Spicy crab and wine sauce - great chefs

1 batch

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 eaches Crabs, cleaned, not cooked
2 ounces Butter
2 tablespoons Shallots, minced
2 eaches Thyme, sprigs OR
½ teaspoon Thyme, dried
Salt (to taste)
Pepper (to taste)
¼ teaspoon Pepper, cayenne
½ cup Cream
1 each Bay leaf

Directions

Chop the crabs up in rough pieces and cook them in butter with shallots, thyme and parsley until crabs turn color.

Add wine, salt, pepper, cayenne and cream. Heat to boiling, add the bay leaf, and reduce until thick.

Strain into another pan and reduce again until the consistency of whipping cream.

Source: Great Chefs of New Orleans, Tele-record Productions : Box 71112, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1983 : Chef Chris Kerageorgiou, La Provence Restaurant, New Orleans

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