Asparagus And Crab Ragout Recipe - Cooking Index

Asparagus And Crab Ragout

Type: Vegetables
Courses: Soup, Starters and appetizers
Serves: 2 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 teaspoon  Olive oil
1 tablespoon  Chopped shallots
1/2 cup  Peeled - seeded diced tomato (concasse)
1 teaspoon  Chopped garlic
1/2 lb  Cooked asparagus - cut into 1" pieces on diagonal (1 cup)
1/2 cup  Light fish or chicken stock
1 cup  Lump crabmeat - picked over for shells and cartilage
2 tablespoons  Butter
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
2   Prepared puff pastry shells - baked
2 tablespoons  Chopped parsley - for garnish

Recipe Instructions

Heat oil in a saute pan, add shallots and cook 30 seconds, stirring. Add tomatoes and garlic and cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Add asparagus and stock. Bring to a boil, add crabmeat and stir in butter. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Split open piping hot pastry shells and spoon ragout into bottom half. Set top over on an angle and sprinkle with parsley. This recipe yields 2 appetizer or lunch servings.

Source:
Emeril Lagasse

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