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Beer-Poached Soft Shell Crabs

Ingredients

  • Garnish: Celery leaves
  • 250 gm - Soft shell crabs
  • 50 gm - Leeks
  • 20 gm - Lemon grass
  • 50 gm - Fennel roots
  • 330 ml - Light beer
  • 20 ml - Soya sauce
  • 100 gm - Cherry compote
  • 50 gm - Chopped onions
  • 100 gm - Asparagus
  • 20 gm - Butter
  • 1 Lime
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

  1. Clean the shells
  2. Make poaching liquor with beer, sliced leeks, sliced fennel, lemon juice and lemon grass.
  3. Poach the crabs in the liquor for five minutes on a light flame.
  4. Melt butter and saute chopped onions, add cherry compote, and finish to cook with dark soya sauce.
  5. Serve poached crabs with the cherry blaze on a bed of steamed asparagus.
 
         

 
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