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Fast Crab

By Food & Wine Updated January 12, 2017
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2007 Hugel et Fils Cuvée Les Amours Pinot Blanc
From crab cakes to jambalaya, these luscious crab recipes come together fast.
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Crab Rolls with Lemon Aioli

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New Orleans chefs often drown seafood in rich, spicy sauces, but here, chef Jason McCullar of Cure simply dresses sweet crabmeat (a Louisiana staple) in lemon-scented aioli. The crab salad is wonderful piled on hot dog buns like a New England lobster roll or arranged delicately on small rolls as hors d'oeuvres.

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Crab Cakes with Horseradish Cream

8 Ways to Serve Crab Cakes
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Lump crabmeat is mixed with only enough bread crumbs and mayonnaise to hold it together, then coated with more crumbs and fried to a golden brown. A mixture of sour cream and horseradish provides lively accompaniment.

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Deviled Crab Omelets

Deviled Crab Omelets
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For a luxurious take on a classic filled omelet, stuff it with crab meat.

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Curry Crab Rundown

Curry Crab Rundown
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Rundown is a classic Caribbean recipe that involves cooking foods like crab, mackerel or lobster in coconut milk. (The word rundown refers to the simmering down of the coconut milk.) Bradford Thompson, who loves the whole crab he eats along Jamaica's southern coast, near the town of Black River, uses chunks of lump crabmeat in this spicy, rich coconut-curry stew. Curry, which is popular in Jamaica, was introduced there in the 17th century by East Indian slaves who were brought to the island (then an English colony) by the British.

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Crab Louie

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Evening Land president and sommelier Larry Stone is a stellar cook. One of his favorite dishes is Crab Louie.

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Cucumber-Grapefruit Crab Salad

Cucumber-Grapefruit Crab Salad
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Sandro Gamba uses nonfat yogurt in many of his sauces and salad dressings. Here he mixes it with succulent Dungeness crab, a high-protein seafood that's also high in iron and zinc.

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Crab Quesadillas with Pickled Jalapeños

Crab Quesadillas with Pickled Jalapenos
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Adding crab to quesadillas might not be traditional, but it sure is delicious.

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Spicy Tomato-and-Watermelon Gazpacho with Crab

Spicy Tomato-and-Watermelon Gazpacho with Crab
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The Lees created this gazpacho as a riff on a recipe from The Virginia Housewife, a seminal Southern cookbook first published in 1824 that is still in print. They sweeten the cold tomato soup with watermelon and make it fiery with habanero and poblano chiles.

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Crab Salad with Caesar Vinaigrette

Crab Salad with Caesar Vinaigrette
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At Custom House, the salty and piquant anchovy- and-Parmesan dressing for this salad gets pounded by hand in a mortar with a pestle, then tossed with lettuce and home-roasted pimiento peppers.

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Brioche Crab Melts

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Vitaly Paley, the chef and owner of Paley's Place, created this deliciously indulgent version of the classic tuna melt while competing in a cook-off sponsored by the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission. Pairing moist chunks of crab with brioche, truffle butter and nutty Gruyère cheese easily snagged him a first-place prize.

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Warm Piquillo and Crab Dip

Warm Piquillo and Crab Dip
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For this classic tapa, Jose Garces stuffs his delicious crab salad into individual piquillo peppers and roasts them until hot. Make it more easily by spreading the crab mixture in a baking dish, topping it with slices of the peppers, then cooking until warm and melty.

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Coconut-Crab Cocktail

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When Bobby Flay goes to San Francisco, he gorges on Dungeness crab. Here he combines morsels of sweet crab with Asian flavors—lush coconut milk, piquant lime juice and aromatic cilantro—then serves it with salty chips.

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Crab Salad with Ginger and Dried Orange Peel

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"I use this machine all the time," says Jing Tio of his L'Equip dehydrator, which looks like a supersized plastic toaster with horizontal drying trays. Tio has perfected the art of drying orange peel, grinding it to create a citrus powder with a beautifully smooth flavor—delicious with his simple crab and scallion salad. You can buy granulated orange peel at specialty food shops.

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King Crab and Avocado Shooters

King Crab and Avocado Shooters
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Zapallar, the small Chilean beach town where the Huneeus's family villa is located, has a wonderful fish market where Valeria Huneeus buys excellent fresh crab. She loves tossing it with sweet and soft avocados, a little coconut milk and fresh ginger, then serving it in a glass, shooter-style, with a thick slice of avocado on top.

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Crab and Andouille Jambalaya

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To make this jambalaya stand out, use incredible lump crabmeat, great andouille sausage and a good hit of Old Bay seasoning.

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Angel-Hair Pasta with Crab and Country Ham

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Surf and turf come together in this luxurious crab-and-ham pasta dish.

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    1 of 16 Crab Rolls with Lemon Aioli
    2 of 16 Crab Cakes with Horseradish Cream
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    4 of 16 Curry Crab Rundown
    5 of 16 Crab Louie
    6 of 16 Cucumber-Grapefruit Crab Salad
    7 of 16 Crab Quesadillas with Pickled Jalapeños
    8 of 16 Spicy Tomato-and-Watermelon Gazpacho with Crab
    9 of 16 Crab Salad with Caesar Vinaigrette
    10 of 16 Brioche Crab Melts
    11 of 16 Warm Piquillo and Crab Dip
    12 of 16 Coconut-Crab Cocktail
    13 of 16 Crab Salad with Ginger and Dried Orange Peel
    14 of 16 King Crab and Avocado Shooters
    15 of 16 Crab and Andouille Jambalaya
    16 of 16 Angel-Hair Pasta with Crab and Country Ham

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