Best 20 Easy Crab Recipes

EASY CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine 1/3 cup bread crumbs, green onions, red pepper, egg, mayonnaise, lemon juice, garlic powder and cayenne; fold in crab., Place remaining bread crumbs in a shallow bowl. Divide mixture into eight portions; shape into 2-in. balls. Gently coat in bread crumbs and shape into 1/2-in.-thick patties., In a large nonstick skillet, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add crab cakes; cook until golden brown, 3-4 minutes on each side.

EASY CORN AND CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• Wrap potato cubes in plastic wrap, and microwave for 30 seconds. Set aside.
• In a saute pan, cook bacon over medium heat until heated through, and add chopped onions. Cook and stir until onions are clear. Stir in crab meat and parsley flakes. Set aside.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a large stock pot over low heat. Whisk in flour until mixture becomes creamy and takes on a eggshell color. Continue to cook for a few more minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in wine. Dissolve chicken bouillon in milk; when the flour mixture is crumbly, slowly whisk in the milk. Mix well in order to eliminate all lumps.
• When the mixture is creamy and hot, stir in bacon mixture, cubed potatoes, and creamed corn. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and simmer for 10 minutes.
• For a creamy curry variation add 2 tablespoons curry powder after adding the wine to the flour mixture, and substitute cooked, cubed chicken for the bacon.

EASY CRAB CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook pasta until al dente. Drain, and transfer to a large bowl.
• Add mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, and onion to the noodles; mix well. Stir in green pepper, crab, shrimp and celery. Salt and pepper to taste. Spoon mixture into an 8x8 inch casserole dish. Sprinkle bread crumbs to taste over the casserole.
• Bake 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until brown and bubbly.

DECADENT AND EASY CRAB BISQUE

Steps:

• Saute onion in the butter, over medium heat, until translucent.
• Add 2 T. of the flour to the onions, mixing well with a wooden spoon. Cook for about a minute.
• Add 3 cups of the half-and-half, heavy cream, salt and pepper. Whisk while bringing up to a boil (you can turn up the heat a bit here - just be careful not to scald the cream).
• Shake 2 T. of the flour and 1 cup of the half-and-half - using a jar with a lid. Shake until the flour is blended well.
• Add to the soup by whisking. Keep whisking until the soup thickens.
• Stir in the crab and cook for about 5 more minutes.
• Ladle the soup into the bowls and garnish with snipped chives, if desired.

EASY CREAMY CRAB AND ASPARAGUS SOUP

Steps:

• Cook and stir the bacon and onion in a saucepan over medium-high heat until the onion is translucent, 7 to 10 minutes.
• Stir the garlic and yellow bell pepper into the bacon mixture; cook and stir together another 2 minutes.
• Mix the diced potato, asparagus, crabmeat, skim milk, half-and-half, salt, and black pepper into the bacon mixture; bring to a simmer, reduce heat to medium, and cook until the potatoes are tender, 20 to 30 minutes.

EASY CRAB PUFFS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine water and butter in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and add flour; stir to form a ball. Remove from the heat and add eggs all at once; stir until smooth.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a cookie sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until puffs are a nice golden brown and hollow sounding, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.
• Meanwhile, mix cream cheese, sour cream, celery, onion, garlic powder, and soy sauce until smooth. Mix in crab.
• Fill cooled puff pastries with crab mixture.

EASY CRAB DIP

Steps:

• In a medium size mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, onion, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, crab meat and hot sauce. Mix well. Spread the mixture into an 8 inch glass pie pan. Cover the cream cheese mixture with cocktail sauce. Refrigerate until you are ready to serve.

EASY CRAB PASTA SALAD

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil; cook the rotini at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes; drain and rinse under cold water.
• Combine peas, water chestnuts, imitation crabmeat, mayonnaise, chives, and dill in a large bowl; stir until evenly mixed. Add cooled pasta and mix until coated.

QUICK N' EASY SHRIMP AND CORN BISQUE WITH OPTIONAL CRAB

Steps:

• Peel and devein shrimp. Place the peelings and heads if you have them, in a stock pot with 4 cups of water to boil and reduce making a stock. In a separate pot saute the fresh seasonings (onions, garlic, red peppers, green onions. When these are soft, add the bag of simply potatoes and 1-2 t crab boil and mash. Saute for apx 10 min til soft. Add Cans of Corn and Cream Corn and saute for apx 5 min until incorporated. Add cans of cream of shrimp soup and incorporate. Next, i may use the hand blender to blend all of the above items. Next add shrimp stock until the consistency of soup and bring to a boil. Add the shrimp and simmer for 5-10 min then add heavy cream. After all ingredients are fully mixed and shrimp are pink add the lump crab meat and season with tonys if necessary until heated and serve with some slivers of green onions on top. ENJOY.

EASY CRAB PASTA SALAD

Steps:

• Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and rinse in cold water. In a bowl, combine the pasta, crab, broccoli, tomato, green pepper and green onion. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, salad dressing and Parmesan cheese. Pour over salad mixture; toss gently to coat.

EASY CRAB LINGUINE

Steps:

• Cook the pasta in boiling salted water until al dente.
• Meanwhile, melt butter or margarine in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic, and cook till transparent.
• Mix flour into butter or margarine mixture to make a paste. Add warmed milk, and stir until well mixed. Heat gently, and when milk is quite hot add the parmesan. Stir until cheese is melted and sauce is thick. Don't boil. Stir in the crab, heat through.
• Drain pasta. Serve sauce over hot noodles.

SUPER EASY LAYERED CRAB DIP

Steps:

• Mix softened cream cheese with Worcestershire Sauce & mayonnaise (or Miracle Whip) until smooth. Feel free to add more or less Worcestershire sauce for your personal taste.
• Spread the mixture on a plate, I usually use a plate the size of a dinner dish.
• Gently spread the chili sauce over the top of the cream cheese mixture. (Like spreading pizza sauce over the crust).
• Sprinkle the well drained crab meat over the top of chili sauce.
• Finally, sprinkle the parsley over the top.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Serve with crackers.

EASY SHRIMP & CRAB PASTA

Steps:

• Saute onion and garlic in butter until onion is nearly translucent.
• Add oregano, basil, red pepper flakes and salt/pepper.
• Add half and half, bring to boil.
• Mix corn starch with enouch water to dilute it, and pour into boiling sauce until you get desired consistency.
• Stir in crab and shrimp, cook another minute and take off of heat.
• Spoon over angel hair pasta and enjoy!

EASY MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Mix crab, crushed crackers, egg, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, seafood seasoning, mustard, lemon zest, and pepper in a large bowl until well combined. Shape into 6 cakes and place in the refrigerator until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Pour 1/8 inch vegetable oil into a large iron skillet or frying pan. Heat over medium-high heat.
• Remove cakes from the refrigerator and fry in the hot oil until golden brown, 4 to 5 minutes per side.

EASY & DELICIOUS CRAB STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Wash and take the stems out of the mushrooms,set aside.
• Combine green onions,garlic,margarine,cream cheese, and seasoning in a bowl and microwave on high for 1 min, stir, microwave again for 1 minute.
• Stir and add crab, mushrooms and parmesan.
• At this point, the mixture should be fairly thick,(and not too buttery, you'll be able to tell if you see it on the edges of the bowl -- if you see 'too much' add some bread crumbs for a better outcome) You want a thick porridge like consistency at this point.
• You could now store this mixture or if you had stuffed the mushrooms -- they can be refrigerated and heated and served the next day.
• Stuff mushroom caps and top with additional sprinkle of bread crumbs and/or cheese, if desired.
• Heat at 375 for 10-20 mins, or until bubbling hot.
• Let rest for about 5-10 mins coz the fillings are gonna be HOT!
• The reason this recipe is so easy is because steps can be done ahead of time and it's still turns out delicious every single time we do this. Oh -- and it's SOOOO versatile -- got one ingredient but not other? -- change it -- it's still great :).

EASY CRAB TOSTADAS

Steps:

• chop up crab or pull apart with your hands put all ingredients together in a bowel and drench with lemon and salt. Put sour cream on tostada top with crab mixture and top with slices of avocado and any kind of hot sauce if you want.

IMPOSSIBLY EASY MINI CRAB CAKE PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 12 regular-size muffin cups with cooking spray.
• In small bowl, mix crabmeat and 1/2 teaspoon seafood seasoning; set aside. In 10-inch skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat until hot. Cook onion and bell peppers in oil 4 minutes, stirring frequently. Add crabmeat mixture, stirring until mixture is heated through. Cool 5 minutes; stir in cheese.
• In medium bowl, stir baking mixture ingredients with whisk or fork until blended. Spoon 1 scant tablespoon baking mixture into each muffin cup. Top with about 1/4 cup crab mixture. Spoon 1 tablespoon baking mixture onto crab mixture in each muffin cup.
• Bake about 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and tops are golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. With thin knife, loosen sides of pies from pan; remove from pan and place top sides up on cooling rack. Cool 10 minutes longer.
• While crab cake pies are cooling, in medium bowl, mix aioli ingredients. Serve each mini pie topped with generous tablespoonful of aioli.

QUICK AND EASY CRAB RANGOON DIP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a large baking sheet.
• In a medium bowl, mix cream cheese, soy sauce, fresh ginger root, garlic, parsley and crabmeat.
• Cut wonton wrappers diagonally into triangles. Arrange triangles on the prepared baking sheet in a single layer. Sprinkle with paprika, increasing the amount as desired.
• Bake wrappers in the preheated oven until crisp and lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
• Pour approximately 1/2 the duck sauce over cream cheese mixture. Serve the rest with the toasted won ton wrapper triangles for dipping.

EASY CRAB PUFFS

Steps:

• combine cheese, crab meat (drained),garlic salt, mayonnaise, and butter/margerine.
• you may need to beat it with an electric mixer to make it semi-smooth.
• spread evenly between the english muffins halves.
• cut each half of english muffin into quarters.
• place the quarters on a baking sheet.
• bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until slightly brown.

QUICK & EASY CRAB ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Sauté mushrooms in oil.
• Turn heat to low.
• Add green onions, 1/4 cup of the salsa, cream cheese, cumin oregano and crab.
• Stir until cream cheese is melted, then add half the jack cheese.
• Roll up in tortillas and place in a greased 7 x 11 glass baking dish.
• Spoon remaining salsa on top, then sprinkle on remaining cheese.
• Bake uncovered for 15 minutes.