Crab Butter Rice Noodles
Crab meat tossed through buttered white rice noodles with garlic and a hard squeeze of lemon. Fifteen minutes to a zinc-and-selenium dinner that costs a third of what a restaurant charges.
- Total
- 20 min
- Yield
- 2
- Category
- Lunch
10 prep · 10 cook
servings
Crab
Ingredients
0 / 7Method
-
Step 1
Soak the rice noodles in hot tap water for 10 minutes, or according to the package. They should be pliable but still firm - they finish in the pan.
-
Step 2
Melt the butter in a wide pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook 60 seconds, until fragrant but not colored.
-
Step 3
Add the drained noodles and toss for 2 minutes so every strand picks up butter.
-
Step 4
Fold in the crab meat and cook just until heated through, about 2 minutes. Crab is already cooked; you are warming it, not cooking it.
-
Step 5
Kill the heat. Squeeze the lemon over everything, salt to taste, and finish with parsley if you have it.
Why this recipe
Why crab
Crab carries zinc and selenium in amounts that rival oysters, and it is easier to find good crab meat than good oysters inland. White rice noodles are the same starch as white rice with the bran stripped - the anti-nutrients live in the bran. This is a weeknight shellfish dinner that does not require shucking anything.
Free grocery list
Get the 50 Man Foods grocery list and the complete recipe guide.
Crab is one of them. The full list is what to buy, how much, and what to do with it once it is in the fridge.
- Every food on the list, ranked by what it is actually richest in
- One week of shopping, with the cuts and the sources worth paying for
- A recipe for each one, so none of it dies in the crisper drawer
One email. Unsubscribe any time.
Already on the list
Get the 50 Man Foods grocery list and the complete recipe guide.
We already have your address, so this is one click.
Sent to the address we have for you.
Yours already
Get the 50 Man Foods grocery list and the complete recipe guide.
You are on the list, so it is already in your inbox history — and here it is again.
Sent to your account address.

