Crab Vermouth
- 1 large (about 2 lbs.) cooked Dungeness crab, cleaned and cracked*
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch (optional)
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup dry vermouth
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
- 11/2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 11/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons dry vermouth
- Hot French bread
- 1. Melt the butter over medium heat in a wide skillet that has a lid. For a slightly thicker broth, remove the pan from the heat and blend in the cornstarch.
- 2. Add the broth, the 1/2 cup vermouth, parsley, garlic, soy sauce and lemon juice. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
- 3. Add the crab; cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
- 4. Add the 2 tablespoons vermouth and serve the crab and broth in shallow bowls with the hot French To clean a cooked Dungeness crab:
- 1. Turn the crab over and lift the little triangular part.
- 2. Pull the large top shell off of the crab.
- 3. Break the crab in two pieces down the middle.
- 4. Rinse well
- 5. It's ready to eat (for cold cracked crab) or use in a recipebread.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/crab-vermouth-53015131 (may not work)