Crab meat and mushrooms in wine sauce
4 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounds | Fresh crab meat |
| ¼ | pounds | Fresh mushrooms, sliced, or |
| 1 large can of mushrooms | ||
| (stems and pieces) | ||
| 2 | tablespoons | Butter (to saute fresh |
| Mushrooms) | ||
| 2 | tablespoons | Butter |
| 2 | tablespoons | Flour |
| ½ | cup | Milk |
| ½ | cup | White wine |
| ½ | teaspoon | Dry mustard |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Dry tarragon |
| Salt to taste | ||
| Pepper to taste | ||
| Hot sauce to taste | ||
| ¾ | cup | Bread crumbs |
Directions
Pull crab meat apart and remove stiff membrances. Saute mushrooms in butter. (If mushrooms not fresh, add later.) Make a cream sauce blending melted butter, flour and milk, wine, mustard, tarragon, salt, pepper and hot sauce. Cook 2 or 3 minutes, then add crab meat and mushrooms. Place in casserole; sprinkle top with bread crumbs and dot with butter. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes uncovered.
Cover before serving. This can also be made with shrimp, or crab meat and shrimp.