Ultimate Hot Baltimore Crab Dip Amongst Soft Pretzel Sticks

for the dip:

Ingredients:

1 loving cup bluish crab claw meat
1 loving cup lump bluish crab meat
1 loving cup cream cheese, at room temperature
3⁄4 loving cup sour cream
1⁄4 loving cup Frank’s® RedHot® Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce
two 1⁄2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 1⁄2 tablespoons Chesapeake Bay seasoning (Old Bay)
1⁄2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
1⁄4 teaspoon freshly dry reason dark pepper
1 shallot, minced
3⁄4 loving cup shredded abrupt Cheddar cheese

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350°F.

In a medium bowl, stir together both crab meat, cream cheese, sour cream, Frank’s® RedHot® Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce, mayonnaise, Chesapeake Bay seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, dark pepper, as well as shallot until smooth.

Spread the mixture into an 8 x 8-inch baking dish. Sprinkle alongside the cheese inwards an fifty-fifty layer. Bake uncovered until the cheese is melted as well as the dip is warmed through, close fifteen minutes. Serve forthwith alongside crackers, chips, bread, or Soft Pretzel Sticks.

Makes close eighteen servings


for the pretzel sticks:

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon active dry out yeast
1 1⁄2 teaspoons sugar
1 1⁄3 cups lukewarm water
four 1⁄3 cups flour
3⁄4 loving cup baking soda
1 egg, beaten
iii tablespoons pretzel common salt (or sesame seeds)
canola crude for greasing bowl

Directions:

In a large bowl, stir together the yeast, sugar, as well as warm water; allow stand upward iii minutes. Add the flour; mix alongside a stand upward or electrical mixer alongside a dough claw attachment until the dough forms a smooth, elastic ball. Grease a large bowl alongside canola oil; identify the dough inwards a bowl. Place inwards a mutual frigidity oven for 50 minutes or until doubled inwards size.

 Remove the bowl from the oven. Preheat oven to 425°F.

Gently force your fist into the dough to deflate; separate the dough into 12 pieces. Using your hands, on a floured surface, curl each slice of dough into 1-inch-thick, 10-inch-long ropes.

Pour baking soda into a 6- to 8-quart Dutch oven or stockpot; attain amount it alongside H2O to inside iii inches of the top. Stir alongside a whisk until the baking soda is dissolved. Heat to boiling.

Line a large cookie canvas alongside cooking parchment paper. Using tongs, dip each rope into the boiling baking soda–water mixture for xxx seconds. Place on the cookie sheet. Brush the dough alongside egg; sprinkle alongside common salt (or sesame seeds). Bake 12 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

Yield: close 12 sticks.



Make It Even More Awesome

In Baltimore, in that place is a pop appetizer called the crab pretzel. It is a huge soft pretzel heaped alongside crab dip as well as tons of oozing cheese. To arrive at home, brand the Ultimate Hot Baltimore Crab Dip omitting the cheese topping. Then brand the pretzel dough, but instead of making it into sticks, shape it into i giant pretzel. Bake equally called for, as well as thus take from the oven as well as spread the crab dip liberally over the operate past times of the pretzel. Sprinkle alongside shredded Cheddar cheese. Return to the oven for v minutes to melt the cheese. Serve immediately. (I equally good convey approximately other version of crab pretzels here)

My thoughts:

I require heed in that place is a large game this weekend as well as it reminded me that I never posted this version of crab dip here! It appears inwards my cookbook, classic Baltimore crab dip that y'all honor at every political party here. The pretzels are actually proficient alongside it but y'all tin equally good simply serve it alongside crackers,  bread, crudités or sturdy chips if pretzels are to a greater extent than of a commitment you're interested inwards making.