New Orleans (nawlins) Style Crab Bisque

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 pieces bacon
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/2 green bell pepper
• 1 large tomato
• 1/2 medium yellow onion
• 2 celery ribs
• 2 carrots
• 1 1/2 quarts heavy whipping cream
• 16 ounces lump crabmeat
• 16 ounces frozen corn
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon of zatarains crab boil

Recipe

• 1 cook bacon is a large frying pan with a little oil on low to get the grease out of the bacon.
• 2 chop pepper, tomato, onion, celery and carrots, then add to the bacon in the frying pan. let simmer for about 15-20 minutes on medium low heat.
• 3 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 4 in a large glass bowl add cream (you can add more or less if you like your bisque thicker or thinner then the recipe calls for), add crab meat, and corn(still frozen).
• 5 put a strainer over top of a small bowl. take your frying pan with the vegetables and bacon and strain the grease from them into the bowl. add 3 heaping tablespoons of corn starch to the grease and stir. after blended well add 1 tablespoon of zatarains crab boil to the grease/cornstarch mixture. (you can add more crab boil if you like yours spicier). stir the crab boil into the mixture.
• 6 add grease/cornstarch/crab boil mixture to the bowl with the crab, cream, and corn. stir well.
• 7 cover the bowl with foil and bake on 325 degrees for 45 minutes. stir the mixture every 15 minutes, and remove the foil during the last 10 minutes of cooking.
• 8 optional garnish: sprinkle with pepper and add a little parsley.