ABALONE STUFFED WITH CRABMEAT

Serving Size : 4

Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
                     -----WHITE SAUCE-----
2       tb           Butter or margarine
2       tb           Flour
                     Salt, pepper
1       c            Warm milk
                     -----ABALONE-----
                     Butter or margarine
2                    Shallots -- minced
1       c            Cooked crabmeat
                     Salt, white pepper
1       d            Red pepper
  1/2   ts           Dry mustard
  1/2   ts           Worcestershire sauce
  1/2                Lemon (juice only)
4                    Large abalone steaks
2                    Eggs -- beaten
                     Flour

Melt 2 tablespoons butter in skillet and stir in flour. Season to taste
with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, over medium heat about 1 minute but
do not allow flour to brown. Add milk and cook and stir 1 or 2 minutes
until mixture comes to boil and thickens. Set aside.
For abalone, melt 1 tablespoon butter in small saucepan, add shallots and
cook until tender but not browned. Add crabmeat and heat thoroughly. Add
enough white sauce to bind, about 1/2 cup. Season to taste with salt and
white pepper and add red pepper, mustard, Worcestershire and lemon juice.
Carefully pound abalone steaks between 2 sheets of waxed paper until very
thin (unless purchased already pounded). Dip abalone in eggs seasoned to
taste with salt and white pepper. Coat with flour and set aside. Melt 2
tablespoons butter in heavy skillet. Add abalone and brown quickly on one
side. Turn and brown other side. Do not overcook as abalone will toughen.
Place abalone steaks on platter and spoon crabmeat stuffing on each. Roll
and arrange on serving platter, seam down. If desired, serve with any
remaining sauce.