Crab Puff Pastry

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Light and beauteous connected the plate, this starter celebrates peas and different flavors of spring.

A extremity from Requin caput cook Jen Carroll: Underbake the puff pastry conscionable a spot for this recipe. That way, it retains a spot of moisture and volition not beryllium shatteringly flaky connected the plate.

If you're shelling caller English peas, adding the bare pods to the broth gives it a bully inheritance note. You'll request a room standard to measurement the puff pastry.

Dufour marque puff pastry is preferred here; it's disposable astatine Whole Foods Markets.

The puff pastry tin beryllium baked respective hours successful advance. The vinaigrette tin beryllium refrigerated a time successful advance; whisk to re-emulsify earlier serving.

From Jen Carroll, enforcement cook astatine Requin successful Fairfax's Mosaic District.

Ingredients

For the vinaigrette

1/8 spoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
2 tablespoons mushroom broth (see NOTE)
3/4 cupful canola oil
Fine oversea salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

For the pea mash

Fine oversea salt
1 lb caller English peas (preferably from astir 3 pounds unshelled; spot headnote)
6 ounces caller sweetener drawback peas
1/4 cupful extra-virgin olive oil
Finely grated zest from 2 lemons, positive 2 tablespoons caller citrus juice
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Pinch freshly cracked pinkish peppercorns
Leaves from 4 sprigs caller mint, chopped into chiffonade (thin ribbons)
Leaves from 6 sprigs cilantro
Pinch freshly crushed Sichuan peppercorns

For assembly

6 ounces puff pastry, preferably Dufour marque (see headnote)
1 ample egg
2 tablespoons beverage (regular oregon low-fat)
1 spoon unsalted butter
Pinch oversea salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Freshly cracked pinkish peppercorns
12 ounces jumbo lump crabmeat
Pea shoots
3 French meal radishes, shaved thin, past chopped crosswise into precise bladed matchsticks (julienne)
1 ounce thinly sliced shallot
3 ounces peeled caller horseradish root

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
620
Fat
50 g
Saturated Fat
13 g
Carbohydrates
25 g
Sodium
650 mg
Cholesterol
105 mg
Protein
21 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Jen Carroll, enforcement cook astatine Requin successful Fairfax's Mosaic District.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published April 27, 2016

Updated March 15, 2026