Sautéed Soft-Shell Crabs With Lemon-Butter Pan Sauce

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Sautéed Soft-Shell Crabs With Lemon-Butter Pan Sauce From May through September, blue crabs shed their hard shells as part of their growing process. When caught before the new shell hardens, they're the delicacy known as soft-shell crabs. There's very little of a soft-shell crab that you can't eat, though there are a few bits that should go before you fry them up (consult our guide to cleaning soft-shell crabs for more on that, or ask your fishmonger to do it for you). While there are many ways to prepare soft-shells (battered and fried are pretty killer), at home Daniel prefers to quickly sauté them in butter after lightly dredging them. The faster he can get a fresh soft-shell onto his plate, the better. As for that pan sauce, it's just browned butter, some frizzled capers, lemon juice, and parsley—a perfect topper to plump, juicy, and briny soft-shell crabs. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Tongs A good pair of silicone-topped locking tongs are perfect for transferring crabs from the frying pan to a serving platter. Shop Now   More Crab Recipes for Every Occasion Perfect Maryland Crab Cakes Crab Imperial With Buttery Golden Bread Crumbs   Thai-Style Crab Fried Rice Classic Fried Soft-Shell Crab Sandwiches With Lettuce and Tomato     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

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For Your Next Cake-Baking Adventure, Mix and Match Your Layers

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Mix-and-Match Neapolitan Cake While a certain combination of flavors may be presented as a single dessert—for example, a classic devil's food cake with chocolate buttercream, or a white cake made with toasted sugar and topped with maple frosting—using the individual components that make them up in other compositions can be a lot of fun. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Cake Pans Good cake pans are essential for making better cake. They don't have to be expensive, but they do have to be good at steadily conducting heat, large enough to contain the rising batter, and light enough to keep the crust delicate. Our favorite is 20% off today. Shop Now   Recipes to Play With For a Neapolitan Cake Double Strawberry Cake Creamy Banana Frosting Strawberry Frosting Blackberry Cake     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe