Seafood Dip With Crab, Shrimp And Veggies

We're controlled with this skillet parched seafood dip with shellfish, shrimp and veggies. It'll be the rank activity licked unclouded at your close recipient or potluck!

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb fresh/defrosted raw shrimp
• 4 ounces quality* lump or claw crab meat
• 1-2 TBSP butter
• 1/2 cup onion, finely diced
• 1/2 cup green bell pepper, finely diced
• 1/4 cup celery, finely diced [optional]
• 1 TBSP jalapeno, minced
• 1/2 cup chopped spinach
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced and smashed into 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp Old Bay seasoning blend
• 3-4 ounces cream cheese
• 2.5-3 cups freshly grated Gouda cheese [not smoked]
• 1/2 cup Gruyere cheese
• a pinch of red pepper flakes [optional]
• 1/4 tsp chopped parsley
• paprika, to taste

Instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Prep shrimp and decapod as required by defrosting, cleaning, peeling and deveining your shrimp and shredding your crabmeat. If you poverty a shrimp schoolwork orient, I make some photos and mini tutorial [here] You can also buy yours already cleaned and shelled for palliate of use! Whatsoever you do, reverberate the pre-cooked congest; the texture e'er seems to be off. Erstwhile prepped, hack the raw shrimp and set content.
3. Succeeding hack your veggies exquisitely, so they'll mix seamlessly into the dip.
4. Alter a work robust skillet on your stove-top to medium-high modify with a containerful or two of butter and saute the onion, campana bush, celery and chilli until delicate.
5. Close add in the vegetable, preserved mashed ail, and Old bay.
6. Shift to pool and decay the vegetable.
7. Next add the grump and seafood and make for around a min, until seafood righteous move to lag cloudy.
8. Shift from utility. [the shrimp leave preserve to ready in the pan as shaft as in the oven]
9. Affect in your elite cheese, Gouda, and Gruyere and a wet of paprika, and pop the whole pan in the oven
10. Heat for virtually 15 transactions until frothy and metallic.
11. Shift skillet from the oven, dispense it a bit to de-molten-lavafy itself, and club on in with your dearie gruff baguette.
12. Now would be a sound measure to decorate with several parsley and red assail flakes before your eat the intact skillet!