Ocean City Maryland Crab Soup
From crabhappychick 14 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 20
This is REAL Maryland crab soup! Back in the days when you could drop a crab line in the Assawoman Bay at Ocean City, MD and fill up a bushel of crabs in no time, this was a summer time staple at the beach. Walt & Peg and the group would go crabbing the first day. Read more ....we'd feast on them that night, and have crab soup the next day or so. Crab cakes, too, after the women picked the crabs. The BEST! See less
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds chuck roast, fat removed shopping list
- 3 onions, chopped shopping list
- 4 carrots, chopped shopping list
- 4 celery ribs, with leaves, sliced thinly shopping list
- water shopping list
- 1 can tomatoes, diced, LARGE can shopping list
- 1 can tomato juice, LARGE can shopping list
- 4 potatoes, diced shopping list
- 6 crabs, baked, LIVE - SEE NOTE shopping list
- 1 pound crab claw meat shopping list
- 1 pound frozen mixed vegetables shopping list
- Old Bay seafood seasoning (the more, the better!) shopping list
- salt and pepper, to taste shopping list
- garlic salt, to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Add the chuck roast, onions, carrots, and celery to a large soup pot or crabpot, cover with water & cook until meat is tender. Remove meat, cut into pieces. Return beef to stock in pot
- Add tomatoes, tomato juice, potatoes, claw meat, cleaned crabs, mixed veggies, and seasonings. Add more water, if necessary to almost cover the solids. Bring to boil, add cleaned crabs and the remaining ingredients; cover and simmer until done. Adjust seasoning and ladle soup into bowls, placing a half crab on top of each.
- NOTE: Put six LIVE crabs into the freezer. When they are frozen and immobile, take out and clean each crab by removing top shell (make SURE they're frozen or you might have one ticked off crab and a serious potential for bodily hard - to you) and cleaning out the gills and the devil (crab term) - be sure to leave legs and claws attached; snap cleaned crab in half along the natural center of the body and toss into boiling stock in pot.
- NOTE 2: If you have some leftover crabs, you can clean them and add to the soup about 1/2 hour before soup is done.
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
Fantastic! I love crab soup.It has been a while since I have had it.
bluewaterandsand
in GAFFNEY loved it
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Wow.. I want to go crabbin... I did not know that beef was in it..! Gonna try soon.
linebb956
in La Feria loved it
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Oh, how rich and intense, just like I remember. I can remember sitting at the newspaper lined table with buckets of crabs with my Aunt and Uncle. I thought the crab was too much work and often opted for a big bowl of the soup. Crab love in a bowl.
notyourmomma
in South St. Petersburg loved it
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