Chunky Potato Crab Soup

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Registered: 02-08-2001
Chunky Potato Crab Soup
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Sun, 02-10-2008 - 4:49pm

The only things I did different were I didn't use quite as many potatoes and substituted real crab for the Louis Kemp imitation crab

Chunky Potato-Crab Chowder

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp butter
1 cup chopped onion
3/4 cup chopped celery
1 garlic clove, minced
3 1/2cups cubed red potatoes (about 1 lb)
3 Tbsp all purpose flour
2 1/2cups 2% reduced fat milk
2 tsp chopped fresh thyme
1/2tsp freshly ground pepper
1/4 tsp grated whole nutmeg
1 (14 3/4 oz) can cream style corn
1 (14 oz) can fat free less sodium chicken broth
8 oz lump crabmeat, shell pieces removed
3 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
1 tsp salt

Directions:

Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium high heat. Add onion, celery, and garlic; sauté 4 minutes. Add potato; sauté 1 minute. Sprinkle with flour; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in milk, thyme, pepper, nutmeg, corn and broth. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring frequently. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes or until potato is tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in crab, parsley and salt; cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

6 servings (serving size 1 ½ cups)

Calories: 265, fat 6.8 g; protein 16.3g; cholesterol 43 mg; calcium 176 mg; sodium 968 mg; fiber 3.1 g; iron 1.5 mg; carbohydrate 36.5 g

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 02-10-2008 - 7:31pm
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing. I'd have made the exact same changes. Can't stand that orange fish they try to pass off as crab. ;-)

       ~~Rhonda~~


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Registered: 08-07-2001
Sun, 02-10-2008 - 9:24pm
That sounds yummy!!!

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