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Caribbean Crab Soup
Recetario Digital presents this crab soup as a traditional dish of Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.

About Caribbean Crab Soup
Recetario Digital presents this crab soup as a traditional dish of Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. Its Bluefields collection combines fresh crab with coconut milk, potatoes and green plantain.
The coconut is grated and pressed with water to make the soup’s milky base. Red onion, garlic, peppers and tomato cook in oil before the coconut milk, bay leaf and cilantro join them.
The crab meat simmers with the vegetables in the coconut broth. Limón juice seasons the finished soup, with achiote and a hot chilli offered as optional additions.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Crustaceans.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Caribbean Crab Soup
Recetario Digital’s Bluefields fresh-crab and coconut soup.
- Fresh whole crabsProtein
- Fresh coconutBase
- PotatoBase
- Green plantainBase
- Red onionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- Green bell pepperBase
- Red bell pepperBase
- TomatoBase
- CilantroAromatic
- Bay leafAromatic
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- AchioteSeasoning · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- Limón juiceLiquidIngredient page not linked
- Hot chilliSeasoning · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Fresh whole crabs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Crustaceans source-confirmed. Actual116/135 whole fresh crab branch boiled/picked; Crustaceans, species unspecified.
- Fresh coconut: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual117/134 grated/pressed with water to make own milk, not canned alternative.
- Potato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green plantain: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Red onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green bell pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Red bell pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cilantro: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bay leaf: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual127/140 unqualified pepper.
- Achiote (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual optional128/136, exact form unspecified.; Ingredient page link pending verification or catalogue review
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual129 generic botanical medium unknown.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual coconutextraction134, crabboil135, soupconsistency139.
- Limón juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual131/140 Spanish limón, exact citrus species unprovided; no forced lemon/lime.
- Hot chilli (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual optional132/140 cultivar unqualified.
Origins & food traditions
Nicaragua association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Nicaragua
- NicaraguaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Nicaraguan Cuisine
- Caribbean Cuisine
- Nicaraguan Caribbean Creole CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.