Mexican Crab Soup Recipes

CREAM OF CRAB SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a 3-qt. saucepan; stir in flour, seafood seasoning, salt and curry powder. Cook until thickened and bubbly. Gradually add milk; cook and stir until mixture is hot (do not boil). , Remove cartilage from crab if necessary. Add crab and parsley to soup; cook and stir just until crab is heated. If desired, thin soup with additional milk; garnish with parsley.

SPICY LUMP CRAB SOUP

Steps:

• 1. In large soup pot over medium heat, add olive oil, garlic and onions and saute for about 2 minutes or until translucent. Then add chicken broth, tomatoes and potatoes and let simmer for about 5 - 7 minutes.
• 2. Add corn, red, green and chili peppers and let simmer for about 2 - 3 minutes. Then add Old Bay seasoning and season to taste with salt and pepper if desired.
• 3. Add in crab meat, be careful not to break up the lumps. Let simmer for about 5 minutes.
• 4. Ladle soup in bowls garnish with fresh chopped chives and serve with crackers or your favorite whole grain french bread.

MEXICAN GAZPACHO (COLD SOUP)

Steps:

• Dice cucumbers, onion, tomatoes and avocado. Finely chop the cilantro. Mix all ingredients in a large dish and refrigerate for an hour or until cold. I usually add the avocado in last as it tends to get too mushy if it's sitting in the soup for so long. Serve chilled.
• I also like to make a huge amount of the soup and freeze it. So if you do that, you want to leave the cucumbers, avocado and cilantro as your FRESH ingredients.
• This is a great light soup to have at the end of the day if you're trying to watch your calorie intake later in the day.

CHILAPACHOLE (SPICY TOMATO CRAB SOUP)

Steps:

• Place the onion, tomato, red pepper and chili peppers into a large bowl. Add the oil and toss to coat.
• Heat a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the vegetables and cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic and cook for 2 minutes or until the vegetables are well browned, stirring occasionally. Remove and reserve the chili peppers from the skillet.
• Remove the remaining vegetables to a blender. Add the broth and parsley. Cover and blend for 2 minutes or until the mixture is smooth. Pour the vegetable mixture into a 2-quart saucepan and cook over medium heat until the mixture is hot and bubbling. Stir in the crabmeat and cook for 2 minutes or until the mixture is hot. Season with kosher salt and ground black pepper.
• Mince the reserved chili peppers. Sprinkle the soup with the chili peppers and serve with the lime wedges.

SPICY CRAB SOUP

Steps:

• Cook and clean crabs:
• Bring water to a simmer in pot and add crabs using tongs. Cover pot and cook over high heat until crab shells are bright red, 5 to 6 minutes. Transfer crabs to a shallow baking pan and reserve cooking liquid in pot.
• When crabs are cool enough to handle, break off 16 claws, working over pan to catch juices, and reserve claws, covered and chilled, for garnish (if using Dungeness crabs, reserve 16 hind legs). Still working over pan, pull off aprons (abdomens), legs, and remaining claws from crabs and add to pot, then cut crabs in half, through shell, with kitchen shears (if using Dungeness crabs, pull top shells from bodies and crack front claws with a mallet). Dip crabs into cooking liquid to rinse off mustard (tomalley), then pull apart shells and extract meat and any orange-red roe with your fingers. (There are bits of meat in all the nooks and crannies.) Put meat and roe in a small bowl and chill, covered. Add all shells and any juices from baking pan to cooking liquid in pot.
• Make broth:
• Quarter onion and add 1 quarter to crab cooking liquid along with halved garlic cloves. Boil broth, uncovered, skimming froth frequently, until liquid is reduced to about 8 cups, about 50 minutes. Carefully pour broth through a cheesecloth-lined sieve into a large bowl, pressing on and then discarding solids.
• Make sofrito while broth is reducing:
• Heat a dry well-seasoned cast-iron skillet over moderately high heat until hot, then toast chile 30 seconds on each side and transfer to a blender. Pan-roast unpeeled garlic, turning with tongs, until browned in spots, 3 to 5 minutes. Cool garlic, then peel and add to blender. Pan-roast tomatoes, turning occasionally, until browned in spots, about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, chop remaining onion and add to blender. Cool tomatoes, then core, peel, and quarter and add to blender.Purée mixture until smooth. Force purée through a medium-mesh sieve into a bowl and discard solids.
• Heat oil in a 4-quart heavy pot over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and carefully stir in purée (oil will splatter). Cook, stirring frequently, until thickened, about 15 minutes, to make sofrito. Add epazote and 7 cups strained broth, then simmer soup over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, 30 minutes.
• Add remaining broth to blender along with tortillas, cornstarch, and salt and blend until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Pour mixture through cleaned medium-mesh sieve into a bowl, pressing on and then discarding solids. Stir tortilla purée into soup and simmer, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Remove and discard epazote if fresh. Stir in reserved crabmeat and simmer just until heated through. Serve soup ladled over reserved claws.

MEXICAN SHRIMP AND CRAB CEVICHE

Steps:

• Juice lime or lemon in a medium size glass bowl. Add shrimp and crab and stir.
• Add all other ingredients. Mix. Salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve with tortilla chips or on tostadas.

MEXICAN CRAB SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil over medium heat in a large, heavy soup pot or Dutch oven, and add the onions. Cook, stirring, for five to 10 minutes until tender. Add the garlic and continue to cook for another minute or two, until the garlic begins to color. Add the tomatoes and about 1/2 teaspoon salt, and cook, stirring, for about 15 minutes, until the tomatoes are somewhat cooked down and the mixture smells fragrant.
• Add the potatoes, the winter squash, chiles, olives, capers, bouquet garni and the oregano, and stir together for five minutes. Add 2 quarts water and salt to taste, and bring to a simmer. Simmer 30 minutes, until the potatoes and winter squash are tender. Taste and adjust seasonings, adding more salt and/or garlic if you wish. This soup can be made up to 1 day in advance, following Steps #1 and #2, and kept in refrigerator. Then proceed with Step #3 when ready to reheat and serve.
• Stir in the crab and continue to simmer until crab is heated through, stirring and being careful not to let the soup boil or the cooked crabmeat will become rubbery.
• Just before serving, stir in the chopped cilantro, and serve with lime wedges on the side.

IMITATION CRAB BISQUE

Steps:

• Combine imitation crab, both condensed soups, mayonnaise, onion, bell pepper, celery, seafood seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt, and pepper in a stock pot. Slowly add half-and-half and bring to a simmer. Simmer until hot, about 30 minutes.