Asparagus Crab Pilaf
From c2max 16 years ago
- 40 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Eating Well had an article on Rice Farmers. This is a slightly amended version of a dish they featured. Just add a fresh green salad and iced tea (or crisp pinot grigio) and you're in foodie heaven.
Ingredients
- 2 sm leeks or 1 lg leek, white & pale green parts only, cut in half, rinsed well and sliced into thin slices (rinse again if they’re extremely gritty) shopping list
- 1 TB butter shopping list
- 2 shallots, minced shopping list
- 1 ½ C brown basmati rice, rinsed shopping list
- ¼ tsp salt shopping list
- ¼ tsp fresh ground pepper shopping list
- 3 C clam juice, seafood broth or vegetable broth shopping list
- 1 LB fresh asparagus, trimmed, cut on angle into 1” pieces shopping list
- 1 LB lump crab meat (I use king crab leg meat and it works just fine!) shopping list
- 2 TB minced fresh tarragon or dill (depends on your taste preference) shopping list
- 1 lemon, cut into wedges to serve with pilaf shopping list
How to make it
- -Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- -Melt butter in large oven-proof skillet (or you can use a decorative oven-to-table dish). Add leeks, and shallots sauté, stirring often, until softened – about 4-5 minutes.
- -Add rice, stirring frequently until the grains become well-coated and translucent – approximately 1-2 minutes.
- -Pour in broth and bring to simmer, stirring up any browned bits from pan. Cover pan (foil tightly if you don’t have a lid) and put in the oven. Bake 30-40 minutes. (check at 30)
- -Remove pan from oven, and evenly distribute the crab and asparagus over the top of the rice, replace the cover and continue baking the rice until the rice and asparagus are tender – about 15 minutes.
- -Remove pan from oven, uncover, stir in your tarragon (or dill) and fluff the pilaf. Serve with lemon wedges.
- Nutrition:
- 233 calories
- 4g fat (1g sat, .8g mono)
- 45mg cholesterol
- 3.5g fiber
- 750mg sodium
- 533mg potassium
- 18g protein
- Bonus nutrition: Vitamin A (27% daily value), Vitamin B12 (144% dv) (Iron (25% dv), vitamin C (33% dv)
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This sounds very tasty. Good post!
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Very nice.
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