Recipes: Crab and mushroom puffs

Crab and mushroom puffs
Serves/Quantity: Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 225g (8oz) mixed crabmeat
  • 8 Portobello mushrooms, wiped
  • 1 x 15ml spoon (1 tbsp) olive oil
  • salt & black pepper
  • 30g (1oz) butter
  • 30g (1oz) plain flour
  • 200ml (7 fl oz) milk
  • 2 x 15ml spoon (2 tbsp) creme fraiche
  • 1 x 5ml spoon Dijon mustard
  • 4 spring onions, trimmed and chopped
  • 2 eggs, separated

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F, Gas Mark 5
  2. Brush each mushroom with a little olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
  3. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the flour and cook over a gentle heat for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and gradually beat in the milk a little at a time. Return to the heat and bring to the boil, stirring continuously, to give a thick sauce. Remove from the heat.
  4. Stir in the creme fraiche, mustard, crabmeat, spring onions and egg yolks. Season. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and carefully fold into the crab mixture.
  5. Spoon the mixture equally on top of each mushroom and bake for 12-15 minutes until puffed and golden. Serve immediately
 

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