A great Soul Food recipe for California Gumbo.
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Crab Rice
Here’s a great Soul Food Recipe for Crab Rice.
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Deviled Crab Eggs
Ingredients: eggs, backfin or lump crab meat scallions, mayo cayenne pepper Instructions: Boil eggs and cut in half lengthwise. Remove the egg yolks. Mix egg yolk, crab meat, scallions, mayonnaise, cayenne pepper. Chop up real fine. Other seasonings can be added to taste, i.e. dry mustard. Place the mixture into the boiled egg whites.
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Josie’s New Year Blackeyed Pea Gumbo
Ingredients: 1 package of blackeyed peas 2 pounds crab legs 2 pounds shrimp 2 pounds chicken wings 2 pounds beef sausage 1 ham shank Instructions: Soak peas over night beginning New Years eve. On New Years Day fill a large pot half full of cold water and add peas. Cook for approximately 4 hours on medium heat. Add all other ingredients and cook on low/medium another hour. You may add salt and pepper to taste. Note: Served best with some fresh cracklin cornbread.
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Crab Cakes
Ingredients: 1 can Crab Meat (backfin meat works better) 2-3 tablespoons Old Bay® Seasoning 2 tablespoons bread crumbs 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 teaspoon mustard 1 extra large egg (or 2 small eggs) pinch of parsley flakes a little diced green pepper (optional) salt pepper soul food seasoning hot sauce (optional) Instructions: Pick crab shells out of the crab meat. Add all ingredients in a bowl, adding salt, pepper, soul food seasoning and hot sauce as desired. Stir all ingredients together. Divide the mixture into small patties, each about half the size of a hamburger patty. Drop the patties into hot grease and allow to cook until brown on one side then turn over and brown the other. Fry similar to the way Fried Chicken is prepared. Remove from grease and lay the patties on paper towels to absorb the grease.
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Cyn’s Crabmeat Quiche
Ingredients: 1 lb. blackfin crabmeat 2-3 large eggs 1 teaspoon water 1/4 cup whipping cream 1/4 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning 1/4 teaspoon white pepper 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup onion (chopped) 1 teaspoon garlic (minced) 1/2 cup red bell pepper 1 cup grated cheese (combine white and and sharp)* (reserve leftover cheese) 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper (optional) 2 frozen 9″ pie shells or make your own *Use reserve grated cheese for top of quiche Instructions: Preheat oven to 350. Prick pie shells all over with a fork; bake for 10 mins. Remove from oven and set aside. Let cool. Turn oven down to 325. Mix chopped ingredients and place in each pie shell. Whisk eggs until fluffy; combine milk, cream and seasoning together; add to egg mixture, a little at a time. Whisking after each addition. Pour over ingredients in shells and bake for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out the center clean. Remove from oven and let stand 15 minutes before serving. Serving suggestion: Serve with a green toss salad. Enjoy!
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Potato and Crabmeat Casserole
Ingredients: 5 medium Potatoes-sliced thinly imitation crabmeat-large package 3 cups shredded cheddar cheese 1 carton heavy whipping cream salt, pepper, nutmeg Instructions: Layer the first three ingredients beginning with the potatoes, then crab meat, then cheese in a large casserole dish, sprinkling a small amount of salt and pepper on each layer of potatoes. Make about 3 layers of each or layer until the first 3 ingredients are gone. Sprinkle top layer with a dash of nutmeg. Pour the heavy cream on, making sure it covers all the layers (you may have to use 2 cartons). Bake covered for 1 hour or until potatoes are tender in a 350 degree-F oven.
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Stuffed Shrimp
Ingredients: 1/2 cup cooking oil 1 pound raw shrimp – chopped salt and pepper to taste 2 cups day old bread,torn up 1 pound white lump crabmeat (preferably back-fin crabmeat) 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 2 eggs, beaten lightly 4 pound large shrimp – jumbo sized onions – add to taste celery – add to taste chopped bell peppers – add to taste 2 cloves garlic – minced Instructions: Chop onions, pepper, celery, and garlic. Sauté in oil until tender. Add chopped raw shrimp, salt and pepper. Cook until the shrimp are done. Toast the day old bread and soak in water to moisten. Squeeze out water and add bread to mixture, a little at a time, mixing well. Add crabmeat and parsley. Let cook for 5 minutes. Set aside to cool. Add raw egg. While the mixture is cooling, peel the shrimp, leaving on the tail shell. Take a small sharp knife and split the shrimp down the back, making sure not to cut completely through the shrimp. Clean all waste material from the inside of the shrimp. Fill the backs of the shrimp with dressing and freeze at this point to ensure the dressing holds together. When ready to cook, dip shrimp in flour, then in beaten egg and milk, and then in flour again. Fry in deep hot oil at 350 degrees. Wait till they all have turned brown prior to removing from oil.
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Baked Stuffed Flounder
Ingredients: 1/2 cup chopped celery 1/2 cup chopped green onions with tops 1 glove garlic – minced 8 tablespoons butter 1 cup bread crumbs 4 tablespoons lemon juice 1/2 pound boiled shrimp – chopped 1/2 pound lump crabmeat 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 1 egg – slightly beaten black pepper or cayenne (or both) salt to taste 4 flounders, medium size Instructions: Sauté celery, onions and garlic in melted butter over low heat. Add bread crumbs, crab, shrimp, parsley and egg and mix well. Season with salt and pepper. Split the thick side of the flounder lengthwise and widthwise, loosen the meat from the bone of the fish to form a pocket for stuffing. Brush well melted butter and lemon juice. Salt, pepper and stuff the pocket. Place in a pan with enough water to cover the bottom of the pan. Broil 3″ from heat until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Baste frequently with the liquid in the pan.
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Stuffed Pork Chops
Ingredients: 8 pork chops 3 cups bread cubes 1/4 cup diced celery – sautéed lightly 1 cup chopped oysters 1/2 cup oysters liquor 1 cup diced onions 1 cup crabmeat 2 eggs salt and pepper to taste Instructions: Combine all dry ingredients with crabmeat, oysters and eggs. Mix as you would any bread stuffing. Place about 1 cup of stuffing between 2 pork chops and bake in a greased baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Serve with a brown sauce.
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