 
This recipe consists of crab in cream sauce, delicately flavored with tarragon and a touch of Cognac. Photo courtesy Miller’s Select Crabmeat.
April 2010
Updated June 2010 |
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Crabe En Coquille
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Crabe En Coquille
Made with scallops instead of crab, this dish is known as Coquilles Saint-Jacques.
Ingredients
- 3 cans Miller’s Select Jumbo Lump Crab Meat
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh-grated nutmeg
- 1/4 cup whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons shallots, finely
chopped
- 2 tablespoons Cognac
- 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, finely chopped (or 1 teaspoon dried)
- 4-6 scallop shells or heatproof ramekins
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- Grated Gruyère or Swiss cheese
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Melt half the butter and add flour, stirring with a wire whisk. Add milk and stir vigorously. When sauce has thickened, add salt, pepper and nutmeg.
- Melt remaining butter in a saucepan and cook shallots briefly. Stir Cognac and tarragon into the shallots, then add crab and heat briefly without breaking lumps.
- Add half the sauce to the crab and fill shells evenly with crab mixture. Grate cheese on top of crab mixture.
- Place in oven and bake for 5 minutes. Heat remaining sauce and spoon over the individual shells; garnish with whole tarragon sprigs.
- Serve with Chardonnay or white Burgundy.
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