Here's a taste of Mid-Missouri, from Jack's Gourmet Restaurant.
Ingredients
Colossal shrimp stuffed with deviled crabmeat and broiled. Served with mushroom risotto and fresh asparagus.
Stuffed Shrimp
3 raw colossal shrimp, butterflied with tail on
Diable Sauce Ingredients
1 Tbsp. tomato paste
1/2 oz. Pernod
1/2 oz. sherry
2 cups heavy cream
1 Tbsp. dried tarragon
1 1/2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. sugar
Roux to thicken
Juice of one lemon
Salt and cayenne pepper to taste
Deviled Crab Stuffing
3 oz. lump crabmeat
1 1/2 cup unseasoned bread crumbs
1 cup Diable Sauce (above recipe)
1 tomato, peeled, seeded and diced
1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 Tbsp. melted butter
2 tsp. dried tarragon
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Stuffed Shrimp
1. Over medium heat, cook tomato paste with sherry and Pernod for one minute.
2. Add remaining ingredients, except roux and lemon juice. Simmer for three minutes.
3. Add roux. Cook for one minute.
4. Add lemon juice and adjust seasonings.
Deviled Crab Stuffing
1. Mix all ingredients together, except crab.
2. Gently fold in crabmeat by hand.
3. Put 1/3 of mixture on top of each shrimp.
4. Bake in 400° oven or broil for five minutes until golden brown. Serve with remaining Diable sauce.