soft-shell crab
Recently molted crab
A soft-shell crab is a crab caught just after molting, when its new shell is still soft and edible.
Blue crabs are most commonly harvested this way.
The entire crab—shell, legs, and all—can be fried or sautéed and eaten whole: soft-shell crab sandwich, I ordered the soft-shells.
- trapDevice for catching animals
- moltShed outer covering
- fryingCooking in shallow fat
- deep friedCooked submerged in oil
- tempuraJapanese battered fried food
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