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Crab Backs

Crab Backs/krab baks/
Crab Backs
About this dish

Seasoned crab meat stuffed back into the shell, baked with breadcrumbs until golden.

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Ingredients
🦀8 crab shells with meat, cleaned
🍞1 cup breadcrumbs
🧅1 onion, finely chopped
🌶️1 scotch bonnet pepper, minced
Method
Serves 3
1
Pick the crab meat and mix with sautéed onion, garlic, and scotch bonnet pepper.
2
Season the mixture with thyme and breadcrumbs.
3
Stuff the mixture back into the cleaned crab shells.
4
Top with more breadcrumbs and a little butter.
5
Bake until golden and heated through.
✓ What Makes it Authentic

Crab backs is a popular Trinidadian appetizer, the picked crab meat seasoned and returned to the shell before baking.

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