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Stir Fried Dungeness Crab

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By: Cindy Lam Lorimer
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Servings: 5
Stir Fry Dungeness Crab is a sumptuous dish featuring succulent crab meat cooked in a flavorful stir-fry sauce with shallots, green onions, and ginger, finished with butter for added richness.

Ingredients 

  • 5 Dungeness crabs
  • ⅓ cup avocado oil, or any neutral oil
  • ½ cup shallots, sliced
  • ⅓ cup ginger, sliced
  • 4 garlic cloves, smashed
  • 1 jalapeño, sliced (more if you like it spicier)
  • 2 Tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 Tbsp mushroom powder
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, preferably Beurre Bettel, otherwise any butter will do
  • ½ cup rau ram or basil or cilantro, roughly chopped
  • 5 green onions, cut into one inch pieces

Instructions

  • To cook the crab humanely, put them in the freezer for 15-20 minutes so they go to sleep. Then steam crabs for 15 minutes by putting them in a hot steamer. You will want to steam them until almost done but not fully cooked.
  • Remove from steamer and let them cool. Once done cooling, pull the shell off, remove the gills, and cut the crabs in half from top to bottom. Then cut them in half again, so you have four crab pieces.
  • If juice in crab is clear and not black, reserve the juice to add into the wok when stir frying.
  • In a wok, on medium high heat, add oil and once hot, add shallots, ginger, garlic, sliced jalapeños and stir fry for a couple of minutes. Add fish sauce, sugar, mushroom powder, salt and pepper along with the crab juice and mix together in the wok. Then add butter. As soon as butter melts, add steamed crab pieces. Mix sauce with the crab to coat it evenly for one minute.
  • Put lid over wok, reduce heat to medium, and let it steam for 5 minutes to finish cooking the crab. Turn off the heat. Add rau ram and green onions, mix it in. Transfer to a big bowl or plate and serve!
  • I like to dip the crabmeat in a lime dipping sauce consisting of fresh squeezed lime with salt and pepper. However, the crabmeat is so tasty, that this dipping sauce is not needed.

Nutrition

Serving: 1portion | Calories: 466kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 30g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 145mg | Sodium: 540mg | Potassium: 749mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1015IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 110mg | Iron: 1mg

Equipment

  • wok

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