Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, devil crabs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Devil crabs is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Devil crabs is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Deviled crab (croqueta de jaiba in Spanish) is a crab meat croquette. Deviled crab croquettes originated in Tampa, Florida, where they were developed in the Spanish, Cuban and Italian immigrant community of Ybor City. They closed the restaurant a few years back, and the building is gone.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook devil crabs using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Devil crabs:
- Prepare croquette dough——–
- Prepare 3 loaves stale white bread
- Take 1 loaf stale Cuban bread (grind very fine and sift)
- Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Make ready crab filling————–
- Take 5 tbsp oil
- Take 3 medium onions finely chopped
- Get 1/2 red or green bell pepper finely chopped
- Make ready 4 clove garlic mashed
- Get 1 tsp crushed red pepper Italian style
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Get 1/2 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Take 6 oz tomato paste
- Make ready 1 lb crab meat shredded
- Prepare 2 tsp salt divided
- Prepare 1 cup cracker meal
- Get 1/2 cup flour
- Make ready 1 oil to fry with
- Take ground black pepper
- Make ready egg wash———-
- Get 1/2 cup milk
- Take ground black pepper
- Prepare salt
- Prepare 2 eggs well beating
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Instructions to make Devil crabs:
- Croquette: remove crust from stale white bread you wont need the crust. soak remainder of white bread In water for 15 minutes.
- Drain squeeze the white bread until almost dry, add the Cuban bread till you have dough.
- Add paprika and salt mix well form ball and refrigerate for 2 hours
- Fry onions, bell pepper, garlic, and crushed red pepper in oil for 15 minutes. add bay leaves, sugar, salt and tomato paste. add crab cook 10 minutes. put on plate and refrigerate for two hours.
- Press about 3 tablespoons of dough into your hand put 1 tablespoon of crab filling in middle then seal it making pointed end it will look like a mini American football.
- For egg wash mix eggs milk, salt, pepper and put in bowl
- Mix cracker and flour
- Roll croquette in cracker mix dip into egg wash and back into cracker mix put into refrigerator for 2 hours and fry in oil until brown
- Recipe from Tampa Tribune of the Columbia Restaurant recipe
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