Best Seafood Boil

This seafood boil is loaded with crab, shrimp, clams, smoked sausage, potatoes, and corn cooked in seasoned broth for the absolute best way to enjoy seafood.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Calories: 738 Calories

Ingredients

• 4 lemons, halved
• 6 bay leaves
• 2 medium sweet onions (such as Vidalia®), quartered
• 4 serrano chiles, split in 1/2 lengthwise and seeds and membranes removed
• 2 bunches fresh thyme, tied with string
• 2 heads garlic, peeled and halved
• 6 teaspoons kosher salt, or more to taste
• 3 pounds medium red potatoes, cut in 1/2
• 5 (13 ounce) packages smoked kielbasa sausage, cut into 2-inch pieces
• 6 ears sweet corn, halved
• 30 littleneck clams, scrubbed
• 4 pounds jumbo shrimp, deveined, tail on
• 1.6666667461395 cups seafood seasoning (such as Old Bay®), or more to taste
• 2.5 pounds Alaskan king crab legs

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Fill a very large stockpot fitted with a basket insert with about 8 quarts of water, or about halfway full. Squeeze lemons into the water, tossing the halves in too. Add onions, chiles, garlic, thyme, seafood seasoning, kosher salt, and bay leaves; bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

Step 2

Drain and spread crab, shrimp, sausage, clams, corn, potatoes, and onions out on a newspaper-covered table or on three large serving trays. Sprinkle with a dusting of Old Bay or provide for individual use.

Step 3

Stir potatoes into the pot and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.

Step 4

Next, add sausage and corn; cook another 5 minutes, making sure everything stays covered with the liquid.

Step 5

Add clams and boil until they open, about 8 minutes. Toss in shrimp and shut off the heat. Cover the pot and let shrimp steep in the flavor for 10 minutes, adding crab in the last 5 minutes (press them into the liquid).