Fried Hardcrab & Gravy

Name: Fried Hardcrab & Gravy
Total time: 10800 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 12 Steamed Hardcrab; 2 Vidalia Onions; 2 tbsp Old Bay Seasoning; 1 Salt & pepper; 1 dash cayenne pepper; 2 cup all-purpose flour; 1/2 cup vegetable oil

Rhonda Gross @cook_3675662

When I was a little girl I remember my brothers and sisters going crabbing and my mother making this dish. Without fail the neighbors would smell it and come running wanting to share it with us. My mom would make mashed potatoes and fresh vegetables as well as fresh bread for dipping in the gravy. Yum, Yum. It became one of my favorite meals. I now make it for my family and friends and I must admit it still causes the neighbors to want some.

Rhonda Gross @cook_3675662

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Ingredients

3 hours

6 servings

all Ingredients
12Steamed Hardcrab
2Vidalia Onions
2 tbspOld Bay Seasoning
1Salt & pepper
1 dashcayenne pepper
2 cupall-purpose flour
1/2 cupvegetable oil

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Steps

3 hours

1

Remove shells and claws, fins as well as deadmen.
2

Collect the mustard and set aside
3

Keep body in tact, using a crab mallet bang down the two ridges on each crab. Careful do not smash the crab!
4

Slice onions set aside
5

Heat oil in deep skillet
6

Season crabs with salt and pepper, old bay, cayenne pepper
7

Flour fronts and backs of crabs
8

Place crabs in the hot oil and brown on both sides. Remove from oil and place on paper towels to drain
9

Using the same oil left in the skillet saute the onions until opaque
10

Add to the onions the mustard from the crabs, mix together
11

Add the flour and let it brown, make a rue by adding water creating a gravy. Season to taste
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Place all of the crabs in the gravy and let simmer for one hour.
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