Best 4 Crab Meat Gratin Recipes

CRAB MEAT AU GRATIN

Steps:

• Preheat the broiler to high.
• Melt two tablespoons of the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the flour and blend well. Do not brown. Add the milk and cook, stirring with a whisk, until blended and smooth. Season with cayenne pepper, nutmeg, salt and pepper.
• Add the cream, bring to a boil and simmer briefly about 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in half of the sherry, beat in the egg yolk well and remove from heat.
• Melt the remaining tablespoon of butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shallots and cook them briefly until wilted. Add the crab meat and cook briefly, stirring gently. Sprinkle with the remaining sherry.
• Spoon the crab meat into a baking dish and smooth over with a spatula. Cover with the hot sauce and spoon it over with a rubber spatula. Sprinkle with the cheese.
• Place the dish under the broiler until golden brown and bubbling hot.

CRAB MEAT AU GRATIN

Steps:

• 1. Saute' celery and onions in butter until tender.
• 2. Slowly blend in flour and mix well
• 3. Pour in milk slowly, stirring constantly until well blended.
• 4. Add egg yolks, salt, black and red pepper. Cook on medium heat for 5 minutes until sauce thickens.
• 5. Rinse crab meat and put into a mixing bowl. pour the cooked sauce over the crab meat. Blend ingredients well and pour into a greased casserole dish or individual oven proof dishes.
• 6. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until light brown.

CRAB MEAT GRATIN

Steps:

• Preheat broiler.
• In a small heavy saucepan cook carrot, celery, and bell pepper in butter over moderate heat, stirring, 1 minute. Add broth, vermouth or wine, and tarragon and boil mixture until liquid is reduced to about 1 tablespoon. Add cream and boil sauce until thickened, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in crab meat, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste and divide mixture between two 1-cup shallow baking dishes. Sprinkle Parmesan over crab mixture and set dishes in shallow baking pan. Broil gratin about 4 inches from heat 2 minutes, or until bubbling and golden, and serve with toasts.

SHRIMP & CRAB MEAT AU GRATIN

Steps:

• Melt butter in a stock pot add flour just heat do not brown cook 3-5 min. Add milk must be stirred constantly; add both cheeses and the 2 tablespoons Of Parmesan cheese as it begins to thicken add the Tony's, Tabasco, Old Bay and lemon juice. Keep stirring, mix the cornstarch with a ¼ cup cold-water mix well and add to mixture stirring constantly. When mixture thickens between 15-20 minutes remove from heat stir in the crab and shrimp. You are now ready to place the mixture into the tart pans. Place a small amount of the remaining parmesan cheese in the bottom of the tart pans fill the pan with mixture leaving ¼ inch at top and cover the mixture with shredded cheddar cheese, place the pans on a cookie sheet bake at 400* for 16-18 min or till the cheese starts to brown. This is a very tasty main course Yields: 10 servin Submitted by JohnTant