Crab & Rice Maryland

The Chesapeake bay is the source for most of Maryland's food products. Clams, oysters and, of course, crabs are fished from its waters and prepared traditional and novelty ways.

Crab Maryland recipe

Crabs are cooked in a myriad of ways, boiled, baked or fried in bacon drippings, as in this recipe. Crab Maryland style is just crab meat with a little onion and celery sauteed in bacon drippings, tossed with crumbled bacon and rice. All I can say is "Try this!"

Ingredients

Procedure

1. Fry the bacon in a skillet over medium-high heat until crispy. Drain bacon in paper towels and keep warm.
2. Pour off half the drippings. Add onion, parsley and crab. Sauté for 2-3 minutes.
3. Add tomato juice, salt and pepper. Lower heat and simmer until tomato juice is totally absorbed.
4. Crumble the bacon. Add bacon and rice to the crab, toss lightly and serve.
   

Cooking Tips

• Get a live crab and cook it in plenty of boiling salted water or order a crab already cooked from the fish counter at the grocery store. Picke the meat, including the claws, and discard the shell.
• If you use canned crabe meat, don't forget to check for shell pieces as they get sometimes mixed with the lumps of meat.