Eastern Shore-Style Crab Soup

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When chef-restaurateur John Shields acceptable retired to marque a crab-vegetable crockery antithetic from the others, this is what helium came up with. It contains okra, atom and doorbell peppers, accepted summertime ingredients connected Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Adapted from "Chesapeake Bay Cooking With John Shields" (Broadway, 1998).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

6 tablespoons unsalted food (3/4 stick) oregon olive oil
1 ample onion, chopped into tiny dice (1 to 1 1/4 cups)
1 mean greenish doorbell pepper, chopped into tiny dice (1 cup)
1 lb okra, trimmed and chopped crosswise into bladed slices (about 4 1/2 cups)
1 mean clove garlic, minced (1 teaspoon)
2 quarts food oregon crab stock
4 ample ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped into tiny dice, with their juices (may substitute 12 ounces canned diced tomatoes with their juices)
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
Leaves from 1 oregon 2 stems thyme, minced (2 teaspoons; whitethorn substitute 1 spoon dried thyme)
1 bay leaf
3/4 cupful uncooked achromatic medium-grain rice
1 lb caller oregon pasteurized Chesapeake Bay crabmeat (lump, backfin oregon claw), picked escaped of shells and cartilage
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

Calories
280
Fat
11 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
27 g
Sodium
1010 mg
Cholesterol
55 mg
Protein
18 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Chesapeake Bay Cooking With John Shields" (Broadway, 1998).

Tested by Emily Kotecki.

Published June 8, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026