A very easy “chop and dump” kind of recipe using easy to find ingredients. This one is SO good!
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Ingredients
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup green onions finely chopped
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup See Notes
- 1 can cream of chicken soup See Notes
- 1 can cream of celery soup See Notes
- 3 soup cans half and half or milk See Notes
- 1-2 pounds Louis Kemp or other Imitation Crabmeat chopped, See Notes
- 2 cans crab claw meat picked clean (see notes)
- 2 tablespoons sherry I used 2 t white wine vinegar (see notes)
- seasonings See Notes
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Instructions
- Original Recipe Instructions: Combine and heat all ingredients together, stirring constantly.
- This soup is better if made the day before
- Stacy's Directions: I like to saute the green onions in the butter before adding the other ingredients. I was taking this to a party, so I made it on the stovetop in a big Dutch oven and then transferred to my crockpot to transport and stay warm. I made it a few hours ahead of time, to give the flavors time to meld.
Recipe Notes
Stacy's Notes:
- I made this a lot in the 90's until Tim deemed it "girlie soup" and then I stopped making it! Made it in February 2020 for a "Souper Bowl" party and it turned out really well.
- Per my tastes, I use 2 cans of cream of mushroom and 1 can of cream of chicken (since I'm not a celery fan).
- I used half and half, and did pour the half and half in the 3 soup cans and sloshed them around to get everything out. I ended up adding the rest of the quart (2 pints) of half and half, which made it a bit thinner, but it was still good, more a soup than a chowder.
- When I received this recipe from a dear friend, it said to use 2 cans of "crab claw meat". I couldn't find those, so I bought Bumblebee brand canned crabmeat. I opened the cans and expected to have to pick out cartilage and bones, but it was very clean and ready to use.
- I normally add 1 package (1 lb) of imitation crab meat. However, when I made this soup and filmed for our Youtube video, I was overzealous and chopped the imitation crab very fine. I wanted there to be bigger pieces of meat, so I ran to the store and purchased a second package of imitation crabmeat, and chopped it much larger. I would do this again. It was much better with two packages of imitation crab versus one package.
- I don't keep sherry in the house, so I substituted 2 teaspoons of white wine vinegar for the 2 TABLEspoons of sherry
- For seasonings, I added salt, white pepper and a few dashes of Old Bay seasoning.
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