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Crab & Brie Soup

Source of Recipe


Dakota Restaurant






List of Ingredients



• 1/2 stick butter
  
• 8 gumbo crabs (small hard-shell crabs)
  
• 1 medium onion, cut up
  
• 1 medium carrot, cut up
  
• 3 ribs celery, cut up
  
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
  
• 2 bay leaves
  
• 1/4 cup brandy
  
• 1 cup white wine
  
• 1 quart heavy whipping cream
  
• 1/2 cup butter
  
• 3/4 cup flour
  
• 8 ounces Brie cheese, rind removed
  
• 1/4 tsp salt
  
• 1/8 tsp white pepper
  
• Pinch cayenne
  
• 1/2 lb. jumbo lump crabmeat
  






Instructions



1. Heat the butter in a heavy kettle over medium heat. Crack open the crabs with a meat pounder or the side of a heavy cleaver. Add crabs to butter and saute for 5 minutes.
   
   
2. Add the onion, carrot, celery, garlic and bay leaves; continue to cook until the vegetables soften.
   
   
3. Add the brandy. Bring it to a boil, then carefully touch a flame to it. After the flames die down, add the wine and bring that to a boil. After a minute or two, add 2 quarts of water and bring to a simmer. Keep the simmer going over medium-low heat for about 30 minutes.
   
   
4. Strain the soup into another pot and add the cream. Bring it to a simmer.
   
   
5. While waiting on that, heat the butter in a separate saucepan and stir in the flour. Cook, stirring, until the texture changes. Do not brown. Add this near-roux to the soup pot and whisk in.
   
   
6. Slice the Brie into small pieces and add it to the pot. Stir until the cheese melts in completely. Add salt and pepper to taste.
   
   Right before serving, put the lump crabmeat in the bottom of the bowls, and ladle the hot soup over it.
   
   Serves 6 to 8