Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, devil crabs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Devil crabs is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Devil crabs is something that I have loved my whole life.
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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Get croquette dough——–
- Take 3 loaves stale white bread
- Take 1 loaf stale Cuban bread (grind very fine and sift)
- Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take crab filling————–
- Make ready 5 tbsp oil
- Prepare 3 medium onions finely chopped
- Prepare 1/2 red or green bell pepper finely chopped
- Make ready 4 clove garlic mashed
- Take 1 tsp crushed red pepper Italian style
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 1/2 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Take 6 oz tomato paste
- Make ready 1 lb crab meat shredded
- Take 2 tsp salt divided
- Prepare 1 cup cracker meal
- Get 1/2 cup flour
- Get 1 oil to fry with
- Take ground black pepper
- Make ready egg wash———-
- Get 1/2 cup milk
- Take ground black pepper
- Get salt
- Take 2 eggs well beating
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Steps 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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