Serve this delectable soup with warm dinner rolls and a side salad for a complete meal. When the weather outside is frightful, there’s nothing more comforting than a bowl of homemade soup. This cream of crab soup is the perfect recipe to warm you up on a cold winter’s day. This soup is sure to become a new family favorite, made with fresh or canned crab meat, a creamy base, and plenty of rich flavors. So curl up with a bowl of this delicious soup and enjoy the cozy winter weather. If you can, try to buy fresh crab meat, which will be more expensive than canned meat but taste much better. If fresh crab meat is unavailable, look for canned crab meat labeled as “wild-caught” (meaning caught in the wild rather than farmed), and it will have a more seafood flavor.
Step By Step Instructions
Starting with a cold pan, put the olive oil in a large stock pot and cook the bacon over medium-low heat until it is crispy. Celery: Use lighter green stalks for the best flavor, and use the leaves too. Seafood Stock: You can make your own or buy it in a can. Alternatively, you can use vegetable or chicken stock. Clam Juice: You can find it near the canned seafood section of your grocery store if you live in the US. If you can’t find it where you are, use more seafood stock or omit it. Half and Half: You can use regular or low-fat or substitute with light cream, single cream, whole milk, or whipping cream. Crab: Use cooked crab meat, either fresh or canned. Vinegar: I prefer white wine vinegar, but you can substitute it with sherry vinegar or lemon juice. Parsley: Use fresh parsley or substitute it with other herbs such as thyme or whole bay leaves. Potatoes: Use waxy potatoes, such as Yukon Gold, red or new potatoes. These will hold their shape better during cooking. Garlic: Use fresh garlic for the best flavor. If you need a shortcut, add whole cloves and then remove them before serving. Flour: Use all-purpose or plain flour. Spices: The mustard powder, paprika, nutmeg, and bay leaf can all be replaced with 2 teaspoons of old bay seasoning. If excessive fat is in the pan, remove all but about two tablespoons. Increase the heat to medium, and saute the celery and onion until they are tender in the bacon fat. Add the garlic and stir until fragrant (around 30 seconds). Then add the paprika, dry mustard powder, and flour. Coat the onion mixture well, and cook for another minute, stirring occasionally. Add the stock slowly to the flour and stir until all the flour is incorporated with the stock, and scrape off any browned bits from the bottom of the pan before adding the stock. Stir in the clam juice, then add the half and half, milk or cream. Bring to a boil, and cook, occasionally stirring until thickened, 1 to 2 minutes. Taste for seasoning and add salt as needed. Then add the potatoes, bay leaf, and parsley. Simmer, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Then add the cooked crab meat. Finish with white vinegar, state for seasoning, and add more salt as needed. Serve and enjoy. To freeze: Cool the soup thoroughly before transferring it to an airtight container. Freeze for up to three months. To thaw, leave it in the refrigerator overnight or place the container in a bowl of warm water until it is thawed. Reheat the soup gently on the stovetop before serving. Seafood Chowder: Add more shellfish, like shrimp or scallops, for seafood chowder. Add them raw for the last 5 minutes of cooking time. Roasted Garlic Seafood Chowder: Add one head of mashed roasted garlic cloves in place of the garlic cloves called for in the recipe. Dill Seafood Chowder: Add one tablespoon of fresh dill weed in place of the parsley called for in the recipe. Corn Chowder with Crab: Add one cup of frozen corn kernels in place of the potatoes called for in the recipe. Stir in one (15-ounce) can of crab meat at the end of cooking. Erren’s Kitchen is written and produced for informational intentions only. We are not certified nutritionists, and the nutritional information found on this site has not been assessed or authorized by a nutritionist or the FDA. The nutritional information found in our recipes is offered as an estimate and should not be considered a guarantee or fact. The estimated data is provided as a courtesy and calculated through a third-party online nutritional calculator, spoonacular API. Although we do our best to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures should be considered rough estimates. Many factors, such as brands or products purchased and the nutritional fluctuations that naturally occur in fresh produce, can alter the effectiveness of the nutritional information in any recipe. Furthermore, various online calculators provide different results depending on their particular algorithms and nutrition fact sources. To obtain the most precise nutritional information in a provided recipe, you should calculate the nutritional information with the exact ingredients you are using when preparing the recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.
