plain garlic butter dip.

[satguy11]

I crab in the PNW too. Great video!

[ShariShimmers77]

Love crab! An Australian Christmas specialty is a seafood platter - nearly every household has seafood at Christmas time!!

[TangoSpiceCompany]

Fantastic video, always great watching where you are cookin' up a great meal!

[Trailtraveller]

yummy

[CAROLYNSCOCIOZ]

Sure looks good, you should have had some rolls cooking as well, nothing beats fresh cooked crab on fresh rolls with real butter. YUM

[JoeandZachSurvival]

That was a great video, we have lots of things up here in Minnesota and lots of game and fish up at the tent where lots of our videois are made, but we do not have crab and that looked delicious, and you explained that flawlessly. Very nicely done, Thank you for posting that , I really liked watching.

Joe

[2024JayZ]

That looks so good Crab is up there with my favorite foods So did ya add any of them Humboldt special herbs to the water ? lol

[setheea23]

please don't ever stop making videos!