Best Crab Recipes
Crab lovers, this one’s for you! I’ve pulled together my Best Crab Recipes, from restaurant-style crab cakes to crunchy air fryer crab rangoon and everyone’s favorite crab dip. These dishes are easy, flavorful, and perfect for parties, weeknights, or whenever a seafood craving hits.
Growing up in Maryland, I practically lived on crab, whether it was cracking open fresh crabs or enjoying a perfectly seasoned crab cake, it was always a highlight of the table.
This collection brings together all my favorite crab recipes, from quick appetizers to crowd-pleasing classics and party-ready bites. These are the dishes I return to again and again because they’re flavorful, reliable, and always a hit.
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1. Air Fryer Crab Rangoons
Crispy Air Fryer Crab Rangoons aka wontons made with cream cheese and crab, are crispy and delicious. They’re so easy to make at home you’ll never order takeout again!
2. Crab Stuffed Shrimp
Seafood lovers will adore this Crab Stuffed Shrimp recipe, which features flavorful crab meat and juicy shrimp! It’s the best of both worlds and great as anappetizer or elegant main course, this is an easy recipe that can be prepared ahead of time for convenient cooking.
3. Maryland Crab Cakes
A Maryland Crab Cake Recipe made with jumbo lump blue crab meat, Old Bay seasoning, and a secret ingredient! They are a true Maryland staple.
4. Crab Cake Sauce
This tangy Crab Cake Sauce is the perfect 5-minute dipping sauce for a variety of seafood dishes like po’boys, this Easy Blackened Shrimp Recipe and, of course, these Maryland Crab Cakes.
5. Maryland Crab Dip
This Maryland Crab Dip is a staple in Maryland that’s made at every holiday and get- together! It’s unbelievably easy, impossible to mess up, and will leave a lasting impression. It features jumbo lump crab meat, cheesy, and full of Maryland’s most well-known flavor: Old Bay Seasoning.
6. Remoulade for Crab Cakes
Delicious Remoulade For Crab Cakes takes seafood the next level. It’s a delicious mayonnaise based recipe from Louisiana, kicked up with horseradish.
7. Crab Puffs
These Crab Puffs bring major wow-factor with minimal effort. Flaky puff pastry pairs perfectly with a creamy, savory crab filling seasoned just right. Finished with fresh chives, they’re pretty on the plate, quick to make, and completely addicting.
8. Crab Fries
These Crab Fries are just what they sound like: crispy french fries loaded with the tender crab meat and melty cheese of my Maryland Crab Dip! Yum. You can easily make this dish in 20 minutes using frozen waffle fries for a super convenient but restaurant-quality appetizer.
9. Maryland Crab Pretzels
Crab Pretzels that are truly next level! Homemade soft pretzels are topped with the best homemade jumbo lump crab dip. This simple but decadent Crab Pretzel Recipe really showcases what Maryland crab recipes are all about. The rich and bold flavors of this crab dip pretzel will have you wanting to take a trip to the coast.
If you try any of these crab recipes, please let me know how you liked them by leaving a comment on the recipe!
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