Atlantic Imperial Crab Recipes

Steps:

• Place crabmeat in large bowl, after removal of cartilage and shell.
• Mix mayonnaise, pimento, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and Tabasco together.
• Pour over crabmeat and toss GENTLY, not to break lumps.
• Divide crabmeat between 8 shell-shaped baking dishes.
• Top each shell with 1 tablespoon mayonnaise.
• Sprinkle with paprika.
• Place baking shells on shallow baking pan (jelly roll type).
• Bake at 375°F for 20 minutes.
• Garnish with sprig of parsley, or cross 2 strips of pimento.

Steps:

• In skillet over medium heat, saute the peppers in the butter until soft. Allow to cool.
• In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients except the crab meat together.
• Gently fold in crab meat, trying to keep the chunks from breaking up. Do not over mix.
• Spoon evenly into 6 buttered scallop shells or individual casserole dishes. Sprinkle lightly with paprika (I use Old Bay) Even though it's not in the original recipe, I always put an additional tiny pat of butter on top of each one before I bake them. You just can't have too much butter when you're eating this!
• Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes. Serve garnished with lemon wedges.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• Melt butter and add flour, salt, pepper and mustard over medium heat.
• Heat and stir until smooth and bubbly.
• Slowly add half and half and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat and add green pepper and worchestershire.
• Fold in crabmeat and pour into 8" x 8" baking dish.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Lightly coat 6 large scallop shellswith nonstick cooking spray or, if you prefer, lightly coat a 6-cup au gratin pan or shallow casserole; set aside. Place the crab in a medium-size mixing bowl and set aside also.
• 2. Tear the bread into small chunks, letting them drop into a mini food processor fitted with the metal chopping blade. Using 3 to 4 brisk pulses, reduce to moderately coarse crumbs. Drizzle the melted butter over all and pulse 2 to 3 times to incorporate. The crumbs should now be moderately fine. Tip onto a piece of wax paper and reserve.
• 3. Add the parsley, salt, black pepper, and cayenne to the processor (no need to wash the bowl or blade), and pulse briskly 3 to 5 times until the parsley is coarsely chopped.
• 4. Add the mayonnaise and mustard and churn until smooth, about 5 seconds. Scoop on top of the crab and toss lightly to mix.
• 5. Mound the crab mixture in the scallop shells or spread evenly in the augratin dish, and scatter the buttered crumbs on top.
• 6. Bake uncovered on the middle oven rack until bubbling and touched with brown, 12 to 15 minutes.
• 7. Serve at once, accompanying with a tartly dressed salad of greens. Roasted asparagus spears also make a delicious accompaniment.