The Crab Puffs

A country inn recipe for The Crab Puffs.

OtherSeafoodEasy2 minBy Northstar

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 24 small baked puff pastry shells
  • 8 oz. Snow crabmeat
  • 2 tbsp. butter
  • 1 onion, chopped fine
  • 1/2 green pepper, chopped fine
  • 1 stalk celery, chopped fine
  • 1 tsp. curry powder
  • 1 tbsp. dry or Dijon mustard
  • 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • dash cayenne pepper

Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350F.

  2. 2

    Melt butter and saute onion, pepper and celery until tender.

  3. 3

    Mix in curry powder, mustard, salt, pepper, and cayenne.

  4. 4

    Cook gently for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add flour and sour cream.

  5. 5

    Heat while stirring, bringing to a boil and thickening.

  6. 6

    Add crab, Worcestershire sauce and paprika. Stir and bring to boil again.

  7. 7

    Mixture should have consistency of thick paste.

  8. 8

    Spoon mixture into pastry shell

  9. 9

    Bake until heated through and golden brown.

  10. 10

    Serve with fresh garden salad and Russian dressing.

Tags

country-cookingother