Marks Stuffed Artichokes Recipe

How to make it

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• Cut the stems off of the artichokes so they stand upright by themselves. Clip1/4 inch from each leaf of the artichokes.
• Finally, cut approximately 1/2 inch off the top of the artichokes
• Now the two artichokes should appear like the ones in the picture on the left.
• Now we are going to boil the artichoke.
• You want to place both artichokes in a pot of water with 4 tbsp of salt.
• Make sure you use a pot that's deep enough to keep the artichoke submerged in the water (as seen in the picture).
• You want to boil the artichokes for 30 to 45 minutes.
• Make sure not to over-cook the artichokes (if this happens the leaves will fall off when stuffing).
• A good way to tell when they are done is to pull off a leaf from the artichoke.
• The leaf should come off easily but not fall off.
• Once you have the leaf off take the back end of a butter knife and try to scrape off the meat from the artichoke (the meat is the light colored part of the leaf that attaches it to the artichoke approximately 1/4h from the bottom of the leaf).
• If it scrapes off easily the artichoke is done. Remove the artichokes from the pot and set aside.
• Put the two eggs, 1/2tsp of water
• 1 lb lump crab meat into a blender.
• Puree to form a paste as shown in the white bowl in the picture.
• On a chopping board, mince the shrimp.
• You do not want to cut the shrimp up too small, but just small enough so as not to have a lumpy stuffing mixture.
• Take 1 stick butter, 1 clove minced garlic, ½ small onion minced, 1 tbsp salt, and 1 tbsp black pepper (the cayenne will give it a nice color for you Cajuns out there) .
• Simmer in a pan on low heat until the garlic and onion has softened. Add your lump crab paste.
• Stir continuously so as not to glaze the crab meat.
• Add 1 cup Italian bread crumbs and the minced shrimp.
• Continue to cook until the shrimp turns a red.
• Mix ½ cup mozzarella cheese and cook until the cheese has melted. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Now for the tedious part!
• Begin stuffing each leaf with stuffing mixture working from the inside out in a circular pattern.
• You don't have to stuff the very center of the artichoke.
• Once the artichoke is stuffed, it should look like the one shown in the picture.
• Place it in a baking pan and bake in the oven at 450 ° for ten minutes or until stuffing is golden brown.
• Once golden brown take your remaining mozzarella cheese and sprinkle generously on top.
• Bake for another minute or two until cheese has melted.
• Remove from oven and serve.
• Eating instructions pull leaves off from outside working in holding top of leaf with fingers place into mouth bite down on leaf scraping both stuffing and leaf meat.
• Enjoy!