Preparation time : 30 minutes
Cooking time : 40 minutes
Serves : 6 members
Description
I never knew what a casserole was until one day my best buddy sulu shared her chicken casserole recipe. From then, I have been trying out new casserole recipes frequently. This crab casserole recipe also was a try when I had to come up with ten innovative crab recipes for the tamil magazine aval kitchen to be published in their November -2016 issue. I wanted to bake crab meat with its shell as one innovative dish and came up with this crab casserole recipe. Had my doubts about the shell braking which baking. Touch wood, nothing of that sort happened. It turned out even better than I visualized it. When shared in my Facebook wall it was one among the most liked post too. Sharing recipes with you all is sure a gamble. As the most excited recipe I think would be welcomed by you all gets unnoticed and recipes that might be in my notes for years which I think will be of no use tingle the spark in you all. No matter what, I love this platform of sharing recipes with you all. To more recipe sharing, recipe trial and errors, more food related stories and more food images from me with love as always to my sauté, fry n bake family for ever and ever.
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Crab | 1 kg |
| Onion | 3 sliced |
| Green chillies | 1 chopped |
| Ginger garlic paste | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Tomato | 2 blanched , skinned and chopped |
| Salt + pepper | to taste |
| Capsicum | 1 chopped |
Method
- Clean the crab. Reserve the cover of the crab shells. Drop into boiling water. Drain and keep aside.
- Boil cleaned crab pieces with salt and pepper to done. Separate the flesh from the bones. Reserve the left over crab cooked water / stock.
- Boil onions, green chillies, ginger garlic paste, salt, pepper and capsicum with left over water from boiled crab.
- Add crab flesh and tomatoes. Set aside to cool completely.
White sauce ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Butter | 1 1/2 tablespoon |
| Maida | 3 tablespoons |
| Milk | 2 cups |
| Mustard paste | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Salt + pepper | to taste |
Method for white sauce
- Melt butter in a wide sauce pan. In low flame, add the flour to the melted butter little by little stirring continuously through out making sure no lumps are formed or gets burnt.
- Remove the pan from heat, add milk and mix well vigorously making sure no lumps are formed.
- Once it’s mixed well, place over low heat and keep stirring to get a creamy, lump free white sauce.
- Add mustard paste, salt and pepper to taste. Set aside and Cool completely.
How to proceed
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Butter | 1/2 teaspoon to grease |
| Eggs | 3 |
| Salt + pepper powder | to taste |
| Cheese | 1 cup or more grated |
| Red / yellow / green capsicum | 1 cut into strips to decorate |
- Grease the inside of the crab shells with butter. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.
- Mix the cooled onion and crab, tomato mixture along with white sauce. Mix well .
- Beat 3 eggs with salt + pepper to taste. Add to the crab white sauce mixture and pour into the greased crab shells.
- Add grated cheese over the top. Decorate with capsicum strips.
- Bake in the pre heated oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until the cheese on top melts to get a golden crust and starts bubbling from bottom to top.
- Remove from oven cool a bit and serve warm or hot as it is.
