Ingredients

  • 12 lb crab, meat*
  • 2 cups water, boiling
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup rice, uncooked
  • 2 onions, peeled and chopped
  • 2 small carrots, peeled and chopped
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 2 whole cloves
  • 8 drops Tabasco sauce
  • salt and pepper, to taste

Method

  • Add rice to boiling water along with any juice from the crab meat; cover and cook for 15 minutes or until done.
  • Cook chopped onion, carrots, bay leaves and cloves in butter until slightly golden; add crab meat.
  • Season with Tabasco, salt and pepper; add rice and cook together for three minutes.
  • Serve hot.
  • *If you have access to fresh crabs, this recipe will take approximately 15 small ones.
  • Wash well and cook for 20 minutes, or until done.
  • Use crab liquor with water to make the two cups of liquid when cooking rice.
  • Pick meat from shell and follow recipe.