Free Recipe Tulip, Crab, and Asparagus Appetizers
Recipe Type: Free Appetizer Recipes
Recipe Preparation: boil
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Recipe Serves: 25
Ingredients for Tulip, Crab, and Asparagus Appetizers Recipe
3 oz Cream cheese; softened
1 ds Pepper or cayenne
2 ts Lemon juice
1 c Crab meat, flaked
1 tb Minced chives
25 Fresh asparagus spears
1 ts Minced fresh dill or mint
25 Tulip petals
-(Optional)
Tulip, Crab, and Asparagus Appetizers Preparation
In a medium bowl, beat cheese with lemon juice, herbs, and pepper; stir in crab. Break tough ends off asparagus. Blanch in 1 inch of boiling water in a large skillet with a lid, or steam standing upright in a couple of inches of water in a tall, narrow pot, until crisp-tender, 2 to 5 minutes, depending on thickness of stems. Plunge into an ice-water bath for 1 minute; then pat dry. Trim asparagus to abut 5 inches; from the trimmings, cut as many 1/4-inch rounds as you have tulip petals. Save extra ends for salads. Fill each tulip petal with about 1/2 a rounded teaspoon of crab mixture and garnish with an asparagus round. (If your petals are large and asparagus thin, you can use 3 rounds to garnish each filled petal.) Arrange asparagus in a fan on a serving platter and place tulip petals alternately (or create your own pattern). Source: Cooking from the Garden – by Rosalind Creasy ISBN: 0-87156-731-8 Typed for you by Karen Mintzias
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