Recipe#5790

Title: Crabs Carribbean-style

From the hearth in Sandee's Kitchen...

      Yield: 8 servings
 
      8 tb Butter
      4    Scallions chopped
      1 ts To 2 ts chopped garlic
      1    Hot green chili, finely
           -chopped and seeded
           (or use dried red pepper
           -flakes)
      1 tb Curry powder
    3/4    To 1 lb crab meat, shredded
      2 tb Chopped fresh coriander
           -leaves, if possible
      2 tb Finely chopped parsley
           Salt nd freshly ground
           -pepper
      6 tb To 8 tb crab liquid or clam
           -broth
      2 c  Bread crumbs
 
  Melt butter in skillet; add scallions, garlic and chili peppers and cook
  until scallions are wilted. Add curry powder to this mixture and blend
  thoroughly. Add crab, coriander and parsley. Add salt, pepper and crab
  liquid (if more is needed, add melted butter). Blend in bread crumbs. Fill
  the mixture in 8 clam shells and bake at 400 degrees F about 10 minutes or
  until browned. Serves 8 as an appetizer or 3 to 4 as a main course.