Spicy Maryland Crab Soup
 
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Made with summer's best available ingredients, this Spicy Maryland Crab Soup sings of home. Comforting, yet spicy! You could almost justify this as a vegetable soup, but don't tell the kids. You can substitute frozen vegetables, if needed.
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Recipe type: Soup
Cuisine: Seafood
Serves: 8 servings
Ingredients
  • Saute
  • 2 T. olive oil
  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 small red onion, diced~about ¾ c.
  • ½ c. celery, thinly sliced and diced
  • 1 c. carrots or matchstick carrots, diced
  • Broth
  • 4 c. beef broth (I made it with Better than Bouillon beef base.)
  • 4 c. clam juice ( I made it with Better than Bouillon clam base.)
  • Vegetables
  • 28 oz. diced tomatoes
  • fresh corn kernels from 3 ears of fresh sweet corn
  • 2 c. fresh green beans, trimmed and cut into 1" segments
  • 1 c. baby lima beans
  • 2 stalks of celery, thinly sliced
  • 1 large russet potato, peeled, diced into small cubes
  • Crabby Additions:
  • 1 pound lump crab meat (Check for shells!)
  • 2 T. (or more~ How brave are you?) Old Bay seasoning
  • ½ t. Kosher salt
  • ½ t. freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
  1. Add olive oil and swirl to cover bottom of a Dutch Oven. Sauté onion, celery, garlic and carrot for about 2 minutes, until vegetables are translucent and tender.
  2. Add in the stocks and bring to a boil.
  3. Add the remaining (fresh) vegetables to the broth and simmer covered, for about 30 minutes.
  4. Gently stir in Old Bay and crab meat.
  5. Continue to simmer for about another 30 minutes.
  6. Adjust seasonings, (Old Bay, salt, pepper) to your desired taste.
Recipe by My Dragonfly Cafe at https://mydragonflycafe.com/spicy-maryland-crab-soup/