Joy’s Maryland Style Crab Soup
As with any recipe, quality ingredients make all the difference. In this recipe I used uncured thick cut pastured bacon from a Joy Of Organics Farm. All the vegetables are 100% organic, many from on of our share packages. I used homemade beef bone broth and fresh blue crab meat.
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 15-20 | 1hour |
| Cook Time |
| 90minutes |
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Ingredients
- 8 slices thick cut baconI used pastured uncured – chopped into small pieces
- 1large onionchopped
- 4-6 carrotschopped into bite size pieces
- 1 1/2cup celerychopped from the top including leaves
- 2cups fresh green beanschopped into 1 inch pieces
- 2cups green cabbagesliced and chopped
- 2 russet potatoes scrubbed and chopped small NOTE* you can use turnips, rutabaga or eliminate for keto)
- 2cups cornAgain optional
- 328oz cans tomatoeswhole peeled Italian style
- 4 to 6cups good beef bone brothI used homemade
- 1/4 pluscups Old Bay SeasoningOf course to taste
- 1 bay leaf
- 3-4tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
- Kosher sea sat and pepper to taste
- 2lbs fresh lump blue crab meat
- 4-6 Maryland Steamed Crabsrinsed, cleaned and claws removed
- 2cloves garlicminced
Instructions
- In a large stock pot, place the chopped bacon and cook on high until just about half crispy and fat is rendered out.
- Add onions, celery, and carrots and cook until tender. Add the garlic and cook 30 seconds more until fragrant,
- add tomatoes one at a time by squeezing in your hand along with juices until all three cans are added. Stir.
- Ad 4 cups beef bone broth by adding to the empty tomato cans and pouring into the pot until cans are clean. Stir
- Add green beans, cabbage, potatoes and corn, Stir. (NOTE* add more broth if needed)
- Add bay leaf, Worcestershire Sauce, 3 tbsp. Old Bay and salt and pepper to taste.
- Cook simmering on lo to medium until veggies are tender. Continue to taste and add more Old Bay, salt and pepper until it is to your liking.
- While soup is simmering, rinse your cooked crabs, removing the salt and seasonings (If you don’t the soup w2ill be inedible. I have made that mistake). Clean the crabs and break bodies in half. set aside in a bowl with all the claws.
- Once the soup has simmered and you have adjusted your spices, drop in 2 lbs of fresh lump crab meat and stir…then add your crab pieces. Allow to cook for about 10 or 15 minutes more and serve. I always place one piece of shelled crab in every bowl.
- I bake a keto cornbread to serve with the soup. Delish
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