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This is a recipe from Long Island, Bahamas: Crab 'n Rice:

6 - 8 Crabs
1 Lg Onion
1 Sm Sweet Pepper (optional)
1 Cup fresh (boiled until tender) Pigeon Peas
2 Cups rice
3 - 4 Tbsp Tomato Paste
Salt, pepper, paprika, thyme to taste

First wash crab and remove biters and put aside, separate crab bodies from backs, scoop out crab fat into bowl break bodies into sections, beat bodies and biters with coach beater. Set aside.

Peal and chop onion, and sweet pepper
Fry until tender
Stir in Tomato paste, crab fat and seasonings
Simmer 5 minutes
Add 3 cups of water, bring to boil
Add peas and crab, bring to boil
Boil 5 minutes, add rice and bring back to boil
Turn to simmer and cover pot until water is almost gone Cook on low until rice is tender.

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