Crabmeat Soup

This soup screams New Orleans. When you make the soup don’t cut corners. Use the real stuff. Butter, lump crab meat. I would like to say it’s health, but is is a New Orleans created dish, so let’s leave it at it is OSoo Good.

[ingredients title=”Ingredients”]

• 1 stick of butter
• 1/2 cup shallots chopped
• 1/2 cup parsley chopped
• 2 tbsp flour
• 2 cans cream of mushroom soup
• 2 soups cans of milk
• 1 pint half and half
• 1/2 cup grated Swiss cheese
• 1 tbsp sherry
• 1/2 cap full liquid crab boil
• 1lb crabmeat

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[directions title=”Directions”]

1. Saute shallots and parsley in butter
2. Stir in flour, soup and milk
3. Add half and half, cheese and stir until melted
4. Add sherry, crab boil and crabmeat.
5. Salt and red pepper to taste
6. Simmer 30 minutes

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