How To Boil Crab Legs Recipes

BOILED CRAB LEGS

Steps:

• Fill large stockpot or Dutch oven half full with water; add seafood seasoning and salt. Heat to boiling.
• Add crab legs. Cook 3 to 5 minutes or just until heated. Remove with tongs to serving platter. Serve warm with melted butter.

OLD BAY KING CRAB LEGS

Steps:

• Put the crab legs in the bottom of a large stockpot, then cover with 4 quarts of water and stir in the seafood seasoning (see Cook's Note). Halve the lemons and squeeze the juice into the pot, then add the rinds. Cover and bring to a boil, then cook over medium-high heat until the crab legs are warmed through, about 5 minutes. Remove the crab legs to a large serving bowl or platter.
• Meanwhile, melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook until the butter foams and simmers, about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and let stand 5 minutes. Using a spoon, remove any milk solids from the surface of the butter, then slowly pour the melted butter into a small serving bowl, leaving any watery, white whey behind in the saucepan. Serve alongside the crab legs.

HOW TO BOIL CRAB LEGS

Steps:

• Get a large pot and add water
• Wash crab legs
• Bring the pot to a steady boil
• Add a half tablespoon of salt
• Add the crab legs
• Over the pot so they can cook
• Remove the legs from the boiling water
• Serve them up on a plate

KING CRAB LEGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Place crab legs in a shallow baking pan.
• Heat butter in a small saucepan over medium heat until melted, about 3 minutes. Whisk in seafood seasoning, lemon juice, garlic, and olive oil. Brush crab legs with butter mixture and pour any remaining mixture over crab legs.
• Bake in the preheated oven until opaque and flaky, basting regularly with the butter mixture in the pan, 25 to 35 minutes.

STEAMED SNOW CRAB LEGS

Steps:

• In a large pasta pot with strainer insert, bring 3-4 cups water to boil. (Water amount may vary, but just keep below the level of the strainer portion of the pot.).
• Rinse ice from frozen crab legs, and place in the strainer insert of the pot. Cover.
• Steam crab legs for 6 to 14 minutes, or until heated through.
• Serve crab legs with clarified butter for dipping. (Recipe #51525 works well.).