Chili pies
Crab burger
- 250 GRAM PUFF PASTRY, in 10X10 centimeter squares
- 400 GRAM MINCED BEEF
- 1 ONION, chopped
- 2 CHILI PEPPERS, chopped
- 2 CLOVES GARLIC, chopped
- 1 TSP CHILI POWDER
- 1 TBSP TOMATO PUREE
- 250 GRAM CRAB MEAT
- 250 GRAM SALMON, chopped
- 1/2 TBSP CREOLE SEASONING
- 1 CLOVE GARLIC, mashed
- 4 TBSP BREAD CRUMBS
- 4 TBSP COCKTAIL SAUCE
- 1 EGG
- 1 TSP MUSTARD
- 1 TBSP CHUTNEY
- 4 WHITE BUNS, sliced in two
Stir fry the onion, garlic and chili peppers 3 minutes and add salt and pepper to taste. Add the minced beef and fry five minutes more. Add the tomato puree and the chili powder, stir well. Distribute this mixture over the puff pastry squares and fold them diagonally; close them with a little water. Bake the pies 20 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius.
Mix the egg with the seasoning, the mustard, the garlic, the bread crumbs and the mustard en pepper and salt to taste. Add the crab meat and the salmon and mix well. Form 4 burgers from this mixture. Fry the burgers 6 minutes on each side. In the mean time, toast the bun halves. Spread the cocktail sauce on the buns, put the burgers on the buns and put some chutney on top.
See also recipes for hamburger, salmon burger and fish burger.
Crab burger is a recipe from Panama. The 9th of January is Martyr's Day in Panama, and the students who died in 1964 at the Panama Canal are commemorated. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and celebration.
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