Cougar Ranch Crab Rockefeller Food

CRAB ROCKEFELLER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons butter. Stir in flour until smooth; gradually add the milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat; add the cheese and stir until smooth. Add the spinach and crab., Transfer to a greased shallow 1-qt. baking dish. Melt the remaining butter; toss with bread crumbs. Sprinkle over the top. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until bubbly.

ROASTED ROCKFISH ROCKEFELLER

Steps:

• Make Rockefeller mixture: Saute spinach. Mix in cream, ham and Parmesan cheese. Poach the oysters in fish stock, then add to spinach mixture.
• To make the sauce: Reduce fish stock, add garlic, shallots, saffron and Pernod. Season with salt and pepper. Thicken with arrowroot, if needed.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare the fish: Use 2 pieces of fish. Leave 1whole and cut a slit in the middle of the second. Place stuffing on whole piece. Lay the second piece over the stuffing so the stuffing shows through the slit. Bake in oven for about 15 minutes.
• Make the Sweet Potato Napoleon: Deep-fry the 1 sliced sweet potato until crisp. Boil the rest of the potatoes until soft. Put through food mill. Plate by layering the sweet potato chips and pureed potatoes.
• Make the Parisian Vegetables: Make Parisian balls with a melon scoop out of the zucchini, summer squash, and turnip. Blanch and toss in butter.
• Deep-fry the fennel flames.

CRAB ROCKEFELLER STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Clean mushrooms and remove stems.
• Dry and brush tops with olive oil.
• Set aside.
• Melt butter in pan.
• Add onion and sauté until tender, but not browned.
• Add spinach and mix well.
• Add crabmeat, cream, and cheese.
• Mix to blend.
• Stuffed mushrooms to heaping.
• Put in lightly sprayed baking dish; bake at 375 degrees F. for 15-20 minutes or until juices release into dish; brown slightly until broiler, if needed.

PORTOBELLO CRAB ROCKEFELLER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Remove the stems from the portobello mushrooms and chop the stems. Set the whole mushroom caps aside.
• In a medium heated frying pan add olive oil, onion, garlic, and mushroom stems. Saute until soft, about 3 minutes. Deglaze pan with white wine.
• Pour in half-and-half and mix well. Add chopped spinach and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Shake in grated Parmesan and breadcrumbs. Sauce will thicken when heated through, another few minutes. Remove from heat.
• On a baking sheet, or large pan with a grate, arrange mushrooms, cavity-side up. Spoon in enough spinach mixture to fill the portobello mushroom cap. Stack on a couple spoonfuls of crab. Top with mozzarella cheese. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, checking occasionally to make sure the cheese doesn't burn. Remove mushrooms from the oven and serve warm.

RANCH OYSTER ROCKEFELLER DIP

Steps:

• Drain all of the liquid from the spinach.
• Over medium flame, slowly brown bacon to render all of the fat, keeping fat in pan.
• Add the onions, butter, salt and pepper, and chipotle powder. Saute slowly until onions are lightly caramelized.
• Add oysters with juice and simmer until juice is fully reduced. Stir often to break oysters into small pieces.
• Add spinach and stir for about 1 minute to fully incorporate the seasoning.
• Add anisette, heavy cream, cream cheese, and Parmesan cheese. Simmer several minutes until thickened. Remove from heat, cool, and refrigerate for later use.
• To serve, heat to a simmer and serve warm in a chafing dish in a dip bowl.

CRAB ROCKEFELLER

Steps:

• 1. In a frying pan over medium-high heat melt butter and sauté celery, green onions and parsley until just tender, 3-5 minutes
• 2. Reduce to medium-low, stir in Worcestershire and Tobasco cooking for about 10 minutes to blend flavors.
• 3. Add liqueur and bread crumbs and cook for 5 minutes longer to blend.
• 4. Season to taste with salt and pepper, transfer to bowl and refrigerate until set but not hard, approximately 1 hour.
• 5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly butter 6 shallow remekins or small baking dishes and divide the crabmeat among them reserving 6 of the largest pieces for garnish.
• 6. Remove sauce from refrigerator. Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat sauce until it is lighter in texture and aerated, about 2 minutes.
• 7. Spoon 3-4 tablespoons of sauce over crabmeat and garnish each with piece of crabmeat.

COUGAR RANCH CRAB ROCKEFELLER

Steps:

• Squeeze as much water as possible out of the chopped spinach and place in a 12-inch Dutch oven. Thin the soup in a bowl with the milk, fold in the grated cheese, and set aside. In a smaller DO or skillet melt the butter over low heat and add the broken bread broken. Fry for a couple of minutes until the bread bits have soaked up all the butter. Place the crab meat over the bed of spinach, then pour the cheese and soup mixture over the top. Sprinkle the bread bits over the top and season with black pepper and paprika. Bake with 6-8 briquets underneath and 18-20 on top for about forty minutes. Serve with a green salad and crusty sourdough bread.