Marino's Crab Jus
- 13 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup finely chopped garlic
- 1 cup finely chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped cherry peppers or long hot peppers (or 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper)
- 4 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- Six-pack of dull beer (Old Milwaukee or Bud will do fine)
- 1/4 pound butter
- 12-18 hard-shell blue crabs, cooked, dressed, broken in half (save cooking water to use to cook linguine)
- In a deep saucepan heat the oil and cook the garlic till soft but not browned.
- Stir.
- Add the parsley and cook for a few minutes.
- Stir in the chopped peppers, salt and pepper.
- In a separate pan, boil the beer.
- The beer will foam, and when the foam dies down, continue to boil for 1 more minute.
- Add the beer and butter to the garlic mixture and mix well.
- Arrange the crabs in layers in their cooking pot and cover with the beer mixture.
- Shake the pan to get the liquid into the crabs.
- Bring to a boil, quickly lower the heat and simmer the crabs for 7 minutes, shaking the pan to jolt the juice out of the crabs.
- Do not overcook or the meat will get mushy.
- Remove the crabs.
- Serve with linguine below.
olive oil, garlic, parsley, cherry peppers, salt, pepper, dull, butter, crabs
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/8102 (may not work)