crabs garlic butter baked crab legs

🥘 Ingredients

• • king crab legs
• • butter
• • garlic
• • lemon, juice of
• • lime, juice of
• • extra virgin olive oil
• • sea salt
• • dried parsley

📝 Instructions

1. 1 preheat your oven to 375 degrees
2. 2 meanwhile , grab yourself a small saucepan
3. 3 on med low heat , melt the butter
4. 4 add the garlic and lightly saute
5. 5 squeeze in the juice of the citrus of choice
6. 6 if using a lemon , squeeze the juice into your hands so that you can remove the seeds with ease
7. 7 turn the heat to low and let those flavors mesh until the oven is nice and hot
8. 8 toss in as much salt and a couple pinches of parsley
9. 9 then whisk in that olive oil with a fork
10. 10 turn off your burner
11. 11 arrange your tasty crustaceans in a 9x13 baking dish , brushing each leg with the sauce
12. 12 tasty
13. 13 pour any remaining sauce over those puppies
14. 14 now toss the pan into the oven on the center rack
15. 15 bake your crabs for about 25 minutes or so , brushing the sauce from the bottom of the pan onto the legs every 5-7 minutes
16. 16 remove from oven
17. 17 sprinkle with a few pinches o' parsley for garnish
18. 18 i am a lazy gal , detest doing more dishes than i have to , and am a firm believer in the "waste not , want not" phrase
19. 19 with that said , i just serve the crab in the same dish i baked it in so i can dip the meat into the tasty sauce , savoring every last drop
20. 20 if you are the opposite , use tongs and place them on a platter and pour the buttery-goodness into ramekins
21. 21 voila ! crab house comparable delicacy ! "ohhhh my craaaabs !