Crab Puffs

 

This Crab Puff recipe is simple and easy to do.  We like to eat these as a snack, or as an appetizer.    Delicious crab meat flavored with cream cheese, sour cream, a hint of lemon, and Worcestershire, set inside a puff pastry.  We often use imitation crab to make ours because the cost of real crab is too expensive for our budget.

Ingredients

1 (8oz. ) pkg cream cheese, room temperature
1 Tbs. sour cream
1 (12 oz.) can crab meat, drained
1 onion, minced
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 tsp. lemon zest (optional)
2 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire
salt and pepper to taste
flour for dusting
1 egg
2 tsp. water
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed

Directions

Preheat oven to 400°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 

In a bowl, combine cream cheese, sour cream, crab meat, onion, garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, and Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt and pepper to taste.  Mix thoroughly.

In a small bowl, combine egg and water.  Beat the egg until it is frothy. Set aside.

Lightly flour your work surface.  Roll out the pastry into a 12-inch square.  Cut the square into 16 equal, smaller squares.

Place 2 tablespoons of the crab filling in the middle of one of the puff pastry squares. Fold the dough over on each side of the square to create a raised, open cup.

Brush the pastry with the egg and water mixture.  Place the puff pastry on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining puff pastry squares and crab filling.

Bake for 20 minutes until puffed and golden.

Serve and enjoy.

Notes

You can also put the puff pastry squares in tiny muffin tins. this will form the square into the right shape.