Best 20 Crab Imperial Recipes

CRAB IMPERIAL II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, combine crab meat, mayonnaise, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, Old Bay Seasoning, salt, cayenne pepper, dry mustard, and beaten egg.. Mix thoroughly.
• In an 8" pie dish, spread mixture and lightly coat the entire dish with bread crumbs. Then sprinkle the top with paprika. Dot the dish with the butter.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes.

CRAB IMPERIAL (BALTIMORE STYLE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
• Melt butter in a heavy small saucepot over medium heat. Add shallot and stir until very lightly browned, about 5 to 8 minutes.
• Blend in flour, white pepper and mace and stir 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add half-and-half, egg yolks, dry mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and sherry and cook until thick and smooth, about 3 to 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in mayonnaise, lemon juice and salt, and gently fold crabmeat into sauce, being careful not to break up chunks.
• Fill either shells, oven-proof shells, ramekins, or small oven-proof bowls.
• Sprinkle tops with paprika.
• Place onto a cookie sheet and bake until mixture is bubbling, about 12 to 15 minutes, and serve immediately.

CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• Saute green pepper in butter until translucent, but not brown.
• Add to crabmeat, salt and pepper. Stir in mustard, mayonnaise and Worcestershire sauce. Put in buttered casserole. Top with bread crumbs, a few pats of butter, and sprinkle with crab boil seasoning. Bake for 25 minutes in a preheated 375 degree F. oven.

CRAB IMPERIAL CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Cook pasta according to package directions. , Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute mushrooms in butter until tender. Stir in flour, pepper and salt until blended; gradually add milk. Bring to a boil. Cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in crab and soup until blended., Drain pasta. Add crab mixture; toss to coat. Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking dish; sprinkle with cracker crumbs. , Bake, uncovered, 25-30 minutes or until bubbly.

EASTERN SHORE CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Lightly coat 6 large scallop shellswith nonstick cooking spray or, if you prefer, lightly coat a 6-cup au gratin pan or shallow casserole; set aside. Place the crab in a medium-size mixing bowl and set aside also.
• 2. Tear the bread into small chunks, letting them drop into a mini food processor fitted with the metal chopping blade. Using 3 to 4 brisk pulses, reduce to moderately coarse crumbs. Drizzle the melted butter over all and pulse 2 to 3 times to incorporate. The crumbs should now be moderately fine. Tip onto a piece of wax paper and reserve.
• 3. Add the parsley, salt, black pepper, and cayenne to the processor (no need to wash the bowl or blade), and pulse briskly 3 to 5 times until the parsley is coarsely chopped.
• 4. Add the mayonnaise and mustard and churn until smooth, about 5 seconds. Scoop on top of the crab and toss lightly to mix.
• 5. Mound the crab mixture in the scallop shells or spread evenly in the augratin dish, and scatter the buttered crumbs on top.
• 6. Bake uncovered on the middle oven rack until bubbling and touched with brown, 12 to 15 minutes.
• 7. Serve at once, accompanying with a tartly dressed salad of greens. Roasted asparagus spears also make a delicious accompaniment.

MICHELE'S CRAB AND SHRIMP IMPERIAL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat an 8x8 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
• Place shrimp in the work bowl of a food processor; pulse until shrimp forms a thick paste. Mix eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, hot pepper sauce, seafood seasoning, dried tarragon, and salt and pepper in a large bowl. Stir in shrimp; carefully fold in crab. Spoon into prepared baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until lightly browned and heated through, about 30 minutes.

CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• Gently go through the lump crab meat for any shell fragments. Set crab meat aside.
• Mix mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, salt and egg together until well blended.
• Fold in the sauteed peppers and drained pimentos.
• Very carefully, fold in the crab meat lumps until coated with mayonnaise mixture.
• Place in buttered casserole dish.
• Casserole Topping:.
• In small bowl, mix together the egg yolk and the mayonnaise.
• Now spoon on top of the casserole filled with crab mixture.
• Sprinkle the Old Bay seasoning on top.
• Bake 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until browned. May serve with lemon wedges.

" PHILLIPS CRAB HOUSE" CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix all ingredients, except crab meat.
• Add crab meat and turn lightly so as not to break up the lumps.
• Put in a buttered 2 quart casserole or fill 8 buttered individual baking dishes (shells) and top with cracer crumbs.
• Cover with melted butter. Sprinkle with paprika.
• Bake at 350°F for 15-20 minutes until bubbly and brown.
• Note: If desired, top with grated cheese last 5 minutes of baking.

CRAB IMPERIAL BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• Butter 8 individual custard dishes or ramekins.
• Set aside crabmeat. Combine next 10 ingredients (through mayonnaise)in medium bowl. Stir until well blended. Fold in crabmeat.
• Stir 6 tablespoons melted butter and bread crumbs together in small bowl.
• Spoon crab mixture into individual dishes. Top each with buttered crumbs. Sprinkle with small amount of paprika. Bake 12-15 minutes until golden brown and bubbly.

PORTABELLA MUSHROOMS TOPPED WITH CRAB IMPERIAL A LA JOHN SHIELDS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• SAUTE MUSHROOMS:.
• Melt the butter in a skillet large enough to hold your mushrooms at one time. Saute the mushroom caps for 5 minutes, or until barely tender.
• Pour in the sherry, turn up the heat, and reduce the liquid by half.
• Remove from the heat and let cool.
• Meanwhile line a baking/broiling tray with aluminum foil. Place the mushroom caps on the tray, reserving the butter/sherry liquid in the skillet.
• MAKE CRAB MIXTURE:.
• Saute the bell peppers and mushrooms in the reserved butter/sherry liquid until soft. Set aside.
• Combine the mayonnaise, mustard, Worcestershire, Tabasco, capers, pepper, and Chesapeake seasoning in a small bowl and mix well. Add the sauteed peppers and mushrooms.
• Place the crabmeat in a mixing bowl and pour the seasoned mayonnaise mixture over it. Toss gently.
• Spoon the crabmeat mixture on top of the mushroom caps (already on the aluminum-foil-lined trays).
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 to 25 minutes.
• MAKE IMPERIAL TOPPING:.
• Meanwhile, combine all Imperial Topping ingredients in a small bowl and mix well.
• Preheat the broiler.
• Spoon the topping evenly over each mound of crabmeat.
• Broil for 1 to 2 minutes, or until nicely browned. (If broiler is unavailable, brown the top in the oven. It will take a bit longer.).
• Serve immediately. Serves 4.

CRAB IMPERIAL I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, combine the crabmeat, bell pepper, pimento, mayonnaise, egg, Worcestershire sauce, salt, mustard powder and red pepper sauce. Mix well and spoon into a shallow 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes.

BEST CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• Melt butter and add flour, salt, pepper and mustard over medium heat.
• Heat and stir until smooth and bubbly.
• Slowly add half and half and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat and add green pepper and worchestershire.
• Fold in crabmeat and pour into 8" x 8" baking dish.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.

CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 400°. Heat 5 tbsp. butter in a 2-qt. saucepan over medium-high heat. Add flour, and cook, stirring, until smooth, about 2 minutes. Whisk in cream, and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium, and cook, stirring, until thickened, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in crabmeat, half the bread crumbs, bell pepper, onion, half the parsley, sherry, juice, Worcestershire, half the paprika, mustard, cayenne, and salt and pepper. Divide mixture evenly among 6 shallow 6-oz. ramekins; place ramekins on a baking sheet and set aside. 2. In a small bowl, mix remaining butter, bread crumbs, and paprika until evenly combined; sprinkle seasoned bread crumbs evenly over each ramekin. Bake until lightly browned and bubbling in the center, about 20 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining parsley and serve hot with toast on the side.

CRAB IMPERIAL STUFFED PORTOBELLOS

Steps:

• 1. Place cookie sheet or glass casserole dish in oven and preheat to 400
• 2. Wipe any loose dirt off of mushroom caps with a dry paper towel. Scrape gills off underside with the edge of a spoon. And cut stem off at base.
• 3. Places slice of cheese on each mushroom cap
• 4. Pick through crab meat to make sure there's no shells
• 5. Chefs Note Start with 1 tbsp of mayonnaise and add more if needed. We're just looking to bind the crab meat. If you feel that it's to moist just add another sprinkle of bread crumbs
• 6. Add remaining ingredients ( except paprika ) and mix into crab meat
• 7. Divide mixture and scoop into mushroom caps, leveling and spreading evenly. Take a small scoop of mayonnaise and thinly spread across the top of crab meat to seal
• 8. Sprinkle top with paprika
• 9. Place mushrooms on preheated cookie sheet, or glass casserole dish put in oven and bake for 20 minutes

CRAB IMPERIAL RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine cream cheese, mayonnaise, heavy cream, and egg. Carefully mix until combined (I used my mini-food processor). Add the crab meat, lemon, Old Bay, and salt. Toss gently to combine. Spoon mixture into 4 individual ramekins or another small baking dish, and place on baking sheet. Top with a bit of the cheddar cheese. Bake for about 20 minutes, until everything is starting to brown and bubble. Garnish with parsley and serve with lemon wedges on the side.

SEAVIEW CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• In skillet over medium heat, saute the peppers in the butter until soft. Allow to cool.
• In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients except the crab meat together.
• Gently fold in crab meat, trying to keep the chunks from breaking up. Do not over mix.
• Spoon evenly into 6 buttered scallop shells or individual casserole dishes. Sprinkle lightly with paprika (I use Old Bay) Even though it's not in the original recipe, I always put an additional tiny pat of butter on top of each one before I bake them. You just can't have too much butter when you're eating this!
• Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes. Serve garnished with lemon wedges.

OLNEY INN IMPERIAL CRAB

Steps:

• Place crabmeat in large bowl, after removal of cartilage and shell.
• Mix mayonnaise, pimento, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and Tabasco together.
• Pour over crabmeat and toss GENTLY, not to break lumps.
• Divide crabmeat between 8 shell-shaped baking dishes.
• Top each shell with 1 tablespoon mayonnaise.
• Sprinkle with paprika.
• Place baking shells on shallow baking pan (jelly roll type).
• Bake at 375°F for 20 minutes.
• Garnish with sprig of parsley, or cross 2 strips of pimento.

FLORIDA BLUE CRAB IMPERIAL RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Combine mayonnaise, minced onion, chopped pimento, capers Worcestershire sauce and first six ingredients in a large bowl. Gently fold in crab meat. Put crab mixture in an ovenproof casserole; top with bread crumbs and sprinkle with paprika. Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes or until bubbling. Serve at once.

CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• 1. Mix all ingredients together with a small amount of cream.
• 2. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a casserole dish. Add crab mixture and bake at 350 degrees F for 25 minutes.

EXCELLENT CRAB IMPERIAL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease 6 individual baking dishes.
• Bring sherry to boil in a medium saucepan, and stir in shallots, green bell pepper, mushrooms, and pimento. Over medium heat, cook, stirring occasionally, until only a small amount of liquid remains.
• In a small saucepan over low heat, whisk together heavy cream and egg yolk for about 3 minutes. Stir into the shallot mixture. Mix in dry mustard.
• Remove the mixture from heat, and stir in the crab. Cool, stir in the mayonnaise, then scoop into the prepared dishes. Top with Gruyere cheese.
• Bake 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until lightly browned.