Nova Scotia Crab Quiche Recipes

Steps:

• Saute onion in butter until soft.
• Add crabmeat, stir until heated through.
• Sprinkle the bottom of the pie shell with Parmesan Reggian cheese.
• Place crab and onion mixture in pie shell.
• Sprinkle with feta cheese and then top with grated Swiss cheese on top of the crabmeat mixture.
• Mix eggs, cream, salt, and cayenne pepper.
• Slowly pour mixture over ingredients in pie shell.
• Bake on the top rack of the oven at 375 degrees until done, about 25 minutes.
• Cool before slicing.
• Serve at room temperature.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees (375 degrees for glass plate).
• Spray a 9" pie plate with non-stick spray.
• Combine chopped crab, onion and cheese.
• Press into pie plate.
• Beat together remaining ingredients except paprika and pour over the crab.
• Sprinkle with paprika.
• Bake 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Fill a large pot halfway with lightly salted water; bring to a boil. Add onions and carrots; cook until slightly tender, 10 minutes. Add potatoes; cook until tender, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Stir in salmon, cod, scallops, shrimp, lobster, and crab; cook over medium heat until salmon and cod are firm but chunks are still slightly translucent in the center, about 10 minutes. Drain half the water from the pot and add clams, heavy cream, and half-and-half. Place butter chunks atop the soup; season with salt and black pepper. Cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until salmon and cod are fully cooked and flake easily with a fork, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Line 8 2" aluminum tart pans with thinly rolled pastry.
• Preheat oven to 375F.
• Combine and stir mushrooms with brandy or lemon juice.
• Shred crab, removing any hard parts.
• Fill each tart with alternate layers of mushrooms, crab and grated cheese.
• Beat eggs, flour, nutmeg, salt and cream.
• Pour equally over each tart.
• Place in baking pan and bake 20-30 mins or until custard is set, and top is golden brown.
• If you are preparing this in advance, cool thoroughly and wrap each tart in square foil. Refrigerate or freeze.
• To reheat, unwrap and place in a 375F oven 10-15 mins.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Saute bacon til crisp.
• Remove bacon from pan and put onions in pan.
• Cook til soft but not brown.
• Remove onions from pan.
• Combine bacon, onion, crabmeat and parsely.
• Mix well and spoon into pie shell.
• Combine eggs and cream.
• Season with salt& pepper and pour over crab mixture.
• Bake for about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and custard is set.

Steps:

• Sprinkle crabmeat and cheese into pie shell.
• Beat together remaining ingredients.
• pout over crabmeat and cheese.
• Bake in a preheated 357 degree oven 30-35 minutes until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool 5 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• To make the dough, put chilled butter, shortening, flour, and salt in a mixer with a paddle attached.
• Mix on medium until blended, about 3-4 minutes.
• (It will look like cornmeal.) Then add the water.
• As soon as the dough comes together, turn the mixer off.
• This should only take about 10 seconds.
• (Do not over mix) Take dough out of machine and chill in refrigerator for about 1 hour.
• Prepare the custard by mixing all ingredients together.
• Roll out dough to about 1/4-inch thick.
• Line the bottom of a 9-inch pie dish.
• Sprinkle 1/2 of each cheese on the bottom.
• Add crab meat.
• Sprinkle herbs over crab meat.
• Sprinkle on the rest of the cheese.
• Pour custard over all the ingredients almost to the top of the pie dish.
• Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 325 degrees F.
• Let stand 30 minutes before serving.
• (Recipe courtesy The National Enquirer).

Steps:

• Place pie shell on a rimmed baking sheet.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 3 minutes; remove from oven, and gently prick with fork.
• Bake 5 minutes longer; cool on rack.
• Sprinkle cheese in pastry shell.
• Remove cartilage from crabmeat; place on top of cheese.
• Sprinkle with green onions.
• Beat eggs until foamy; stir in half-and-half, salt, lemon rind, dry mustard, and pepper.
• Pour into pastry shell.
• Sprinkle with almonds.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
• Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat Oven to 350 Degrees.
• Sautee Mushrooms in Butter for 3 -4 minutes.
• Remove with slotted spoon and blot thoroughly.
• Beat Eggs with Sour Cream, Spinach, Cottage Cheese, Parmesan, Flour and Seasonings.
• Drain Crab and blot dry with paper towels.
• Fold Mushrooms (reserve a ¼ of the mushrooms), Crab, and Cheese into Egg Mixture.
• Spread into 9" Glass Casserole Dish.
• Arrange remaining Mushrooms on top of Egg Mixture.
• Bake for 1 hour, or until set.
• Let sit for about 5 minutes before cutting.