Sunday, February 19, 2012
Crab and Shrimp Pan Roast
I have a favorite restaurant here in Vegas. I ate probably what is safe to say my favorite meal ever here. The restaurant is called Anthony's at the M Resort. This dish that I adore is called the Crab Pan Roast. My friend introduced me to it for the first time a year ago. My husband and I were supposed to meet her and her husband at this oyster bar that is part of the restaurant. We were running late so they said they would order for us. They suggested this dish and I originally thought it was going to be like a pot roast or something. So I was not that excited about it. When we got to the restaurant, they put the pan roast in front of us and the smell alone sent me in a food coma. It was so good! Then we tasted it. First bite sent fireworks going off in my mouth. I tasted savory, rich butter in a saffron spicy tomato broth. So many wonderful flavors all at once. Then I tasted the rice with the buttery, savory tomato broth and that added an even better element to the dish. It is a short grain rice that is light and fluffy and it fit perfectly with the broth. Then I added the crab leg meat to the buttery, savory broth and rice and what did I get? The perfect dish! I crave this meal at least once a week and almost always immediately the next day after I eat it. The thought of being able to make it at home and reproduce it the way it is produced for me at the restaurant, seemed impossible. However, a couple of weeks ago I was in Arizona. We went to this little spice market. The smell inside was great. So many fresh spices and mixed spice blends. I asked if they had saffron and they did! Now, you can buy saffron in the grocery store but it is extremely expensive and you dont get very much. Not only was this saffron at this market fresh, but they little vile was full of beautiful orangey-red saffron and for a fraction of the cost at the grocery store. I bought it and that was it. I knew I had to now construct the pan roast at my house. So this evening, I will be doing that. The ingredients I have are as follows: tomato sauce, saffron, short grain rice, chicken stock, cream, butter, crab, and garlic. If it turns out to be a success, I will post the recipe for you all to enjoy. P.s this is not an actual picture of the pan roast at the restaurant I went to. There are many versions of this dish. I have eaten it at other places and I have found that Anthony's Steakhouse or the oyster bar in the M Resort in Las Vegas, serves the best version
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