She-Crab Soup Recipe - Cooking Index
She-Crab Soup Recipe - Cooking Index
Originally this soup was prepared with the meat and roe from female blue crabs. If you're able to get them and prefer cooking them yourself, you'll need eight or nine large crabs to get a pound and a half of meat and roe. Since the crabs can be hard to find, we offer a recipe using lump crabmeat. Our version is as quick and easy as it is delicious.
Type: Fish| 2 | Hard-cooked eggs - (optional) | |
| 3 tablespoons | 45ml | Butter |
| 1 | Scallion including green top - minced | |
| 1 | Celery rib - minced | |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Flour |
| 2 cups | 474ml | Fish Stock - (see recipe) |
| (or use bottled clam juice) | ||
| 2 cups | 474ml | Milk |
| 2 cups | 474ml | Heavy cream |
| 1 1/2 lbs | 681g / 24oz | Lump crabmeat - picked free of |
| Shell fragments | ||
| 1/4 cup | 59ml | Dry sherry |
| 1 1/2 teaspoons | 7.5ml | Salt |
| 1/4 teaspoon | 1.3ml | Freshly-ground black pepper |
| 1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Paprika |
| 6 | Lemon |
If using the eggs, separate the yolks from the whites and save the whites for another use. Press the yolks through a sieve and reserve.
In a large pot, melt the butter over moderately-low heat. Add the scallion and celery and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are soft, about 4 minutes. Add the flour and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Stir in the stock, milk and cream. Bring to a simmer, stirring.
Add the sieved egg yolks, if using, the crabmeat, sherry, salt and pepper and bring almost to a simmer. Ladle into bowls and top each serving with a pinch of paprika and a lemon slice.
This recipe yields 6 servings.
Source:
Culinary Cafe (soup archive) at http://www.culinarycafe.com
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