How To Make Roasted Dungeness Crab
Meaty and delicious, Dungeness crab is coated with black peppercorns, butter, and salt then popped in the oven for a perfectly roasted seafood dish.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp black peppercorns
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 lb Dungeness crab
- lemon wedges
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Using the flat side of the knife, press down and smashed the black peppercorns.
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Chop the black pepper roughly. Heat up the butter in the microwave, then add the black pepper and salt. Stir to mix well.
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To kill a live Dungeness crab, stab the crab in the middle of the body, above its abdominal flab.
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Set aside for 10 minutes, until all the murky dark water from inside the Dungeness crab drains out. Rinse and pat dry with water.
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Coat the butter-black-pepper mixture on the crab and roast in oven for 30 minutes.
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Remove from oven, garnish with lemon wedges.
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Serve immediately and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 1g
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- Calcium: 80mg
- Calories: 236kcal
- Carbohydrates: 2g
- Cholesterol: 120mg
- Fat: 13g
- Fiber: 1g
- Iron: 1mg
- Potassium: 561mg
- Protein: 27g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Sodium: 642mg
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Vitamin A: 500IU
- Vitamin C: 5mg
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