Macaroni and Brie with Crab
- nonstick cooking spray
- 1 pound medium shell pasta
- 5 tablespoons butter
- 1 medium sweet onion (such as Vidalia or Maui), halved and thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon
- 3 cups condensed milk
- 1 pound Brie cheese, trimmed, cut into small wedges, and chopped (reserve 8 small wedges for topping)
- 12 ounces fresh cooked crabmeat or canned lump crabmeat, drained, flaked, and cartilage removed
- 3 slices stale or toasted white bread, torn apart into pieces
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Lightly coat eight 4- to 6-ounce individual baking dishes with cooking spray; set aside.
- In a Dutch oven, cook pasta according to the package directions; drain.
- Return pasta to Dutch oven.
- Meanwhile, in a large skillet, melt butter over medium-low heat.
- Add onion and cook about 15 minutes or until tender and golden brown, stirring occasionally.
- Add flour, salt, and pepper; cook and stir about 1 minute or unitl combined.
- Add milk all at once.
- Cook and stir until slightly thickened and bubbly.
- Gradually add the chopped Brie cheese; cook and stir over medium-low heat until cheese is melted.
- Stir cheese mixture into cooked pasta.
- Fold in crab.
- Transfer to prepared baking dish.
- Place bread pieces in a food processor; cover and process until in coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle crumbs over pasta mixture.
- Bake, uncovered, for 20 to 25 minutes or until heated through and crumbs are golden brown.
- For the last 5 minutes of baking, top each dish with one of the reserved small Brie wedges.
- Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
nonstick cooking spray, shell pasta, butter, sweet onion, flour, salt, condensed milk, cheese, crabmeat, stale
Taken from www.foodrepublic.com/recipes/macaroni-and-brie-with-crab-recipe/ (may not work)