Jersey Shore Garlic Crabs
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Ready In: 40 mins
Serves: 3-4
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 dozen live blue crabs (live or cleaned)
- 4 teaspoons dried oregano
- 10 -15 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 26 ounces canned chopped tomatoes or 26 ounces puree
- 1 cup white wine or 1 cup white clam broth
- 1⁄2 lemon (halved)
Directions
- Clean crabs by covering them with slightly hot water.
- Leave 5 minutes to anestheize crabs.
- Remove back shell,lungs and rinse.
- In a large spagehetti pot add 2 tablespoons olive oil and 1/3 garlic.Saute 1 minute on low.
- Add 6 crabs and 1 teaspoon oregano.Saute 1 minute ,toss and add 1/3 can tomatoes.
- Repeat this process another 2 times until all crabs are added.
- Add wine or clam broth.
- Cover and cook on low for 10 minutes.
- Remove crabs to platter.
- Squeeze lemon and add to pot along with remaining oregano.
- Pour sauce over crabs on platter.
- Serve with linguine.
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