Creamed Crab Recipes

KARYN'S CREAM OF CRAB SOUP

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, blend flour and hollandaise sauce mix with 2 cups half-and-half.
• Melt butter in a medium, heavy saucepan over medium heat. Slowly add hollandaise mixture, stirring constantly until thickened. Add remaining half-and-half, Old Bay, dry mustard, celery seed, and whipping cream. Bring to a simmer and reduce heat to low. Add crabmeat and sherry, stirring gently until warmed through. Serve immediately.

CREAMY CRAB & PEA PASTA

Steps:

• Boil a large pan of salted water. Tip in the pasta, then cook for about 7 mins. Add the peas, then cook for 2-3 mins more until both are cooked through.
• Drain in a colander, reserving a little cooking water, then tip back into the pan with the crabmeat and crème fraîche. Stir well with most of the remaining ingredients, adding a little of the pasta cooking water if the mixture seems a little dry. Serve sprinkled with a little extra chopped chilli, parsley and lemon zest.

CREAMED CRAB ON TOAST

Steps:

• In a 1-qt. microwave-safe dish, combine the soup, crab, lemon juice, marjoram and cayenne. Cover and microwave on high for 3-4 minutes or until heated through, stirring once. Serve on toast or biscuits.

CREAMED CRAB

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine flour and butter-flavored granules. Gradually stir in milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thicken and bubbly. , Stir in the mayonnaise, mustard, hot pepper sauce and pepper until smooth. Stir in crab and cooked egg whites; heat through. Serve with rice.

CREAMED CRAB SANDWICH

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan melt butter, add flour, sea salt, onion powder and black pepper and mix together until flour is cooked. Then pour evaporated milk and water slowly to the flour paste and continue mixing until it starts to thicken and reduce heat, top with cheese and toss together. Add cooked crab or canned crab and toss together just to coat with the tasty creamed sauce. Toast bread and lightly butter, top with creamed crab mixture and serve hot, topped with parmesan cheese, put in the toaster oven or grill to brown if desired. Serve over streamed rice and veggies. Cooking Crab Legs Half full your boiler with water, start to boil and add 1 tsp sea salt to water and then your crab legs. If crab legs are freshly got from the market and uncooked, cook for 8 to 10 minutes, only until the crab meat is pink, not over cooked. If reheating crab legs from a previous cook just 4 to 5 minutes will work great.

CREAMY CRAB CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Blend cheese, mustard, worcheshire sauce and sour cream till smooth.
• Stir in celery and onion.
• Fold in crab meat.
• Put into quiche dish that has been sprayed with Pam.
• Sprinkle with Old Bay or paprika.
• Bake at 350 degress for 35-40 minutes.
• I always double, and sometime even triple, this recipe.

CREAMY CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• In a food processor, combine the egg yolk, vinegar, mustard, bell pepper, onion, 2 tspon parsley, tabasco, paprika, thyme, salt and pepper.
• Slowly add the oil until the mixture emulsifies and forms a thin mayonnaise.
• Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the sour cream.
• Stir in the crabmeat, gently to prevent from breaking the lumps.
• Form 8 patties, 3 inches wide by 3/4 inch thick.
• Put the bread crumps in a shallow plate and mix in the 3 tbsp of parsley.
• Lightl dredge the patties on both sides in the bread crmbs.
• Cover the crab cakes with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour or longer.
• Heat a skillet with butter over low to medium heat.
• Add the crab cakes, fry for about 4 minutes perside or until golden brown.

CREAMED LUMP CRAB MEAT WITH COUNTRY HAM

Steps:

• Pick over the crab to remove any traces of shell or cartilage.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a heavy skillet. Add the curry powder and the scallions. Cook, stirring, until wilted. Add 2 tablespoons of the sherry and cook briefly.
• Add the cream, half-and-half and Worcestershire sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Set aside. Keep warm.
• In a nonstick skillet, heat the remaining butter, and add the crab meat and the remaining sherry. Heat briefly without stirring, and remove from the heat.
• Add 1/4 cup of the hot cream mixture to the egg yolks. Stir well with a whisk to blend. Return this mixture to the sauce, stirring rapidly. Remove from the heat.
• Spoon the sauce over the crab meat.
• Preheat the broiler and prepare the toasts.
• Heat the ham under the broiler and place the toasts on serving dishes. Add the ham slices. Top with the crab meat and the cream sauce, dividing evenly. Serve with lemon wedges.

CREAMED CRAB

Steps:

• Remove and discard shell from crabmeat; set aside. Melt margarine in a large saucepan over low heat. Add flour; cook, stir in milk, crabmeat and seasonings. Transfer to a chafing dish. Serve over herbed toast points. Editor's Extra: Stir a little basil or mixed herbs into soft butter and spread on hot toast cut on the diagonal. I like to make these first so they get dry and crusty-sooo good with Creamed Crab on top.