Food

Steamed Mudcrab Legs

Mudcrab legs steamed with butter (Hearthfire), a light dish that restores 12 Health and is cooked at any cooking pot.

Steamed Mudcrab Legs is a seafood dish added by the Hearthfire add-on: the legs of a mudcrab cooked with a knob of butter. It is one of the few cooking-pot recipes that needs no salt at all.

Effects

Eating it restores 12 Health instantly. That is a strong heal for a single-ingredient meat dish, beating the five to ten points most basic cooked meats provide, and the 0.1 weight makes it easy to carry several.

How to make it

Use any cooking pot or cooking spit with:

1x Mudcrab Legs (see Raw Meat)
1x Butter (see Cheese, Dairy and Baking Supplies)

Where to find it

Cook it yourself at any cooking place, such as those in Riverwood and Whiterun. Our sources list no fixed locations or vendors for the finished dish.

Good to know

Mudcrabs also yield Mudcrab Chitin, an alchemy ingredient, so the creature is worth harvesting for more than just its legs.

Where to find it

Cooked at any cooking pot or spit from Mudcrab Legs and Butter.

Crafting materials

1x Mudcrab Legs
1x Butter

Lore notes

Dropped by

Quest reward from

Where it appears

Riverwood

Riverwood is the small lumber village where most Skyrim adventures really begin – blacksmith, inn, trader and the road up to Bleak Falls Barrow.

Whiterun

Whiterun is the trading heart of Skyrim, a hilltop city on the central plains crowned by Dragonsreach. Districts, shops, quests and characters.

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Sources checked: Skyrim/DLC game files (food records, cooking and oven recipes); Elder Scrolls Fandom food and cooking articles