Salt-and-Pepper Crabs | Saveur

Ingredients

• For the Chile Oil
• 8 cups vegetable oil
• 12 long, hot red wax chiles, chopped
• 1 (3 1/2'') piece fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
• 1 head garlic, cloves separated, peeled, and chopped
• For the Crabs
• 3⁄4 cup flour
• 1⁄2 cup sweet paprika
• 2-3 Tbsp. salt
• 1 Tbsp. freshly ground black pepper
• 2 (1 1/2–2 lb.) large blue or dungeness crabs, thoroughly scrubbed