Photo: Anna Pelzer
Deep fried soft-shell crab with aioli and a watercress salad
25 ingredients
2 hr + 10 min
Serves 4
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Soft-shell crabs are wonderful deep fried. In this recipe the fresh yeast and beer in the batter produces a light and crunchy result.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
903
Calories
41g
Protein
22g
Fat
122g
Carbs
Counts 14 of 18 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Crab | 100g cooked | 97 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Beer | 1/4 cup (60ml) for cooking | 43 |
| Wine | 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) | 25 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Lime | juice of 1 lime (44ml) | 11 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Watercress | 1 cup (34g) | 4 |
| Vinegar | 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled | 3 |
| Mustard | 1 tsp (5g) yellow | 3 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Coriander | not in our table | 0 |
| Saffron | not in our table | 0 |
| Peppermint | not in our table | 0 |
| Pea Shoots | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 15g/½oz fresh yeast
- ¼ tsp caster sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 200ml/7fl oz Belgian beer
- 1 tsp white balsamic vinegar
- 4 tbsp chopped coriander
- 1 lime
- 200g/7oz plain flour
- 8 soft-shell crabs
- salt
- 6 garlic cloves
- 250ml/9fl oz white wine
- 2 free-range egg yolks
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- , to taste salt
- 125ml/4fl oz extra virgin olive oil
- ½ tsp saffron
- 1 lemon
- 2 bunches watercress
- ½ bunch mint
- 2 handfuls pea shoots
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 red chillies
- 2 green chillies
Directions
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By bbcfood ·
Recipe sourced from
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