Alaska King Crab Cocktail

Alaska King Crab Cocktail.

I love King Crab because it is so crab chunky delicious. When you get a nice leg portion the centre cut makes for a great cold cocktail presentation. When the season here on the BC coast arrives you can purchase king crab at the local grocery stores. I find about 2 center legs yield about 60 percent meat. So pick your crab for meat density. Avoid frost bitten ends and the claws and joints weigh the most, but the edible crab meat yield is low. Not hard to spend 50 bucks on 2 nice legs.

Ask to see the catch info to make sure your getting Alaska King and not Red or Spider crab which can be pawned off by the server as the more expensive stuff.

One does not have to much after steaming the crab legs and removing the meat and all the cartilage pen bones.

Simple drawn butter or a simple chili catsup cocktail red dip served with a small dish of bite-size king crab.

Making a nice presentation seafood cocktail using a bib lettuce cup with king crab, spot prawns and a small topping of chopped green chives, cilantro, purple onion banana pepper and cherry tomato. All you need is a wedge of lemon or lime.

Nice party lettuce wrap.