🥣Choose the Perfect Dipping Sauce for your Blue Crabs!

USA Blue Crabs, caught in healthy waterways boast a sweet, mildly oceanic, and buttery flavor. Three distinct types of meat pick from the blue crab. Robust jumbo pulls from the back-swimming legs, showcasing a mildness, sweetness, and delicate flavor. Flaky lump cracks from the two crab halves with smaller pristine pieces. The darker claw extracts from the two front pincers and exhibits a savory, full flavor. Three distinct blue crab meat choices in a single crab, which adds up to a fun crab feast! With such unique tastes, why include dipping sauce? Sometimes a bit of pizzaz and extra creativity adds to the feast. Some prefer hot butter, others search out more signature crab spice, but sometimes a liquid sauce adds to the greatness!

Some say they want to add a dimension to the feast. Contrasting flavors brighten the pallet and offer a variety. Crafty Crab Boom Sauce fits the bill for a worthy choice. This creamy sauce with mayonnaise, ketchup, Old Bay seasoning, Worcestershire Sauce, hot sauce, and garlic powder take the savory egg richness and umami as an ideal embellishment to the crab meat. Switching up the textures impresses the guests. Possibly, the Muddy Water Sauce with vinegar and Old Bay suits the traditionists. The smokiness of the paprika in the Old Bay and punch of celery salt headlines the peppery pop accompanied with a few drops of Tabasco. For those searching out an international flare, Ginger Sauce with a citrusy, herbaceous presence from cilantro combines with a peppery, sharp, and pungent bite from the ginger. Your sauce choice depends on your tolerance for “hotness.”

With all these choices, remember to embellish the crab meat. Don’t overtake it with exotic flavors. Others say the crab meat, sometimes needs a bit of moisture from a sauce, which prevents the meat from becoming “stringy.” Of course, you can turn up the heat with paprika, Tabasco, and red pepper additions. The key is what do you say? What’s your perfect dipping sauce for a steamed dozen?