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Basic Steamed Blue Crabs Recipe

This recipe shows how to steam blue crabs in water and vinegar with plenty of Old Bay, and has helpful instructions for picking them clean.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Basic Steamed Blue Crabs Recipe

Why it works: White wine and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,083 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Basic Steamed Blue Crabs Recipe

1 serving (8 ounces of crabmeat)
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

245Calories
20 gProtein
13 gFat
4 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blue Crab100g cooked97
Beer1/4 cup (60ml) for cooking43
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Crab + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. White wine + crabtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs