Best Crabmeat And Spinach Flan With Smoked Tomato Buerre Blanc Recipes

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SEAFOOD LASAGNE "A LA FRANCAISE"



Seafood Lasagne

Provided by Food Network

Categories     main-dish

Time 1h5m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 13

6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup each shallots, carrots and celery, minced
8 ounces peeled and deveined shrimp, cut into small dice
8 ounces lump crabmeat, picked over
2 tablespoons Cognac
1 cup canned tomatoes drained, chopped
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups light cream
2/3 cup milk
3/4 cup grated Gruyere cheese
Salt and pepper
Pinch nutmeg
1 pound fresh spinach or tomato lasagne sheets (or half pound each)

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a skillet heat 2 tablespoons of butter. When hot add shallots, carrots and celery, cover and cook until wilted, about 5 minutes. Add the shrimp and crab and saute, stirring continuously for 3 to 4 minutes or until seafood is just cooked through. Stir in Cognac and evaporate over high heat. Stir in tomatoes and cook 10 minutes, uncovered, or until mixture is quite thick. Remove from heat and season to taste with salt and pepper.
  • Make a roux: Melt the remaining 4 tablespoons butter and add 4 tablespoons flour. Whisk in cream and milk and simmer five minutes or until thick. Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup of the gruyere cheese; season to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg Cut the pasta sheets into strips 3 to 4 inches wide and long enough to fit into your gratin or baking dish. Boil, a few sheets at a time until 3/4 done. Drain and cool on clean cloths. Generously butter 3 quart capacity baking pan. Spread a thin film of cream sauce over bottom of baking dish. Arrange a layer of 4 overlapping sheets of lasagne. Spread a thin film of cream sauce over pasta, then seafood mixture. Top with pasta and repeat, reserving 1/3 cup of cream sauce for top layer. Finish with a layer of pasta, cream sauce and remaining 1/4 cup of gruyere. Bake, loosely covered with foil for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes or until hot throughout and only slightly golden on top. Let stand in pan for 5 minutes then serve.

CRAB CAKES WITH CRYSTAL BEURRE BLANC



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This recipe came to The Times in 2006 from the Upperline restaurant in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. One bright light after the storms was an unexpected windfall in crab. The storms stirred up the marshes and shook up lots of food, so these crab cakes are made with an ice cream scoop and not a spoon. The real gem of the dish is the Crystal beurre blanc, an idea that mixes high French culinary canon with down-and-dirty New Orleans heat. Crystal Hot Sauce has long adorned many a table in New Orleans. It is more vinegary than Tabasco, which is too hot for this recipe. Baumer Foods had been making Crystal Hot Sauce for more than eight decades when the storms hit. Its New Orleans plant was flooded so badly that it was not reopened, but other bottlers kept Crystal on the shelves until the company could move into its new home, about a half hour's drive from its damaged factory.

Provided by Kim Severson

Categories     brunch, project, main course

Time 50m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 24

1 pound jumbo lump crab meat
1/2 cup chopped scallion
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 cup mashed potatoes
6 tablespoons Crystal or other Louisiana-style hot sauce (do not use Tabasco)
1 large lemon, peeled, pith removed, and halved
2 tablespoons white wine
1/4 cup heavy cream
3/4 pound butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
Salt
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
16-ounce bag baby spinach
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 cups all-purpose flour
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 large eggs
2/3 cup milk
2 cups fine dry bread crumbs
Vegetable oil, as needed

Steps:

  • For the crab cakes: In a large bowl, combine all ingredients for crab cakes. Gently mix to combine. Using an ice cream scoop, make 8 balls and place on a baking sheet or large plate. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. (If crab is very fresh, this may be done a day ahead of time.)
  • For the Crystal beurre blanc: In a small saucepan, combine hot sauce, lemon and wine. Bring to boil over high heat, then simmer until reduced by a third, 3 to 4 minutes. Add cream and again reduce by a third, about 5 minutes. Lower heat and whisk in butter a few pieces at a time, making sure each addition is incorporated before adding next. Pour sauce through a fine-mesh strainer and add salt to taste. If desired, keep warm over a double-boiler.
  • For the spinach base: For the spinach base: Place a large skillet over medium heat, and heat butter and olive oil in it. Add onion and sauté until soft, about 5 minutes. Add spinach in batches, stirring and adding more until it all cooks down. Season to taste with salt and pepper, set aside and keep warm.
  • For frying: Line up three shallow bowls. Place flour in one and season to taste with salt and pepper. Place eggs and milk in the second bowl; beat until mixed. Put bread crumbs in the third. Pat crab cakes into thick disks, like oversize scallops. Dip each into flour mixture, then egg mixture, then roll in bread crumbs. Set on a plate and chill for 30 minutes.
  • Place a large sauté pan or skillet over medium-high heat. Pour in enough oil to come 1/2 inch up side of pan. When oil shimmers, add crab cakes. Cook, turning once, until light golden brown on both sides, about 2 minutes a side. Transfer to paper towels to drain.
  • To serve, place a mound of spinach on each of four serving plates. Place 2 crab cakes next to spinach and pour sauce around them. If desired, serve with more hot sauce.

SEARED SCALLOPS WITH TOMATO BEURRE BLANC



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Categories     Tomato     Sauté     Christmas     Scallop     White Wine     Summer     Gourmet

Yield Makes 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 11

For beurre blanc
1/4 cup packed soft dried tomatoes (not packed in oil; 1 1/4 oz)
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup minced shallot
2/3 cup dry white wine
3 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
For scallops
2 lb large sea scallops (30), tough muscle removed from side of each if necessary
About 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Steps:

  • Make beurre blanc:
  • Soak tomatoes in warm water until softened, 20 to 25 minutes. Drain and pat dry, then mince. Stir together tomatoes, butter, and salt, then form into an 8-inch log on a sheet of plastic wrap and chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 1 hour. Cut tomato butter into 12 equal pieces.
  • Cook shallot in 1 piece of tomato butter (keep remaining butter chilled) in a small heavy saucepan over moderately low heat, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add wine and boil until liquid is reduced to about 1/3 cup, about 10 minutes.
  • Reduce heat to low and whisk in remaining cold tomato butter 1 piece at a time, adding each piece before previous one has completely melted and lifting pan from heat occasionally to cool mixture (sauce should not get hot enough to separate). Whisk in water and lemon juice, then season with salt and pepper.
  • Transfer beurre blanc to a bowl and keep warm, covered, in a larger bowl of warm water.
  • Sauté scallops:
  • Pat scallops dry and season with salt and pepper. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sear 6 to 8 scallops, turning once, until golden brown and just cooked through, 2 to 4 minutes total. Transfer to a platter as cooked and keep warm, loosely covered with foil. Sear remaining scallops in same manner, wiping out skillet and adding about 1 teaspoon oil between batches.
  • Spoon 3 tablespoons beurre blanc onto each of 6 plates, then top with scallops.

POMPANO WITH CRABMEAT AND CITRUS BEURRE BLANC



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Categories     Fish     Lemon     Crab     White Wine     Bon Appétit

Yield Makes 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 15

1/2 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup minced shallots
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3/4 cup whipping cream
2 large eggs
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 6- to 8-ounce skinless pompano fillets or other white fish fillets such as black cod or tilapia
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
8 ounces fresh crabmeat, picked over
Chopped fresh parsley

Steps:

  • Mix wine, shallots, and lemon juice in small saucepan. Boil over medium-high heat until mixture is reduced to 1/3 cup. Add cream; boil gently until thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
  • Whisk eggs and milk in bowl. Mix flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in shallow dish. Dip each fish fillet into egg mixture, then coat both sides of fish with flour mixture. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add fish; cook until just opaque in center, about 4 minutes per side.
  • Whisk sauce over medium heat until heated through; remove from heat. Add butter a few pieces at a time and whisk just until melted. Stir in lemon peel. Season sauce with salt and pepper.
  • Place 1 fish fillet on each of 4 plates; top with crabmeat. Spoon sauce over; sprinkle with parsley and serve.

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