Crab alla veneta

00552 SPIDER CRAB ALLA VENEZIANA INGREDIENTS for 4 PERSONS 4 small, spider crab (or larger), salt and pepper, lemon juice, oil, a sprig of parsley.

You can buy a head crab or two or more.

However the spider crab from portion is more suitable for its shell, once freed from all content, can be used as a serving Cup.

Wash well the granceole, then tuffatele in boiling salted water (preferably should be baked lives) and cook for 30 minutes.

Spent the time indicated, drain the crustaceans and let them cool.

Turn then every crab and extract completely the lower part of the integument thinner; then remove the coral and keep it aside.

Remove one at a time all legs.

Remove the meat from the tegument and cut it into small pieces; crumble the flesh, pulling it off from the cartilaginous parts, and put it in a bowl.

With one broken legs Nutcracker in the joints; remove the meat, put it in a mortar, setting into mush and add crumbled to the pulp in the bowl.

Transferred all the meat in the crustacean integument (which you'll well washed), pepatela (if you want a little more salt), then drizzle with lemon juice and dress with a little oil, mixing well.

Sprinkle with some chopped parsley and, if you wish, decorated with coral.

Serve.