Cheddar Cheese Crab Bake

Total Time: 26 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 16 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/3 cup canned crabmeat, picked over and lightly drained
• 1 tablespoon melted butter, for biscuit dough, plus
• 2 tablespoons melted butter, for brushing on dough after baking
• 2/3 cup milk (can use 1%, 2% of full fat, but not skim)
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes, ground finely (crush with fingers)
• 1 3/4 cups finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese (not fat free)
• 2 cups bisquick reduced-fat baking mix or 2 cups comparable baking mix

Recipe

• 1 wash your hands well (you will be mixing dough with them).
• 2 preheat oven to 450.
• 3 spray pizza baking sheet or jelly roll/baking sheet with non stick spray in a 8 inch circle in center of sheet.
• 4 cut 2 tb of butter off of stick, then 1 tb off of stick.
• 5 melt 1 tb of butter in microwave for a few seconds (be careful when you take it out not to burn yourself).
• 6 in a medium mixing bowl, combine bisquick or baking mix, 1 cup of the cheddar cheese, milk and 1tb of the melted butter.
• 7 mix with your hand until well combined.
• 8 dough will form a sticky thick glob and mixture should not be dry or crumbly at all- scrape excess off of hand and pat into ball- pick up dough ball and put it into center of your sprayed circle on your baking sheet- add any dough from bowl that you can scrape up.
• 9 spread dough into a pizza shape about 8 inches in diameter, forming a lip around edge like a pizza- to do this, i just started from the center and kept mashing out towards the edges- the lip naturally formed for me this way- if your dough isn't round in shape, then shape it like you would playdough.
• 10 wash your hands and dry well.
• 11 take parsley flakes and, pinching them between your fingers make sure they are finely ground.
• 12 after grinding them well, sprinkle them on top of your dough.
• 13 sprinkle the crabmeat on top of the parsley flakes.
• 14 sprinkle the remaining cheese on top of the crabmeat.
• 15 remember not to go all the way to the edge of your"pizza" with your cheese.
• 16 bake for approx 15 minutes on center rack or until the cheese browns slightly.
• 17 while bread is baking, melt the other 2 tb of butter and combine with the garlic powder.
• 18 when bread is finished, take out of oven and immediately brush entire surface with the melted butter/garlic powder.
• 19 put back in oven for 1 more minute.
• 20 take out of oven and slice into 8 pieces with pizza cutter and serve hot.