How to Make Tomato Dipping Sauce for King Crab

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you my favorite way to cook king crab legs. So for our first sauce, we'll take a bowl, take our tomatoes and put them in the bowl. In there. And you can use your hand here; you can use a spatula, whatever. I just tend to use my knife, because I find it easiest. So we're going to take all of our tomatoes, and try to pick up some of that juice too, like I just did like that. We're going to take our tomatoes, and we're going to take that celery and onion mix we had earlier, dump that in here. Just a little bit of salt, a little bit of pepper, and here's the crazy part, our ketchup. And my spatula probably isn't going to fit in here, is it? If I do circular, sweeping motions I can probably get it all out. If all else fails, you've always got a finger, which would be very helpful at that point. We're just going to take this and just mix this all together. Now some people will tell you to puree it. I'm not. This is, essentially what you're making is almost like a cocktail sauce, except for you're omitting the horseradish. I think horseradish is just overpowering on crab. On oysters, or something like that, that don't have a great deal of their own sweet, distinct flavor, and oysters have plenty of flavor, you know it's not as delicate a flavor as crab. And I think horseradish definitely has its place. I think with crab meat, though, it's just over kill. What we're going for here, is a nice, fresh, light, not spicy, not heavy, tomato-based dipping sauce. That's what we have here. So you always want to try it, which might like my finger. And it needs a little more salt, and I'll counterbalance it with some pepper. Just stir that up, and this sauce is ready to go. Just keep it cold. It's always better to make it right before you want to use it, though. And since you can serve it in the same bowl I just made it in here. Look at that. Pretty awesome, huh? That's that sauce. Let's move on to our sour cream sauce while we wait for our water to boil some more."