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Crabmeat Remick

This was one of the best dishes at the Pontchartrain Hotel's Caribbean Room, and it still turns up now and then on menus here and there. With crabmeat running so nice right now, it's the perfect time to cook it.
  • 8 slices smoky, thick bacon
  • 1 lb. jumbo lump crabmeat
  • 1 Tbs. lemon juice
Sauce:
  • 1/2 tsp. salt-free Creole seasoning
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. Tabasco
  • 1/4 cup bottled chili sauce
  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 Tbs. Creole mustard
  • 1 Tbs. tarragon vinegar
1. Slice the bacon into squares and fry till crisp. Drain very well and set aside.

2. Divide crabmeat into six small, shallow au gratin dishes. Sprinkle with lemon juice, and heat in 350-degree oven for five minutes.

3. While waiting for crabmeat to warm, blend all the sauce ingredients.

4. When the crabmeat is hot, top each baking dish with an equal portion of crumbled bacon. Pour the sauce right on top, just enough to cover.

5. Turn the oven on broil and place the au gratin dishes three inches from the heat for about a minute--until the sauce begins to bubble. Serve immediately with a warning that the dish is mouth-searingly hot!

Serves eight appetizers or four entrees.

Revised 3/29/08
Copyright © 2008 Tom Fitzmorris. All rights reserved.
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