Best Healthy Can Crab Meat Recipes You’ll Love

Adding canned crab meat to recipes **truly elevates the flavor**.

It can transform a bland zero-carb diet into a tasty meal with little effort, especially if you are a big fitness freak or on a ketogenic diet.

It spares you the long preparation hours, as it’s ready for consumption right from the can.

All you need to do is mash It with your favorite ingredients.

The Crab Dip and Seafood Stuffed Mushrooms recipes are some of the easiest crab meat mushrooms you can follow.

With these recipes, you can prepare a tasty can crab meal that’s delicious and highly nutritious.

They require easily accessible ingredients and take unbelievably little preparation time.

Can crab meat is a mixture of body and lump meat prepared through steaming live crab.

You can use it for various dishes, and works extremely well when stuffing vegetables with seafood or preparing crab cakes.

The Crab Dip Recipe

Enjoy the deep flavor of your can crab meat with this recipe.

Ingredients

• A finely chopped small onion
• Eight ounces of softened cream cheese
• A lemon
• cayenne 
• Two flaked and drained cans of crab meat (6 ounces each)
• One pound of crusty Italian bread (loaf round)
• Eight tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise
• 1/8 spoonful of garlic powder
• Pepper and salt

Preparation

• Heat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius
• Squirt some lemon juice on the crab
• Mix the crabmeat, cream cheese, mayonnaise, garlic powder, and pepper slot in a medium-sized bowl, and spread the dip evenly in a baking bowl (preferably one quart)
• Bake the mix for 20 minutes in the oven
• While baking, slash out a circle at the top of the mixture to make a bread bowl and spoon it out. Slice the removed bread into small pieces, which you’ll later dip.
• Remove the mixture from the oven and stir it thoroughly. Use a spoon to add the mixture to the chopped off the bread. Put the mixture on a baking sheet and back into the oven for ten more minutes.
• Serve it while it is still hot.

Seafood Stuffed Mushrooms

Try out this definite hit recipe, especially if you’re a big mushroom lover.

You’ll love how the mashup melts in your mouth with a crispy flavor.

Ingredients

• An egg yolk
• Ten white mushrooms (with stems removed)
• A teaspoon of garlic powder
• A tablespoon of Italian bread crumbs
• A tablespoon of lemon juice
• A package of softened cheese cream (8 ounces)
• 4 ounces of drained can shrimp
•  6 ounces of drained can crab
• A chopped green onion
• A cup of Italian bread crumbs
• A teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce

Preparation

• Heat the oven to 200 degrees C and spread aluminum foil over the baking sheet.
• Put the garlic powder, Worcestershire sauce, one tablespoon of bread crumbs, cheese cream, lemon juice, egg yolk, pepper, and salt into a mixer bowl. Mix till it blends smoothly and evenly.
• Put the shrimp and the and the crap in the mixture
• Coat the mushroom with the mixture, compress it into the cup of bread crumbs to stuff fully, and put it on the baking sheet once it’s coated.
• Bake it in the oven for 12 to 14 minutes, till the mushrooms get slightly soft. Let the mushrooms broil in the oven (set the oven to broil) till the upper part turns golden.

You can serve the stuffed mushrooms with a vegetable side dish or as appetizers.

Which are the health benefits of can crab meat?

Crab meat has a ton of essential minerals and vitamins.

It has minimal calories and fewer fats, making it a perfect food for even people with dietary restrictions.

In addition, canned crab meat is a huge source of highly essential proteins in muscle growth and development.

Also, most canned crab meats are zero-carb, therefore excellent preferences for people trying to keep off unhealthy fats and a high-carbohydrate diet.

Canned crab meat from the store is often gluten-free; thus a good choice for people with celiac disease and allows them to diversify their diet to keep off the monotony of diet restrictions.

How do you improve the taste of canned crab meat?

Canned crab meat may have a seafood smell, giving your meal a fishy aroma.

Follow these steps to get rid of the fish smell:

• Half-fill a mixing bowl with ice and place a colander in the center.
• Pour cold milk to around three inches in the colander, and lower the crab meat from the can into the colander. You can cover the meat with more cold milk if necessary.
• Leave the meat to soak in the iced milk for about an hour, remove the colander from the bowl, and move it to a sink. Take the meat from the colander and rinse it with cold running water for a minute.
• Drain the crab meat and put it in an empty bowl. Squeeze one tablespoon of fresh citrus juice into the bowl and soak the crab meat evenly with the juice.

If the smell hasn’t reduced to your liking, continue adding citrus juice, one teaspoon at a time, till the odor is gone.

You can also add a teaspoon of fine leafy herbs to eliminate the aroma entirely.

Which can crab meat should you buy?

When shopping for can crab meat, focus on the pack’s protein, fat, and mineral content.

The fat content should be low, preferably 0.3 g per 100 grams, with high protein, around 24g per 100g.

These quantities vary with brands; you can always check the container for nutrient percentages.

Irrespective of the type you go for, the pieces should not be soft or mushy.

They should taste as good as fresh crab meat when cooked, with no excess fish smell.

It is also crucial to check the ivory color of the meat.

The crab meat in the can should not be pure white as it is a sign of the use of bleaching chemicals to improve appearance.

The ivory color is one of the critical aspects of top-quality crab meat.

Also, the meat should not be highly mixed with shells.

Types of can crab meat

• Claw meat: This meat is obtained from the crab’s claws and often has a deep crap flavor. It is, however, less sweet compared to other crab meat.
• Jumbo lump: This meat is from a crab’s muscles that connect its swinging legs to its back. Multiple crabs are required to fill a packet of the jumbo lump as each has only two of these muscles. For this reason, canned jumbo lump crab meat is relatively expensive compared to the others.
• Leg meat: This is meat from the crab’s legs.
• White meat: White meat is often a mixture of claw crab meat and jumbo meat. It is usually flaked crab meat. 

Conclusion 

Diversify your meals with this nutritious seafood.

The best part is you’re not limited by fishing seasons or having to move for miles looking for crab meat on the lakesides.

You can easily access it from the store and have it in your pantry for a quick lunch or dinner.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How long does open can crab meat last?

Open can crab meat can last for 3 to 4 days.

After opening the can, you can refrigerate the meat in open plastic or glass to maximize its shelf life.

If you’ve not opened the can yet, the meat can go in the fridge for 6 to 12 months if you keep it at 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Which is the best crab meat in a can?

Chicken of the Sea Lump Crab and Bumble Bee Crab Meat are the best can crab meat options in the market.

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