creamy crab soup

[achookwoman]

60g. butter
1/2 small green pepper (or a well drained 125 tin)
1 medium onion.
3 Tablespoons plain flour
1 1/2 cups of chicken stock
pinch of cayanne
sail and pepper
1Tablespoon of dry sherry
1 cup milk
1 cup cream
2  170g tins of crab.

Melt butter80 for 2 minutes on  
Chop onion and green pepper 10 seconds on speed 5( if using tinned pepper , add after
 onion is cooked)
Cook onion in butter (and pepper if raw) 3 mins. at 100 speed 1
Add flour and cook 4 mins. at 100 ,
Add liquid from the 2 cans of crab, and chicken stock,   3 mins, reverse on varoma speed 2.
Add milk and cream , cook varoma, 4 mins.  
CHECK THICKNESS OF SOUP,  IT SHOULD BE LIKE THICKENED CREAM.
.If not thick enough mix 4 teasp. of cornflour with a little milk and add to mixture in bowl, cook 2 minutes,varoma ,speed 2.
Add crab,  reverse,  varoma 2 mins.

Top with chives to serve,     Makes 1 1/2  Litres.   4-6 serves

Fairly expensive to make but excellent for a dinner party .   I made it tonight to test recipe, DH said the Queen would not be having soup any better than this.

Members' Comments
JD - I made 1/2 quantity which is 2 meals for me.  Only addition was a umami cube which I tend to throw in all soups these days.  It's a nice soup Chookie. This is a very delicate but tasty soup.

[judydawn]

Thanks Chookie.  That last comment by your DH sold me on this one. 

[Thermomixer]

Good work again Chookie - right royal repast.    DH must beloving the TMX adventures too

[judydawn]

I made this yesterday, 1/2 quantity which is 2 meals for me.  Only addition was a umami cube which I tend to throw in all soups these days.  It's a nice soup Chookie.  Whilst I was eating it I thought of a perfect word to describe it but now I've forgotten what that word was    I enjoyed it with some of your Welsh Rarebit.

I've remembered the word - delicate.  This is a very delicate but tasty soup 

[CreamPuff63]

I just saw this recipe JD as I'm researching a recipe to make for the challenge that is not already a favourite (hard). Loved Ral's comment that even the queen wouldn't enjoy better soup  what a sweetheart

[judydawn]

That's exactly what I did with the recipes I made yesterday CP.

[achookwoman]

I personally love this soup.   I always keep a couple of tins of crab in the pantry, so if we have unexpected visitors, I can whip up something nice. 

[Sally906]

Had this soup tonight, in preparation for an upcoming dinner with friend.  We had to had a little more thickening, but came out really well.  This is a very nice soup.

[judydawn]

Welcome to the forum with your first post Sally, Chookie's recipes are great!

[Cornish Cream]

Welcome Sally.Chookie's recipes are terrific.There are plenty more of her recipes to cook so have fun cooking

[achookwoman]

Sally,  glad you enjoyed it.  Thanks for the review.

[cookie1]

Each time I see this I can't help thinking, "first catch your crab."

[judydawn]

I made this today, added some corn kernels and used red capsicum instead of green. Half quantity does 3 meals for me.  I’ve blitzed the remaining soup as I had trouble eating the corn even though I’d chopped it up as much as I could by hand before adding it to the soup. Thanks for reminding me of it Chookie, I had forgotten I’d made it many years ago.

[achookwoman]

Hope you enjoy it Judy. The Green capsicum does taste different, however use what you have.