Herb-Stuffed Soft-Shell Crabs with Fresh Corn Spoon Bread

Name: Herb-Stuffed Soft-Shell Crabs with Fresh Corn Spoon Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper; 1 Tbsp butter; 237 milliliters fresh white corn kernels (about 2 ears); 2 Tbsps cornmeal; 4 larges egg whites; 2 larges egg yolks; 118 milliliters all-purpose flour; 59 milliliters finely chopped fresh basil; 2 Tbsps finely chopped fresh chives; 2 Tbsps finely chopped fresh tarragon; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 355 milliliters 2% reduced-fat milk; 1 kilograms soft-shell crabs, cleaned; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 Tbsp sugar

Herb-Stuffed Soft-Shell Crabs with Fresh Corn Spoon Bread is a vegetarian recipe with 6 servings. One portion of this dish contains approximately 18g of protein, 52g of fat, and a total of 959 calories. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up chives, salt, salt, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert. It works well as a rather inexpensive main course.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 40

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Oven

To prepare the spoon bread, lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup.

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Bread

All Purpose Flour

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Measuring Cup

Combine flour, cornmeal, and milk in a medium saucepan, stirring with a whisk until smooth. Stir in corn, sugar, and 1 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring often. Reduce heat; simmer 3 minutes or until very thick (mixture will begin to lift up from the bottom of the pot when stirred.)

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Cornmeal

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Corn

Milk

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Whisk

Pot

Remove from heat; stir in 1 tablespoon butter and pepper.

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Butter

Pepper

Spoon the corn mixture into a large bowl; stir in egg yolks.

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Egg Yolk

Corn

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Bowl

Place egg whites in a large bowl, and beat with a mixer at high speed until stiff peaks form. Gently stir one-third of egg white mixture into corn mixture; gently fold in the remaining egg white mixture. Spoon the mixture into a 2-quart baking dish coated with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Egg Whites

Corn

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Baking Pan

Blender

Bowl

Bake at 400 for 30 minutes or until top is browned and center is set.

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Oven

Remove from heat; cool spoon bread on a wire rack 10 minutes.

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Bread

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Wire Rack

Preheat broiler.

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Broiler

To prepare crabs, combine basil and next 5 ingredients (basil through garlic); spread 1 1/2 teaspoons herb mixture undershells of each crab. Rub outside of crabs with the remaining herb mixture. Coat tops of crabs with cooking spray; place crabs on a baking sheet lightly coated with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Garlic