What have you served alongside crab? Need recs

[amandine]

Hello from Sonoma! My friends' parents are taking care of the crab for dinner tonight, my friend and I are responsible for the sides. No idea what to make. Can you help? Thanks!

[BellaDonna]

Roasted potatoes
Roasted corn on the cob

[hagar4316]

I live on Vancouver Island, and when we say "Crab" we mean Dungeness. The only thing I serve on the side is garlic butter, lots and lots of napkins and a big old paper shopping bag or two for the shells.

[HillJ]

If you have malt vinegar, it works really well with crab.

[LaLa]

Too bad it isn't corn time.

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[chowser]

Finger foods--hush puppies, cold asparagus, french fries. This is another dish where I don't know how to eat the sides that require utensils because my hands are messy and it's a pain to clean them off if I'm just going to have a bite of cole slaw or whatever. I usually finish off the crabs and then have the sides but I'd rather eat them together. What do you all do?

[ChefGirl412]

I was thinking the same thing - good choices. For a salad, what about using the whole leaf with added ingredients. YUM.

[jenniebnyc]

Old Bay dusted french fries or roasted potatoes.
Iceberg wedge with blue cheese, bacon and tomato.
And yes, another vote for coleslaw.

[MikeLM]

Work some avocado into the salad. It goes especially well with crab.

Mike

[Das Ubergeek]

Roasted asparagus -- (garlic) crab and asparagus is a traditional combination in Vietnam.

[oakjoan]

Guess it depends on whether the crab is hot or cold. If it's cold, hot sides seem weird to me. I'd go with a great big salad with different greens and maybe some grapefruit sections and lots of garlic bread - good sourdough or sweet batard-type bread.

I like crab with a cayenne, lemon juice mayo with maybe a little garlic.

[Andiereid]

Oh I hadn't even thought about cold. Anytime someone says crab to me, I see big steaming piles of crab legs and some drawn butter. (And my eyes glaze over...mmmmmm)

[amandine]

It's going to be hot. Thanks for the speedy responses... Definitely thinking bread, salad, potatoes sound good... others?

[kobetobiko]

I like cold creamy coleslaw! Something about crab and mayo (even not on the same dish) that just make me happy! (or may be it's the beer....)

[2m8ohed]

Garlic bread & salad!

[Andiereid]

I always love a good potato gratin and a crisp green salad with my crab legs.