Learn boil crab legs and shrimp for your next dinner party.
Shrimp and snow crab are two of the most popular crustaceans eaten in the United States. While snow crabs enjoy eating shrimp, people enjoy eating both, and boiling them for a seafood dinner is a great way to prepare them. Shrimp and snow crab legs are easy to cook and provide a delicious, nutritious meal; each three-ounce serving of snow crab legs, for example, only has 80 to 90 calories. A four-ounce serving of boiled shrimp only has 112 calories. Both crustaceans are high in protein and low in fat. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Instructions
1. Understand that snow crab is cooked immediately after unloading from the fishing boats that catch it; afterward, it is quickly frozen so what you buy and prepare actually already is cooked, meaning all you have to do is reheat the crab legs.
2. Bring two large stockpots to strong, rolling boils on the stovetop. Add three tablespoons of salt to each pot. Drop 1 pound of snow crab legs into one stock pot and 1 pound of peeled, deveined shrimp into the other. Cover the pots and let the seafood simmer.
3. Boil frozen snow crab legs for 8 to 9 minutes; boil thawed snow crab legs for 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the snow crab legs from the pot with a pair of tongs and let them drain for 1 minute on a cutting board. Boil jumbo shrimp for 7 to 8 minutes; boil large shrimp for 5 to 7 minutes and boil medium shrimp for 3 to 4 minutes.
4. Remove shrimp from boiling water with tongs and drain them in a colander. Serve immediately. Alternatively, if you are not going to serve shrimp hot or right away, plunge them in a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking process and protect them from becoming tough. Drain shrimp and place in a covered container in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve them.
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