| New England Crab Meat Roll Recipe |
Authentic Maine Crab Meat Roll
Crab rolls are pretty easy to make since they only have a few ingredients. One of the items that is necessary to make an official New England crab roll is the hot dog bun. For some reason the hot dog rolls that are sold throughout New England have flat bread sides where the come 8 to a package and are all connected and I have found no one that knows why. When you pull the roll away from the others, your hot dog roll has two flat sides and are white bread. These rolls are always buttered on both sides and grilled to a golden brown. It's absolutely mandatory to do so to create an authentic crab roll. You could carefully slice the sides off of a hot dog roll.
The recipe calls for good quality fresh crab meat. Canned will not suffice. Frozen maybe. I prefer Maine crab meat; it is very tasty with a great crab flavor and is a little cheaper than Blue Crab, Dungeness, or King. Canadian Snow Crab is very good to use when in season.
Simply mix the crab meat by folding the mixture (over working the mixture by over mixing ruins the texture) with mayonnaise and stuff the mixture into the already grilled hot dog roll; sprinkle a tiny bit of very fine paprika on top. I personally like Cholula® Hot Sauce on top. You can also use rolls that are half the size of a hot dog roll for parties.
You can add chopped celery & parsley & powdered mustard but most Yankees frown on the idea. Most everybody also agrees to use Cain's Mayonnaise®. It is all natural and in my opinion it is the best. It is only distributed in New England & New York but you can order it on the internet through specialty shops.
Cain's Mayonnaise ® is a registered trade mark of the:
Cains Foods, L.P. of Ayer, MA and is used with permission.
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