Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, crab bisque. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Crab Bisque is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Crab Bisque is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have crab bisque using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Crab Bisque:
- Get 1 cup onion, minced
- Prepare 1 cup carrot, minced
- Get 21 oz chicken broth (2 X 10.5 ounce cans)
- Make ready 4 tbsp flour
- Get 6 tbsp butter (can omit 2 Tablespoons in step 1, if using cooking spray)
- Get 1 cup heavy cream (see note step 6)
- Get 1/2 cup cooking sherry
- Make ready 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Prepare 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper, to taste
- Make ready 1 salt and white pepper, to taste
- Get 3/4 cup shredded imitation crab meat
- Get 1 optional garnishes - chives, parsley, to your taste
Instructions to make Crab Bisque:
- Saute onion and carrot in 2 Tablespoons of butter until soft. Set aside. (Can be done with cooking spray to reduce fat.)
- In a large saucepan, melt 4 Tablespoons of butter and add flour, whisking constantly over medium heat until roux becomes light brown (about 3-5 minutes). Be careful not to burn!
- Slowly add chicken broth, while whisking constantly.
- Add onions and carrots, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Add cream, sherry, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne pepper, and salt to taste. Simmer an additional 10 minutes. Add shredded imitation crab.
- A note about the heavy cream. I only used half of the cream and added 1% milk for the other half cup. Always trying to lower fat content without ruining the recipe…it still tasted great!!
- Garnish with chives or parsley if desired.
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