Crab Soup Margaret Jennings
2014-12-28- Cuisine: American
This recipe serves 8
Ingredients
- 1 lb crabmeat, drained and picked over
- 1/2 cup milk Milk, reduced fat, fluid, 2% milkfat, with added vitamin A
- 2 Tbs butter Butter, without salt
- 2 cups Sauce Bechamel
- 1 cup cream or more Cream, fluid, heavy whipping
- salt and pepper Peppers, sweet, red, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt
- 1/3 cup whiskey (scotch or rye)
- BECHAMEL SAUCE
- 3 Tbs butter Butter, without salt
- 3 Tbs flour Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, unbleached
- 1 1/4 cups liquid ( light cream,milk,chicken,fish or vegetable broth)
- salt, pepper,nutmeg, tabasco
Method
Step 1
Heat crabmeat in milk and butter. Prepare light bechamel sauce, and add the cream to it after it has come to a boil.
Step 2
Add crabmeat, and again bring to a boil. Season to taste, and add more cream if the soup needs thinning.
Step 3
Just before serving stir in the whiskey. Serve in heated cups with a sprinkling of finely chopped parsley
Step 4
SAUCE INSTRUCTIONS
Step 5
Combine butter and flour and cook over low heat for 2-3 mins, stirring gently with a whisk. Gradually pour in heated liquid while stirring and continue to stir until the mixture thickens
Step 6
Season to taste
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