How do you cook & eat a soft-shelled crab?

Answer 1

If you are cooking soft shell crab. You need to clean it properly. Buy them alive to get the ulitmate freshness. If they are dead make sure they do not smell like amoninia if they do do not eat them. You need to cut off the eyes and mouth with one shot. (use scissors) lift the slit up on both sides and rip out the gills. Make sure you rinse this really good or else you will be eating sand. While it is wet pat dry sprinkle a little sea salt and black pepper dust in flour and saute on med high heat in a non stick pan with olive oil. Cook until golden and bast it with the oil as it is cooking Total cooking time less than 4 min as long as your basting the crab. The internal temp should be more than 105F and below 120F. A nice mango mint relish with a little bit of lemon juice is a nice garnish for this dish/

Answer 2

After cleaning the gills out of them, a marinate of Old Bay seaoning and butterilk for 30 minutes, then dredge them in a mixture of flour, cormeal, salt and pepper, a touch of Old Bay. Cook until red and firm, 8-10 minutes.

Then either pan fry or deep fry, serve with either tartar sauce, remoulade or just lemon and butter.

Answer 3

Fried is the usual method in most restaurants. The "shell" is eatable. It's not a hard shell. The best part of soft shell crab.
They are harvested after they shed the old hard shell.

Yummy delicacy.

Answer 4

I've heard that batter fried in a sandwich is good but I've never had it

Answer 5

Boil for 2 hours, then crack the shell and dip in galric butter

Answer 6

well you clean devil out and fry it till red yummy

Answer 7

fry it

or

bake it