Spicy Crab Souffle
A spicy crab souffle which is not hard to make. It's just as lovely if you use lobster. A great special occasion dish.
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 1/2 cup (30g) desiccated coconut
- 60g unsalted butter
- 30g celery tops, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 3 tablespoons plain flour
- 1 1/4 cups (300ml) milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 250g crab meat, tinned or fresh
- 6 egg whites, stiffly beaten
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Directions
Preparation:40min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:1hour10min
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Butter a large souffle dish.
- Toast coconut in a small frying pan over low heat until pale golden.
- In a medium frying pan, melt butter over low heat and add the celery tops, garlic, curry powder, thyme, chilli flakes, salt and pepper - cook for 3 minutes. Stir in flour until smooth for about 1 minute. Pour in milk and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil and thickens. Set aside and cool slightly. Whisk the egg yolks one at a time into the sauce. Stir in coconut and crab meat.
- In medium bowl, beat egg whites and lemon juice with an electric mixer until stiff, but not dry. Stir 1/4 of the whites into crab mixture. Quickly and gently fold in the remaining whites. Do not deflate the volume. Transfer mixture to the souffle dish and place it on the bottom shelf of the oven.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until golden, puffed and still moist inside.
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Used different ingredients. Loved it! I cut the recipe in half & I wasn't sure I had enough crab so I added a tin of prawns (rinsed). I also used lime juice instead of lemon. With the exception of the salt, I doubled the spices & increased the coconut a bit. Hubby suggested that, next time, I bake it in individual dishes for a prettier presentation. I had a bottle of sauvignon blanc open so that's what we had but because of the spiciness of the dish, I think a gewurztraminer would make a better pairing. Thansk Claire...this was very good! - 29 Sep 2008
REALLY GOOD!!! I loved it!!! My parents loved it and my boyfriend totally loved it!! - 29 Sep 2008
Really easy, and a crowd pleaser. - 29 Sep 2008