Helens Crab Stuffed Potatoes Recipes

CRAB-STUFFED POTATOES

Steps:

• Bake potatoes at 425° for 45-55 minutes or until tender. When cool enough to handle, halve potatoes lengthwise. Carefully scoop out pulp into a bowl, leaving a thin shell. Set shells aside. Beat or mash potato pulp with butter, cream, salt and pepper until smooth. Using a fork, stir in onions or chives and cheese. Gently mix in crab. Stuff shells. Sprinkle with paprika. Return to the oven for 15 minutes or until heated through.

ARTICHOKE AND CRAB STUFFED POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Wash and prick the potatoes and bake for 45 - 55 minutes, or until very tender and baked through. Remove from oven and let sit 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place the cream cheese, milk, mayonnaise, green onions, jalapeños and garlic in a mixing bowl and mix with a whip attachment until combined.
• After potatoes have cooled 10 minutes, cut the top off the potato (lengthwise) and scoop out the hot potato with a spoon, leaving a 1/2-inch shell. Add the potato pulp to the mixing bowl and mix with whip attachment until well mixed. Stir in the 3/4 cup parmesan cheese, crab meat and artichokes.
• Scoop the mixture back into the potato shells, piling up and dividing evenly. Sprinkle with extra parmesan for a pretty top.
• Place potatoes on a baking sheet and bake for about 20 - 25 minutes or until golden and heated through.

CRABMEAT STUFFED POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Wash the potatoes well, then pat dry and place in center of oven rack, being sure to leave some space between potatoes for hot air to circulate.
• Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until soft to the touch (when you squeeze the sides in).
• Meanwhile, very coarsely grate the cheese.
• Then, pick over the crabmeat: Spread the crabmeat out on a large, flat cookie sheet then pick up each lump and visually look for thin, transparent pieces of shell.
• Remove the shell fragments, trying not to break up lumps of crabmeat.
• Return crabmeat to refrigerator.
• About 20 minutes before the potatoes are done, set the butter and cream out to get to room temperature.
• When the potatoes are done, remove from oven and let sit 15 minutes until cool enough to handle.
• Turn the potatoes once to let both sides of the skin dry out.
• (Turn the oven to 350 degrees.) With a very sharp bread knife, cut the potatoes in half lengthwise, cutting across the widest part so the potato shells will sit flat.
• Scoop out the potato meat with a soup spoon to within 1/4 inch of the shell, placing the potato meat in the large bowl of an electric mixer.
• Add the butter to the bowl with the potato meat, separating the pieces.
• Beat at low speed (with a paddle attachment, if possible-but beaters will work, also) until the butter is just incorporated.
• With the mixer still on low, add the cream and then the Vegetable Magic and red pepper, beating just until the cream and seasonings are mixed in well, but the potatoes are still quite lumpy.
• You do not want to get to a smooth, whipped potato consistency; there should be lots of lumps throughout the mixture.
• Turn off the mixer and taste for seasoning level-- the mixture will be spicy at this point, but the cheese and crabmeat are both bland, and finished dish will not be spicy.
• Spoon the potato mixture into a very large, shallow mixing bowl (if you use a shallow bowl, you'll be able to fold in the crabmeat more evenly throughout the mixture).
• Using a fork, fold in 5 ounces of the grated cheddar, not trying to make a smooth, even distribution-- you want to have pockets of cheese (they will melt and be fantastic!) scattered throughout the finished stuffed potato.
• Then gently fold in the reserved lump crabmeat, being careful not to break up the lumps, but making sure all of the mixture in the bowl has crabmeat scattered through it.
• Stuff the potato shells until they are just rounded slightly at the top.
• (You will have extra stuffing, which you can bake in ramekins or a small casserole dish.) Place the stuffed potatoes in a baking pan, fitting them close together, then sprinkle the tops with the remaining 6 ounces grated cheddar.
• You can prepare the recipe to this point several hours ahead and refrigerate until ready to bake.
• Place the pan in a 350 degrees oven and bake for 25 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the potato mixture is nice and hot.
• Serve immediately (sprinkling the tops of the potatoes with green onions, if desired), allowing 2 potato halves for an entrée and 1 potato half for an appetizer or side dish.
• The potatoes make a wonderful entree with just a nice crisp garden salad and hot French bread.

CRAB-STUFFED POTATOES

Steps:

• bake potatoes at 425 degrees for 45-50 minutes, or until tender.
• when cool enough to handle, halve the potatoes lengthwise.
• carefully scoop out pulp into a bowl, leaving a thin shell.
• set shells aside.
• beat or mash potatoes with butter, cream, salt and pepper until smooth.
• using a fork, stir in cheese and onions.
• gently mix in crab.
• stuff shells.
• return to oven for 15 minutes or until heated through.

CRAB STUFFED TWICE BAKED POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Prick holes in the potatoes with a fork and place directly on the oven rack. Roast until cooked through, about 45 minutes, depending on the size of the potato.
• While the potatoes are cooking prepare the crab: Add 2 tablespoons of butter to a frying pan. Add the shallots and cook until translucent. Next add the minced garlic and saute in the frying pan to gently brown the shallots and garlic. Add the thyme and crab and cook until heated through. Then set aside.
• Lower the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Once the potatoes are cooked and cool enough to handle cut, off a small portion of the top making an opening in the potato.
• Take a spoon and scoop the pulp into a bowl. Place the potato skins on a cookie sheet and put in a 350 degree F oven for about 5 minutes to dry them out and ensure they will be crispy when done.
• To the potato pulp, add the shallot/crab mixture, remaining butter, cheese and sour cream and mix. Then add parsley, salt and pepper, to taste. Fill the potato shells with the potato/crab mixture. Bake until cheese has melted around 35 to 45 minutes.
• Sprinkle with parsley.