Blue Crab Fritters:
Combine shredded crab with 3/4 cup mayonnaise,
Cook on medium until the soup thickens, about 15 - 20 minutes
Place whole tomatoes, water, lima beans, corn, sliced carrots, chopped onion, Old Bay seasoning, and beef broth, in a 4 quart pot. Heat to simmer, cover, and cook for 5 minutes.
Bring 1 gallon water to boil. Add crab claws and boil 6 minutes. Drain crab and set aside
Stir crabmeat (and crabs claws, if desired) into tomato and vegetable mixture. Cover and simmer 10-15 minutes longer. Serve hot.
How to make blue crab cakes.
In a large bowl, stir together egg, mayonnaise, mustard, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, crab boil seasoning, pepper, salt and hot pepper sauce.
Gently mix in the crabmeat, cracker crumbs and bell pepper.
Form eight patties, each 3/4 inch thick.
Warm the oil and butter together over medium-high heat.Fry the crab cakes 5 to 7 minutes on each side or until they are golden. Drain them.
Serve immediately.Squeeze lime or lemon juice over them.
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Add in the crab and simmer with the lid
Combine all ingredients except crab, flour and butter (or oil) and adjust seasoning.
Gently fold into crab meat.
Portion into 3 1/2-ounce cakes.
Lightly flour and saute in butter (or oil). Serve immediately with \"Cocktail Sauce From Hell.\"
Serves 6.
Heat butter; add onions and celery.
Simmer.
Add flour, stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add half and half and 1 cup cream. Boil slowly for 10 minutes.
Add salt, pepper, nutmeg and mustard to taste.
Add remaining cup of cream and crab meat.
Simmer several minutes.
Before serving, add sherry; heat thoroughly. Serves 8 to 10.
Rinse and drain crab meat.
Remove any shell pieces.
Cook onion and mushrooms in butter until tender.
Combine crab meat, onion, mushrooms, eggs, cream, parsley, salt and pepper.
Bake pie shell in hot oven (450\u00b0) for 7 minutes.
Pour ingredients into pie shell.
Sprinkle dash of paprika on top.
Top with 1/4 cup Swiss cheese, grated.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
Let stand 10 minutes.
Serves 6. Anna makes this at Christmas.
Remove remaining shell and cartilage from crab meat.
Cook bacon until crisp; crumble and set aside.
Saute vegetables in bacon grease.
Saute
in olive oil, onion and green pepper until onion is transparent.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Add Ragu sauce and 1
cup of water.\tBring to boil, stirring well.
Reduce heat. Add
crab meat
and drained mushrooms.
Mix well.
Bring to a simmer and add dash of garlic salt.
Cook all vegetables together in water, barely enough to cover, and let simmer 1 hour.
In another pot, boil crabs very gently 1/2 hour.
Remove from water and cut into small pieces, shells and all.
Put into vegetables along with liquid in which the crabs were cooked. Add crab meat and legs.
Simmer gently 1 hour.
Warm a little water in a saucepan. Work butter and flour in and add cream, stirring carefully. Stir this mixture into crab soup.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Melt butter in a soup pot until tender.
Add minced garlic, cook for 30 seconds on medium heat.
Stir in remaining ingredients, *except crab* until heated thoroughly. (Add optional ingredients if using).
Stir carefully, add crab meat, making sure not to break up crab chunks.
Serve in warmed bowls, (warm bowls under warm water for 1 minute) adding croutons to float on top.
Fold together all ingredients, except 1 Tbls. Parmesan.
Spread evenly into an oven-proof baking dish.
Microwave on 50% power for 4 minutes.
Sprinkle top with Parmesan.
Transfer dish to the oven and broil until top is slightly browned.
Notes: Serve with tri-colored corn tortilla chips. Shrimp base is a thick, paste-like bouillon that can be found in the supermarket next to the bouillon and granules. If you can't find it, use chicken soup base OR 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules.
In a large skillet, combine butter and olive oil and saute onion and garlic over medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes, add the flour and cook and stir until flour is well blended. Stir in broth, tomatoes, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 10 minutes. Add crab meat and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in spinach and cook just until fresh spinach melts or the packaged spinach is hot. Toss hot pasta with 1/3 Parmesan cheese, then top pasta with crab-tomato sauce. Pass remaining cheese.
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Form the crab mixture into 6 2 inch
eat.
With tongs, transfer crab pieces to a large ovenproof
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While the soup is simmering, clean the crabs
arge mixing bowl, toss the crab with your hands (feel for
about 8 minutes).
Add crab meat, butter and soaked bread
Simmer 2 to 3 hours.