Crab Thermidor

This is a simple recipe I found on the internet a while ago. Many recipes use imitation crab meat or some subsitute for crab meat, but I used crab meat here. It's time consuming to clean crab as you may imagine, but the taste is simply divine! I love seafood, so I was willing to spend the time and effort on this one. I managed to find some frozen crab meat at the store, so that's what I am going to use next time.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon paprika

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1-1/2 cups cream

50g processed cheese, cubed

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese

250g crabmeat (1kg crab fetches about 250g meat; boil crabs whole for 7 mins, cool and clean)

Method:

-In a large saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the flour, salt, paprika and nutmeg until smooth, keep on low heat. Gradually add cream. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat; stir in process cheese and lemon juice until cheese is melted. Remove from heat; stir in parmesan cheese until melted. Stir in crab.
-Transfer to 3 greased ramekins. Sprinkle with additional paprika and parmesan if desired. Bake, uncovered, at 180° C for 20-25 minutes or until bubbly.