Crab And Corn Soup

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon crab boil seasoning
• 1 large dungeness crab, cooked, broken into pieces
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 cups milk
• 30 ounces creamed corn
• 1 cup green onion, chopped
• 1/2 lb lump crabmeat, drained

Recipe

• 1 bring water and crab boil seasoning to boil in large saucepan.
• 2 add dungeness crab; cook 5 minutes.
• 3 drain, reserving cooking liquid.
• 4 remove crabmeat from shells.
• 5 cover and refrigerate crabmeat.
• 6 melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat.
• 7 add flour and stir 2 minutes.
• 8 gradually stir in 2 cups milk.
• 9 simmer until thickened, stirring frequently, about 3 minutes.
• 10 stir in reserved crab cooking liquid, corn and green onions.
• 11 simmer 10 minutes.
• 12 season with salt and pepper.
• 13 (soup can be prepared 1 day ahead. cover and refrigerate. bring soup to simmer before continuing, thinning with more milk, if desired).
• 14 stir dungeness crabmeat and lump crabmeat into soup.
• 15 simmer until heated through.
• 16 ladle soup into bowls.