crab legs with garlic butter

Garlic Butter Baked Crab Legs

Serves 2.  We enjoyed these on Christmas Eve – we basted the crab legs (in the shell) with some of this butter while heating them in the oven, then used the rest of the butter as a dipping sauce once we’d worked hard to get the crab meat out. 

            2 lbs. king crab legs

            ½ c. butter

            5 garlic cloves, minced

            juice of ½ a lemon OR ½ a lime

            2 Tbs. olive oil

            sea salt, optional

            fresh or dried parsley, optional

           

Heat oven to 375 degrees.  In a small saucepan melt butter.  Add garlic and lightly sauté.  Add citrus juice and heat through.  Add in salt to taste and any parsley, then whisk in olive oil and remove from heat.

Place crab legs on baking sheet, brushing lightly with the butter sauce (save the rest for a dipping sauce).  Place pan in oven and roast about 25 minutes, or until heated through.        

Place reserved butter sauce in ramekins to serve up with the crab.