Crab Imperial Appetizer is an elegant appetizer, and tastes like it came from a lovely fancy restaurant. They’re perfect for a special occasion like New Year’s Eve, for any holiday entertaining, or for a football party!

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Crab Imperial Appetizer is an elegant appetizer, and tastes like it came from a lovely fancy restaurant. They’re perfect for a special occasion like New Year’s Eve, for any holiday entertaining, or for a football party!

Simple appetizer

This crab filled appetizer is nice and easy to make. Just some simple chopping, stirring, and a little baking.

Michelle

I found this Crab Imperial Appetizer from my friend Michelle at A Dish of Daily Life.

A Dish of Daily Life is a food and travel blog that specializes in easy-to-make tasty healthy recipes, helpful how-to’s, travel adventures, and tips and tidbits of her family’s daily life.

Michelle recently had surgery, and she’s going to be recuperating for a while. So, a group of blogger friends decided that we wanted to wish her a speedy recovery and send lots of blog love to her by sharing her recipes and sending readers over to her blog!

If you scroll down to the bottom of this post you’ll see all the other blogs involved in this get well wish, as well as the recipes they are making.

This recipe is a special treat for me to share with you today. See, it not only is a great recipe, but I’m sharing it to send some love to Michelle.

I hope that you will hop over and send some love her way while she heals. And thanks!

Looking for other great crab appetizers?

Crab is such a popular seafood! So delicious and can be used in so many dishes. Here are some of my favorite appetizers using the Crustacean: Crab stuffed potatoes, Crab stuffed mushrooms, Hot baked crab dip, and Crock pot crab dip.

Check them all out, and let me know what you think!

Recipe notes

As for the details of the recipe, please feel free to use any hot sauce you wish. I used Sriracha, and it was delicious! Any family favorite will work in this; it’s just a small dash.

Crab meat

For the crab meat, I used canned refrigerated lump crab meat from the grocery store.

Of course, fresh would be delicious, and the next time I have some fresh crab meat, I intend on making this Crab Imperial Appetizer again. Here’s my guide to how to cook fresh Dungeness Crab.

What kind of bread should I use?

I wasn’t able to find Brioche at my grocery store, so I used Sheepherder Bread, as it’s a nice soft white bread.

Any good quality white bread will work. Just cut the crusts off and you’re good to go.

Recipes to wish get well soon

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