Palace Cafe Crabmeat Cheesecake

Recipe courtesy The Palace Cafe: The Flavor of New Orleans by Dickie Brennan, published by Favorite Recipes Press, 2002

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3 hr 30 min
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8 servings
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Ingredients

Pecan Crust:

Filling:

  • 1 cup diced onion
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 4 ounces crabmeat
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1/3 cup Creole cream cheese or sour cream
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce (recommended: Crystal brand hot sauce)
  • Kosher salt and white pepper

Meuniere Sauce:

  • 1 lemon, peeled and quartered
  • 1 cup Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 cup hot pepper sauce
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 pound butter, cold, cut into small cubes, and divided
  • Kosher salt and white pepper

Garnish:

  • 2 cups sliced mixed wild mushrooms
  • 3 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 24 crab claw fingers
  • Kosher salt and cracked black pepper

Directions

Preparing the Pecan Crust:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Finely grind pecans in a food processor. Add flour and salt. Mix well. Transfer to a large mixing bowl and cut in butter, working butter into flour with 2 knives until dough is in crumbs the size of small peas. Add ice water and evenly incorporate into the mixture, which should remain fairly crumbly. Roll out dough to a 1/8-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Press dough into a lightly greased 9-inch tart pan, starting with the sides and then the bottom. Bake crust for 20 minutes, or until golden.

Note: Dough can be made ahead of time. If doing so, wrap dough tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate. Allow dough to come to room temperature before rolling out.

Preparing the Filling:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

In a skillet, saute onion in butter until translucent. Add crabmeat and cook just until heated through, then remove from heat. Blend cream cheese until smooth in a mixer fitted with a paddle, or by hand using a wooden spoon. Add Creole cream cheese and mix well. Mix in eggs 1 at a time. Gently fold in the crabmeat mixture. Stir in hot sauce and season, to taste, with salt and white pepper. Spoon filling into prepared crust. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until firm to the touch.

Preparing the Meuniere Sauce and Garnish:

Combine lemon, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce in a heavy saucepot. Reduce over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wire whisk until mixture becomes thick and syrupy. Whisk in heavy whipping cream. Reduce heat to low and slowly blend in butter, 1 cube at a time, adding additional butter only after each cube has been completely incorporated into the sauce. This process is called "mounting the butter." Remove from heat and continue to stir. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Strain through a fine strainer and keep warm.

Saute mushrooms in 2 tablespoons butter until tender and all moisture has cooked off. Excess water from the mushrooms may break your sauce if it isn't cooked off. Stir mushrooms into Meuniere sauce. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a saute pan and warm crab fingers over low heat. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

To serve:

Slice cheesecake and top each piece with warm Meuniere sauce and 3 crab claws.

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  • on January 23, 2012

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    I've served this at many parties and get rave reviews. Love the melding of flavors. Yummy. This is a higher level of complexity but well worth it.

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  • on November 22, 2011

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    I have started cutting the crust recipe in half, since as it is written is a little too thick for me. But otherwise, I love this recipe

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  • on August 15, 2011

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    The real Palace Cafe Cheesecake recipe is definitely a 5 star recipe. I don't know if these reviewers cooked directly from this recipe or not, but this version had several proportion errors. I know they have the disclaimer that it is a scaled down recipe and they haven't tested it in the Food Network kitchen, but Dickie Brennan has his REAL recipe published on the Palace Cafe site: FN won't let me post the link, but you can google Palace Cafe recipes and find it there. I made it this weekend and it is fabulous!!!

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