She crab soup Recipe

  Soup

Ingredients:
3 Tbs. butter/marg.
1-2 stalks celery diced
1-2 scallions chopped
2-3 Tbs. flour to thicken may need a little more.
2 C.fish stock or clam juice
2 C.milk
2 C heavy Crm.
1 1/2-2 lb. chunked/lumped crabmeat
6-8 oz fresh crab roe
1/4 C dry sherry
sal & pepper to taste
old bay seasoning


Directions:
In lg.pot melt butter/marg. add celery & scallon saute til soft not brown ( i also used to saute shallots & garlic to taste with this.Stir in the flour 2 min or so. Add stock or clam juice, milk and cream. Bring to simmer stirring.(you might add more flour to thicken)
Add worstershire sauce to taste ( I think that & the roe make this dish) Add crab meat, roe sherry, salt & pepper simmer some more.
Serve topped w/ a dash or two of old bay anda slice (thin) of lemon, and a sprinle of parslet or cilantro.



Fresh crab roe is only available in spring sothis is seaonal. Bon Appetit

She crab soup
 

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