Antillean Crab Pilaf Recipes

DEVILED DUNGENESS CRAB WITH WILD RICE AND ORZO PILAF

Steps:

• For the sauce:
• Place clarified butter in a saucepan and add shallots and celery. Cook until soft. Add flour and cook until mixture reaches an amber color. Add hot milk and mix with a wire whisk to a smooth sauce. Add remaining ingredients to the sauce and cook for 10 minutes.
• For the Rice and Orzo:
• Combine rice and orzo. Add olive oil and lemon pepper. Mix well and put into the bottom of the crab shells.
• Preheat the broiler.
• For the crab:
• Saute crab meat in butter. Add Sherry until heated. Add the sauce to the crabmeat and mix well. Place the mixture on top of the rice and top with bread crumbs, butter, and Parmesan. Place under the broiler until golden brown.
• Serve with the sauce.
• For the wild rice:
• Wash the rice in cold water and strain. Lightly saute shallots in olive oil until transparent. Add wild rice and chicken stock. Bring to a boil and then turn down to a slow simmer and cover. Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes until moisture is totally evaporated. Cool down in refrigerator.
• Bring salted water to a rolling boil. Add orzo and cook for 8 minutes. Strain orzo and cool down in ice water. When cool, strain and place in refrigerator.

ANTILLEAN CRAB PILAF

Steps:

• To assemble the matete, in a large Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed saucepan, heat the oil over a medium heat, and add the oil. Lightly fry the smoked ham hock for about 5 minutes, just to quickly seal and color the outside.
• Remove the meat and set aside.
• To the remaining hot oil, add the scallions, garlic, the claws, and the crab .
• Scoop the contents of each shell, including crab juices, into the saucepan (this is what permeates the dish with that wonderful crab taste).
• Add the parsley, celery leaves, water, thyme, chile, bay leaves, and the fried smoked ham hock.
• Stir the mixture, taking care not to crush the chile.
• Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil and add the rice. Stir again to mix.
• Lower the heat and cover. Simmer slowly until the rice is soft and cooked and all the liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes. Remove the chile.
• To serve, arrange the matete on a large serving platter, taking care to display some crab throughout. Serve hot -- the aroma alone will drive you nuts!

CRAB RISOTTO - KANI ZOSUI -

Steps:

• Discard white tendons from crabmeat, and flake meat into pieces.
• Beat eggs.
• Chop scallion.
• Place dashi and seasonings in a pot, bring to a boil.
• Add rice and crabmeat.When it boils for the second time, turn heat down to medium, and cook for 2-3 minutes.
• Add genger juice, and pour in beaten eggs in a circular motion.
• When egg is half done, cover and remove from heat.
• Transfer to soup bowls, and sprinkle with nori.

ARMENIAN PILAF

Steps:

• In a large nonstick skillet, saute the onion, bulgur, rice and vermicelli in butter for 6-7 minutes or until golden brown. Add the broth, water and oregano; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes or until rice is tender. Remove from the heat; let stand for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.

RICE PILAF LIKE JOE'S CRAB SHACK

Steps:

• Bring first 4 ingredients to a boil in a sauce pan.
• Add rice, cover and cook till rice is tender and water is absorbed, about 20 minutes.
• Sauté celery, pepper, onion, and 1 t butter till tender.
• Stir vegetables into rice.
• Remove bay leaf before serving.

ANN'S RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Dissolve chicken bouillon in water in a bowl.
• Melt butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir vermicelli pieces until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
• Pour bouillon mixture into the skillet with the vermicelli.
• Stir rice, black pepper, salt, and Greek seasoning into the vermicelli mixture and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to low; simmer until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed, 20 to 25 minutes.

CARIBBEAN CRAB PILAF WITH COCONUT MILK

Steps:

• Heat the oil and butter in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-high heat and add the onion, carrot, and garlic. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes, then add the curry powder and pepper and cook 2-3 minutes longer. Add the rice and sauté for another 2 minutes. Add the tomato, crabmeat, coconut milk, 1 1/2 cups water, bitters, lime juice, and salt and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover, and cook for 15-20 minutes, until the liquid is absorbed. Remove the pan from the heat and let it stand, covered, for an additional 10 minutes. Stir the rice and season it with the salt and hot sauce. Serve garnished with scallions and herbs.

ARMENIAN RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Melt butter in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the egg noodles and stir until they begin to brown, being careful not to burn the butter. Stir in the rice. Continue stirring until rice is coated with butter.
• Pour in the chicken broth and add the bouillon cubes. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low and cover tightly. Cook without uncovering pot until all the liquid has been absorbed, about 20 minutes.

MINTED BARLEY PILAF

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add carrot, celery, and salt; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Add barley and mix to coat with oil; cook and stir until barley is golden brown, about 5 minutes.
• Stir chicken stock, water, thyme, and sage into barley mixture. Cover pot and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until liquid is absorbed, about 45 minutes. Remove pot from heat and stir mint into barley pilaf. Cover pot and allow flavors to blend, 5 to 10 minutes.

CRANBERRY AND ALMOND RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet or Dutch oven over medium heat. Cook and stir onion in hot oil until tender and translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Stir cranberries and jasmine rice into onion until rice is coated with oil and rice is lightly toasted, about 5 minutes more.
• Pour chicken broth into skillet and season with kosher salt and black pepper.
• Bring rice mixture to a boil over high heat, then cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed, about 22 minutes.
• Remove skillet from heat; stir green onions, cilantro, and almonds into rice mixture. Adjust seasoning if necessary.

ARMENIAN PILAF

Steps:

• Toast pasta in a medium saucepan over medium heat until deep golden brown, about 4 minutes. Add butter, and let melt. Add rice, and stir in stock and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and let simmer, covered, until liquid has been absorbed and rice is tender, about 16 minutes. Let stand, covered, for 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork.

CANARY ISLANDS CHICKEN " MY STYLE"

Steps:

• Place chicken in the bag. Add all dry ingredients, add sherry and olive oil. Once bag is closed, shake well to let ingredients mix and run around.
• Make two little pinches on top of bag, place in an oven tray and put it into the oven at 375ºF for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, depending on how big your chicken is or how well done you like it. I prefer chicken well done with a crusty skin.
• When done, let it cool a little and then open bag carefully. Take out chicken and collect all the liquid (there`ll be plenty of it), and please careful--no fainting with the superb smells that will surround you, so different to usual roast chicken in USA. The hint here is the dry sherry wine--the better the label, the best results. Old Spanish wisdom in this wine!
• Note: As I like mixing different cultures and traditions, try this with a good challah or a southern style cornmeal as well as a salad (only greens, onion and tomatoes and, of course a good Spanish olive oil, salt and vinegar).

EASY LEMON RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Combine egg yolks, cream, lemon juice, and lemon zest in a bowl; whisk thoroughly.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add rice; cook, stirring constantly, until opaque, 3 to 4 minutes. Add chicken broth; stir quickly. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer until rice is tender and liquid has been absorbed, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Fold lemon-cream mixture into the rice; mix well. Stir in Parmesan cheese and parsley.