Free Recipe New Orleans Crab Canape
Recipe Type: Free Appetizer Recipes
Recipe Preparation: cook
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 50
Ingredients for New Orleans Crab Canape Recipe
2 tb Butter
2 tb Butter
1 White onion, small, or
2 tb Flour
-shallot 4
oz Parmesan cheese (1 cup),
1 tb Flour
-grated
1/2 c Broth, water, or white wine
4 oz Swiss or Gruyere cheese,
3/4 c Cooked (or 6-1/2 oz can)
-grated
-crabmeat, drained 1
Loaf white bread
And flaked
Butter for sauteing
CHEESE TOPPING:
New Orleans Crab Canape Preparation
FORCEMEAT: Melt butter, add onion, and cook over moderate heat until onion is soft. Add flour, stir to blend, cook 1 minute; stir in broth, cooking until smooth. Add crabmeat, simmer 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from fire; cool. Cheese Topping: Melt butter, add flour to make a roux, and cook two or three minutes. Add cheses, blend well. Remove from fire, cool, then form into small firm, round balls. Cut bread into canape-sized pieces; saute in butter. Spread each with the crab mixture; then place a cheese ball over the crab. Just before serving, place in hot oven for 5 minutes until cheese is melted and bubbly. Makes about 50. From: A Salute to Cheese, by Betty Wason, Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1966. Shared by: June Hoffman, 7/93
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