Devilishly Good Deviled Crab (mf)

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Seafood, Meats, Dairy		Oven-md, Seafood-md	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Lump crabmeat
1/2	c	Finely sliced scallions
		white & green parts or
		fresh chives
1/2	c	Fresh celery or fennel
		finely diced
1/2	c	Red bell pepper, finely
		diced
2	t	Dijon mustard
1/2	c	Melted butter
1/4	c	Heavy cream
1	c	Soda cracker crumbs
		coarsely crushed
		Salt and tabasco sauce
1/4	c	Additional crushed soda
		cracker crumbs

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Pick through the crabmeat to remove
bits of cartilage etc. In a mixing bowl combine the crabmeat with the
scallions, celery and bell pepper. (Make sure the green onions,  celery
and bell pepper are very finely chopped because they won't  cook in the
oven and you don't want their raw texture to be  intrusive.) In a
separate mixing bowl combine the mustard with the  butter and cream.
Combine the crabmeat mixture with the melted butter  and cracker
crumbs. Season with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and Tabasco  sauce to taste.
Transfer the mixture to a baking dish. Top with  additional cracker
crumbs and bake for half an hour until the top has  browned.  Variation
instead of combining crabmeat vegetables with the butter and  cream
combine it with 3/4 cup of evaporated skim milk mixed with 1  teaspoon
dry mustard rather than the Dijon mustard. Yield: 4 servings
Copyright, 1997, TV FOOD NETWORK, G.P., All Rights Reserved  MC Busted
by Gail Shermeyer by TVFN Website on April 11, 1997  Recipe by: COOKING
MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW #MF6672 Posted to MC-Recipe  Digest V1 #608 by
4paws@netrax.net (Shermeyer-Gail) on May 12, 1997

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 265 Calories From Fat: 252 Total Fat: 28.7g Cholesterol: 81.4mg Sodium: 3819.5mg Potassium: 84.4mg Carbohydrates: 2.3g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: 1.1g