RECIPE: Thank you for all the emergency 911 party help and inspiration yesterday! REC: Crab Shooter Duos

[carianna-in-wa]

There was a lot of food here, but these were definitely the hit of the party... with quite a bit of debate over which was the favorite. I don't know if you'd call these soups, because neither of them require any actual cooking. Perfect summer food! The coconut one is a riff on something I found by Bobby Flay and the tomato one is a riff from the Betty Crocker website, of all places.

Crab Shooter Duo

Coconut-Lime and Fresh Peach Crab Shooter

1 ½ c. coconut milk, well-shaken

Juice of 2 limes

4 T. (or more, depending on brand) Habanero Hot Sauce

2 T. honey

1 t. kosher salt

¼ t. freshly ground pepper

¼ c. finely chopped cilantro

¼ c. finely chopped green onion

Small-diced fresh peach or fresh mango

Fresh lump crab meat

Stir together all ingredients except peach and crab meat. Let sit at room temperature at least 15 minutes.

To serve, place a portion of crab into shot glasses, top with a few diced peach pieces, and then add 1 T. coconut sauce over the top.

Fire-Roasted Tomato and Horseradish Crab Shooter

1 can fire-roasted diced tomatoes (I used Hunt’s with garlic)

1/2 c. tomato juice

¼ c. chopped green onion

1 T. cider vinegar

1 T. olive oil

2-3 T creamy horseradish

½ t. kosher salt

½ cucumber, peeled, seeded and small-diced

Fresh lump crab meat

Place all ingredients except cucumber and crab meat into food processor and pulse until blended, but still slightly chunky. Stir in cucumber and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.

To serve, place a portion of crab meat into shot glasses and top with 1 T. of tomato sauce.

 

[karennoca]

What type of shooter glasses did you use?

These sound delicious. Oh, and how many shooters did you make for thirty people?

 

[carianna-in-wa]

I have a set of 225 shot glasses from when I catered... they are very thin-walled

they are round, and are more straight up-and-down instead of tapered like a "normal" shot glass. They work very well for these kinds of things.

I lost track of how many I made. I made 10 at a time, 5 of each and replenished frequently. Maybe I made 70 or 80 so? I still have about 1/2 the crab left and a bit of the tomato-horseradish sauce. I tossed the coconut last night because it sat out so long.

 

[carianna-in-wa]

Just edited the horseradish amount. I had doubled the recipe, but typed it out as a single

and didn't decrease the horseradish. I didn't actually measure it last night, so this is a rough estimate.

 

[mariadnoca]

"I have a set of 225 shot glasses" just warmed my hoarder heart...

I thought I was bad when I bought something like 40 or 50 (who knows!) double shot glasses at Goodwill and snagged 48 free mason jars off Craigslist.

❤

Sounds like everything came out just fabulous!

 

[carianna-in-wa]

I haven't gotten rid of any of my catering stuff, although most of it is in storage

in our garage. I got a smokin' deal on those shot glasses on ebay. smileys/smile.gif

 

[Marg CDN]

That all sounds really creative Carianna. I'll bet your guests were thrilled!

 

[marilynfl]

I just want to say how "impressed" I am that you did this ON THE FLY with GUESTS coming. Bravo!

 

[carianna-in-wa]

Couldn't have pulled it off without Swapper inspiration! I was like, WTH?

 

[elaine]

Sounds so great - what could one use instead of crab? And not lobster either!!

 

[carianna-in-wa]

A steamed mussel would be good, sauce could be drizzled into the shell.

 

[marilynfl]

Being honest here, I'd be a little freaked out grabbing a shot glass with a mussel in it

I can deal with mussels when they're STILL IN THE PRETTY BLACK SHELL, piled in a large white porcelain bowl, smothered in some garlicy, buttery sauce with a hunk of crusty French bread on the side. That's when I feel very cosmopolitan and a little bit continental ordering them.

But already deshelled and nude in a glass? Nah. Too much like Anatomy 101.

 

[traca]

Chopped shrimp.