Soft Shell Crab Sandwich

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 servings
  • Total: 16 min
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Cook: 6 min
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Ingredients

Vegetable oil, for frying

3 large eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup beer

2 cups all-purpose flour

4 soft shell crabs, cleaned

4 sandwich buns, toasted

Tartar Sauce, for serving, recipe follows

Sliced tomato, for serving

Lettuce leaves, for serving

Tartar Sauce:

8 ounces mayonnaise

2 tablespoons horseradish, drained

1 cup sweet pickles, chopped

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

3/4 cup lemon juice

Directions

  1. Heat about 3 inches of oil in a saucepan to about 400 degrees F.
  2. In a medium bowl, mix eggs, milk and beer until creamy. Put flour in a separate bowl. Dip soft shell crabs into wet batter and then dip into flour. Drop battered crab into hot oil. Fry crab for 3 minutes on each side or until golden. Serve on buns, with tartar sauce, tomato and lettuce.

Tartar Sauce:

  1. Mix mayonnaise, horseradish, pickles, salt and pepper together in a small bowl. Add lemon juice. Refrigerate until ready to use.
  2. Yield: about 3 cups

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Heather S.

My husband cooked this for dinner. We live in Ohio and only get soft shell crab on occasion when it is in season. The liquid is to much and can be cut in half. So half the beer, half the milk and only 1 or 2 eggs. Use a beer you like to drink and then you'll know that you will like it in your dish. We used Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster. It is a India Pale Ale and worked out well. The oil make sure you have a theremometer that goes to 400 degrees and even then you may need to turn it down to a lower level temp. Becareful not to over fry. We used our own tartar sauce that was store bought it worked out very well. This is an interesting dish if you can find affordable softshell crab in your area. Good Luck!

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