List of crab dishes

This is a list of crab dishes. Crabs live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton and are arthropoda and have a single pair of claws. Crab meat is the meat found within a crab. It is used in many cuisines around the world.

Crab dishes

• Bisque (food) – a smooth, creamy, highly seasoned soup of French origin, classically based on a strained broth (coulis) of crustaceans. It can be made from lobster, crab, shrimp or crayfish.
• Black pepper crab – one of the two most popular ways that crab is served in Malaysia and Singapore. It is made with hard-shell crabs, and fried with black pepper. Unlike the other popular chilli crab dish, it is less heavy due to the absence of a sauce.
• Dressed crab- the cold meat of a brown crab served in a shell with bread, seasonings, and salad, traditional in British cuisine.
• Bún riêu – Bún riêu cua is served with tomato broth and topped with crab or shrimp paste.
• chilli
  -based sauce.
• Corn crab soup – a dish found in Chinese cuisine, American Chinese cuisine, and Canadian Chinese cuisine, it is actually cream of corn soup with egg white and crab meat or imitation crab meat added.
• bread crumbs
  , milk, mayonnaise, eggs, yellow onions, and seasonings.
• Crab dip – typically prepared with cream cheese and lump crab meat.
• Crab ice cream^[1] – a Japanese creation,^[2] it is described as having a sweet taste. The island of Hokkaido, Japan, is known for manufacturing crab ice cream.^[3]
• Crab in oyster sauce – a Chinese seafood dish of crab served in savoury oyster sauce. It is a popular dish in Asia, that can be found from China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia to the Philippines.^[4]
• Padang sauce. It is a popular dish in Indonesia.^[5]
• scallions, and/or garlic
  .
• spanner crabs
  in coconut milk with various spices
• deep fried.^[6]
• Dressed crab - a traditional English cuisine seafood meal^[7]
• Echizen kanimeshi - a type of ekiben from Fukui Prefecture, on the coast of the Sea of Japan
• Ganzuke - a variety of shiokara, salted fermented seafood in Japanese cuisine
• ganjang (soy sauce) or in a sauce based on chili pepper
  powder. A similar dish (生腌蟹) exists in China.

• flower crab in coconut milk with calabaza

  and spices

• spanner crabs
  in coconut milk
• Halabos - Filipino crabs (or other crustaceans) cooked in saltwater with spices
• black crabs
  in coconut milk and taro leaves.
• Kakuluwo curry - a traditional Sri Lankan crab curry.
• Kanijiru - a traditional Japanese crab soup
• Kare rajungan - a traditional Indonesian of a blue crab in a curry sauce. It is a delicacy from Tuban, East Java.^[8]
• Ketam Masak Lemak Cili Api campur Nenas - a traditional Malaysian crab dish which crab is cooked with green spicy chilli and coconut milk together with pineapples. The sweetness of the crab meat (normally flower crab) is intensified by adding the pineapples.
• Kani Cream Korokke - a Japanese take on the traditional French croquette; can be made with either real or imitation crab meat (although imitation crab meat versions are more commonplace).
• Njandu roast -
  Kerala style crab roast.^[9]
• Pastel de jaiba - Chilean crab (jaiba in local Spanish) pie.^[10]
• Atlantic blue crab meat, and (traditionally) crab roe, and a small amount of dry sherry.^[11][12][13]
• culinary term for crabs which have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft.^[14]
• fermented crab paste. It can be eaten as is over white rice, but can also be used as a condiment or as an ingredient in various Filipino seafood dishes.^[15][16][17]
• West Indies salad – a variation of crab meat ceviche that originated in the Mobile, Alabama area and is still a regional seafood delicacy enjoyed today.^[18][19]

• Crab dishes
• 
  Black pepper crab
• 
  A plate of Chilli crab
• 
  Crab in Padang sauce
• 
  Indian Crab masala
• 
  A crab cake served atop a bun
• 
  Crab rangoon
• 
  Inulukan

  in coconut milk and taro leaves
• 
  Kerala Chilli Crab - South Indian food preparation
• 
  Deviled crab
• 
  She-crab soup
• 
  Fried crabs
• 
  Japanese boiled crab

See also

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• Declawing of crabs
• List of seafood dishes
• List of fish dishes

References