Grilled Crab Legs

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Ready In:
16mins
Ingredients:
2
Serves:
4
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ingredients

  • 3 -4 lbs king crab legs or 3 -4 lbs dungeness crab legs, cooked
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
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directions

  • Heat grill.
  • Brush both sides of crab legs with oil and place on hot grill 5" to 6" from coals Heat for 4 to 5 minutes, turning once.
  • Remove to plates and serve with the dipping sauce of your choice.
  • Red cocktail sauce, garlic butter sauce, or a thinned down guacamole dip are very nice dipping sauces.

Questions & Replies

  1. When you grill the crab legs are the still frozen or thawed out?
     
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Reviews

  1. Thanks for posting such a great recipe for Crab Legs. We use Old Bay Seasoning and some Cajun seasonings on the outside of the legs. This flavors the crab meat wonderfully without overpowering the meat. My family uses individual pairs of scissors to cut some of the leg portions open. It makes eating them less messy. Even my young Grandchildren will eat these easily prepared favorites.
     
  2. We're done our crab legs like this for years and it truly is the easiest and tastiest way to cook them. Don't have to deal with pots of smelly water or your cooked crab swimming in a dinner plate of water, either. Works just the same if you broil them in your oven, too. Keep that oven door cracked open, though. Keeps the broiler element on. Thanks, Molly53!!
     
  3. Very good, I recommend using olive oil and old bay's dry rub...delish!!!
     
  4. Great recipe! Just make sure you don't leave them on for more than five minutes because I got distracted and burnt the thin ends pretty badly. Can't wait to make them again and not screw up. Thank you.
     
  5. We followed your recipe with the addition of Creole Seasoning and Emeril's Essence. Thanks for the suggestion!
     
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