Wayne's Award Winning Maryland Crab Soup

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Show: Paula's Home CookingEpisode: Weekend House Guest

Rated: 5 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (25)

RECIPE
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Cook Time:
40 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
8 servings

Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 40 min
Total:: 50 min

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Ingredients

4 quarts water
2 tablespoons chicken bouillon granules
2 tablespoons beef bouillon granules
2 tablespoons seafood seasoning, or more to taste (recommended: Old Bay)
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons sugar
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
6 soup crabs, or 3 small live crabs, cleaned and rinsed
3 cups canned diced tomatoes
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
1 1/2 cups sliced carrots
1 1/2 cups diced celery
1 1/2 cups corn kernels, fresh or frozen
1 1/2 cups green beans, fresh or frozen
1 1/2 cups lima beans, fresh or frozen
1 cup diced cabbage
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
2 cups cubed red potato
1 pound lump crabmeat, picked free of any broken shells
1 pound claw crabmeat, picked free of any broken shells
Chopped fresh parsley leaves, for garnish

Directions

Bring the water to a boil in a stockpot, then add the chicken and beef bouillon granules, seafood seasoning, worcestershire sauce, bay leaves and sugar; stir until bouillon is dissolved. Season with salt and pepper.

Cut the whole crabs in half, add them to the pot, and bring to a second boil. Remove whole crabs after 5 to 10 minutes. Skim any excess froth created by the crab parts. Add the tomatoes and hot sauce; stir to combine. Add the carrots, celery, corn, green beans, lima beans, cabbage, and onion, bring to a low boil, and cook for 10 minutes. Add the potatoes and cook until tender. Add the crabmeat and cook for 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serve garnished with chopped parsley.

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recipe Wayne's Award Winning Maryland Crab Soup
Allana Catonsville, MD 12-13-2008
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Tastes Like Home!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Us native Marylanders are used to finding this soup at any local restaraunt; we used to get it from the grocery store's soup... pot. I'm overseas and craving it, so I had to make it! This is a great recipe, and very adaptable. I halved the recipe and it was still a lot of soup! We couldn't find lima beans so we subbed kidney beans, and subbed 3 cloves of garlic for onion. We can only get tinned crab meat and it was still yummy. Since it was tinned, we didn't do the nonsense with the shells. I'm sure it would add more flavor, but it's not worth all that hassle to me.Read more
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Brandon Columbia, MD 04-09-2008
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Little Twist
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

So I was looking for a good base Maryland crab soup recipe and this is perfect. I've recently gotten into cooking (mostly... grilling) as a hobby after graduating college and I have begun to idolize Bobby Flay. I used everything in the recipe (except whole crabs...it's winter, and out of season) but added a few things. I like a lot of spices and spicy foods, so I doubled the Old Bay and hot sauce (Tabasco), added three garlic cloves, a finely chopped habanero pepper (for heat as Bobby Flay says), and 2 tablespoons of Wild Turkey bourbon (personal touch I add to most foods). I took it to work at Johns Hopkins for soup day and everyone loved it. It is great, but be warned, it is very spicy if you don't like spicy foods.Read more
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TONY Vineland, NJ 03-08-2008
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Great Soup!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Easy to make and a real crowd pleaser!
recipe Wayne's Award Winning Maryland Crab Soup
Dick Oxford, PA 10-30-2007
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some changes
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

Did not use so many veges as they took away from the crab taste. Added okra, corn, celery, and carrots. Otherise followed the... recipe and the soup was about as good as it gets. Finally found a healthy crab soup.Read more
recipe Wayne's Award Winning Maryland Crab Soup
MIKE martinsburg, WV 07-30-2007
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Award Winning is Right!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I lived in or near Maryland almost my entire life. This is real Maryland crab soup...no messing around. It's the real deal... give it a try.Read more
recipe Wayne's Award Winning Maryland Crab Soup
Anonymous 07-15-2007
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Hmmmmm
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

Being from Maryland this soup has way too many vegetables ---- cut down on the portions and when soup is completed you won't... need more liquid...otherwise soup is very tasty....DRead more