Cooking Crab Stuffed Shrimp

Series Summary

Shrimp must be one of the best choices of seafood to be found and crab stuffed shrimp is one of the best ways of preparing shrimp. It is a delicious, albeit expensive, appetizer and a popular main course many times. How to can you enjoy crab stuffed shrimp and still enjoy not being broke? Well, you can start by cooking your own shrimp and crab. Learning how to cook this dish is not as difficult as you think, in fact it's easy! All you need is some expert cooking advice and you'll be ready to make crab stuffed shrimp in minutes!

In this free cooking video series, learn how to make crab stuffed shrimp from restaurant owner Richard Buccola. Richard will teach you all about preparing, cooking, and serving the shrimp and crab. He will tell you what ingredients you will need to make crab stuffed shrimp and he will demonstrate how to buy shrimp, how to de-vein and de-shell shrimp, how to wash shrimp, how to season water to boil shrimp, how to cook shrimp for shrimp cocktail, and how to add the crab. Additionally our expert will teach you numerous ways of serving your crab stuffed shrimp.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Rich Buccola here in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make stuffed shrimp. Alright today, great one for you. This is a nice one for dinner, it's stuffed shrimp, we're going to be using crab. Now you can go out and buy lump crab meat, which I'll talk about later, or you can have some of these beautiful King crab legs that I had leftover, and make your own crab meat which I'm going to do today because I think I saw crab, lumped crab meat at like twenty dollars a pound . Where, this is a lot cheaper, not that much if you think about it but definitely about ten dollars a pound as opposed to twenty dollars a pound already done for you. Alright, so what are we going to do? We're going to get some great shrimp. Let me talk about stuffed shrimp first of all. What I know about it is that it's amazing. It's taking some crab meat and mixing it with, making a nice stuffing and stuffing your shrimp with it. Putting it in your oven, it just cooks golden brown and comes out yummy, yummy, yummy and it's a great dinner. A great way to impress the girls, guys. When I come back I want to start showing you how to pick some fresh shrimp and we will do this whole beautiful meal of stuffed shrimp here on Expert Village."