Cream Cheese Crab Spread with Homemade Crostini

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 18 servings
  • Total: 1 hr 15 min (includes chilling time)
  • Active: 15 min
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Ingredients

8 ounces Neufchatel cheese or cream cheese, softened

1 pound fresh crabmeat, picked over for shells

4 tablespoons ketchup

4 tablespoons prepared horseradish

Juice of 1/2 lemon

1 teaspoon kosher salt

Freshly ground black pepper

2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives

1 clove garlic

1 baguette, sliced into 18 rounds and toasted

Directions

  1. Combine the cream cheese and all but 1/2 cup of the crabmeat in a medium bowl. Mix until thoroughly combined. Roll into an 8-inch log and refrigerate until firmed up slightly, about 1 hour. Refrigerate the remaining 1/2 cup crabmeat until serving.
  2. Meanwhile, combine the ketchup, horseradish, lemon juice, salt and some pepper in a medium bowl. Taste and adjust to your liking.
  3. Place the log on a serving platter. Spoon some of the sauce over it, reserving the remaining sauce in a small bowl to serve on the side. Sprinkle the reserved 1/2 cup crabmeat on top and garnish with the chives. Rub the garlic onto one side of each slice of bread and arrange the bread on the serving platter.

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Myrna P.

I tried this recipe – but halved it because it was just for the small number of people. I’m not sure why one of the people who tried this hated it and thought they had wasted money on the crab since they didn’t mention what was wrong with it. I am a very seasoned cook so I made some small tweaks, and the crab dip was delicious. To the crab I added salt and pepper, chives, grated garlic, and a dash of hot sauce. I also added a dash of hot sauce to the sauce to go on top, then I refrigerated the sauce for an hour or two, and then strained out the particles from the horseradish to make it a much smoother silkier sauce. For the unseasoned cook, may be some instructions about how to make the toast would have been good. But all these things are personal taste, and overall it was a delicious crab dip.

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