Michele's Crab and Shrimp Imperial recipe

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Ingredients

1 serving cooking spray
2 pounds peeled and deveined extra large shrimp
2 extra large eggs
¾ cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard
3 dashes hot pepper sauce
2 teaspoons seafood seasoning (such as Old Bay®)
1 tablespoon dried tarragon
salt and pepper to taste
2 (6 ounce) cans crabmeat, drained

Nutrition Info

302.8 calories
carbohydrate: 1.3 g
cholesterol: 272 mg
fat: 19.4 g
fiber: 0.2 g
protein: 29.4 g
saturatedFat: 3.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 644.7 mg
sugar: 0.4 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat an 8x8 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.

  2. Place shrimp in the work bowl of a food processor, pulse until shrimp forms a thick paste. Mix eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, hot pepper sauce, seafood seasoning, dried tarragon, and salt and pepper in a large bowl. Stir in shrimp, carefully fold in crab. Spoon into prepared baking dish.

  3. Bake in preheated oven until lightly browned and heated through, about 30 minutes.

Recipe Yield

8 servings

Recipe Note

This is crab imperial with a shrimp paste added. It makes the texture of the dish, more like a spongy crabcake. Every time I make it, people just love it.

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