Seafood-Stuffed Crabs

Main Course

Recipe courtesy of Cajun Cuisine

Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients: 
  • 1 cup of chopped onions
  • 1 cup of chopped celery
  • ¼ cup of chopped bell pepper
  • ¼ cup of butter or oleo
  • salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper to taste
  • ½ cup of chicken broth
  • 12 slices of day-old bread, toasted
  • 1 pound of crab meat
  • 1 cup of cooked shrimp, peeled and chopped
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • ½ cup of chopped green onion tops
  • ½ cup of chopped parsley
  • Bread crumbs

Seafood-Stuffed Crabs

Seafood-Stuffed Crabs

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Method: 

Sauté onion, celery, and bell pepper in butter until vegetables are transparent; add salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and chicken broth and simmer for 20 minutes.

Chop bread slices in food processor or blender and add to vegetable mixture; gently fold in crabmeat and shrimp and remove from heat.

Cool slightly and gradually add eggs, stirring until eggs are absorbed; add green onion tops and parsley.

Stuff mixture into cleaned crab shells or ramekins; sprinkle with bread crumbs and dot with butter.

Bake at 350ºF for 20 minutes or until brown and crusty on top.


 

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