Best Crab Canapés With Cumin Recipes

Crab-Meat Parmesan Canapes image

Yield Makes 48 canapés

Number Of Ingredients 6

12 slices homemade-type white bread, crusts discarded and bread cut into 4 triangles
1 cup fresh lump crab meat, picked over
2/3 cup mayonnaise
2/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
4 scallions, chopped fine
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice, or to taste

Steps:

Preheat oven to 400°F.
Toast bread on a baking sheet in oven until golden, about 5 minutes. In a bowl stir together remaining ingredients with salt and pepper to taste. Toasts and crab-meat mixture may be made 1 day in advance.
Reduce oven to 375°F. Spread crab-meat mixture on toasts and arrange on baking sheet. Canapés may be assembled 30 minutes in advance. Bake canapés in middle of oven until puffed, about 10 minutes.

Cucumber-Crab Canapés image

Yield Makes 28 canapés

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 6-ounce can crabmeat, drained, or 4 ounces fresh crabmeat
1/4 cup mayonnaise
3 tablespoons minced red onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1 English hothouse cucumber

Steps:

Gently mix first 5 ingredients in medium bowl; season with salt and pepper.
Cut twenty-eight 1/4-inch-thick round slices from cucumber (reserve remaining cucumber for another use). Arrange cucumber slices on platter. Top each slice with crab mixture.

Crab Canapés with Cumin image

Number Of Ingredients 12

For cumin pita toasts
1/2 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 tablespoon Asian sesame oil
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 (6-inch) pitas with pockets, halved horizontally
For crab mixture
1/4 lb jumbo lump crabmeat
1 1/2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
1 tablespoon finely chopped scallion
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 tablespoon fresh lime juice
Dash of Tabasco

Steps:

Make toasts:
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Stir together oils, cumin, and salt and pepper to taste and brush on cut sides of pitas. Cut each pita half into 8 wedges and arrange, cut sides up, on a large baking sheet.
Bake pitas in middle of oven until edges are crisp, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool (toasts will continue to crisp as they cool).
Make crab mixture while pitas are baking:
Stir together crab ingredients and salt and pepper to taste.
Top each toast with some crab.