Crab Melts
By Bill Dwyer
Melts are open-face sandwiches, with melted cheese as the common denominator. They are usually made with a meat or seafood salad mixed with cheese. Here is my version of a favourite of ours – the crab melt.
I don’t follow a recipe when I make these, but to write this column and tell you how to make crab melts, I did some measuring as I added ingredient after ingredient. I put each ingredient into a measuring cup without packing them down – just left loose; so keep that in mind as you build your own crab melts. And don’t feel you have to match my measurements exactly – just fairly closely. By the second or third time you make crab melts you probably won’t need to do any measuring.
You can use this recipe to make shrimp, chicken, or even hot-dog melts by substituting the crabmeat.
Ingredients
- 1 six-oz can crabmeat (Roland white crabmeat is available at Supermas)
- 1 cup grated radishes
- 1 cup green onions (scallions), thinly sliced
- ½ cup celery, finely chopped
- ½ cup cucumber, finely chopped (seeds and pulp removed, but unpeeled)
- 12 green olives, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ cup Dijon mustard
- salt and white pepper, to taste
- 6 oz Emmenthal cheese, grated
- 8 English muffin halves, toasted