Crab Dip Appetizer

This warm crab dip appetizer is a HUGE hit at parties! Serve it with crackers, tortilla chips, or spoon it into phyllo shells as individual appetizers.

How to Make this Baked Crab Dip

Ingredients:

One pound fresh lump crabmeat or backfin crabmeat
One 8-oz. package cream cheese, softened
1/4 to 1/3 cup milk
Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Parsley flakes
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Paprika
Crackers or tortilla chips for dipping

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Put crabmeat into medium mixing bowl.
In a small mixing bowl, combine milk and cream cheese. Mix until well blended. Add to crabmeat.
Add 2 to 3 shakes worcestershire sauce, garlic powder and a few sprinkles of parsley to crabmeat mixture. Stir to mix well, trying not to break up the lumps of meat. Pour into a small casserole dish.
Top crabmeat mixture with shredded cheddar cheese. Sprinkle with paprika and parsley flakes.
Bake for 20 to 30 minutes, or until heated through.
Serve with crackers or tortilla chips.

As an alternative to serving this as a dip, you can serve it as individual appetizers.

After all of the ingredients for the crabmeat mixture have been combined, spoon the mixture into phyllo shells. Sprinkle with paprika and parsley; bake on a baking sheet until heated through.