Tuff Town Eats

Next to cheese and noodles, I think my bronze medal winner for the tastebud marathon would be crab.  We were in Tofino last week surf n' turfin', and decided to go down to the docks and pick up 6 feisty crustaceans.  Instead of the same old boring steamer with a side of melted butter, I thought we'd kick it up a knotch (NOT like Emeril circa 2006) and fry the bad boys with garlic and chilis. We called it ... FIRE CRAB!

Ingredients

Crabbies (1 per person is usually a good amount of legs, we used fresh dungenous)

Egg wash mixture:

Garlic

Red or green chilis

eggs

Flour mixture:

rice flour

sugar

salt

pepper

Directions

1. After scrubbing the crab legs thoroughly coat them in the egg wash mixture and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. Prepare a large, deep frying pan with vegetable oil coating the bottom of the pan.
3. Toss the legs in the flour mixture and fry them on medium-high heat for 3 minutes per side or until the flour coating turns a golden brown and the shells are pink.  You may have to add more oil to the pan as you go.  Voila, Fire Crab!

My sous chef and partner in crime, Adam and his crab face.

Before

After

On our way home we stopped at the infamous Tacofino truck for lunch.  Since Tofino was the birthplace of this legendary street meat machine, we ordered their tuna and fish tacos as well as a pork and chicken burrito.  All delicious and also available in 3 locations in Vancouver now due to their success. http://tacofino.com/