One of the very first recipes that I tried myself about a year or so back. Hope you enjoy!

A great soup for anytime of the year :D it has good flavor, but doesn't give off strong seafood smell or too strong of crab flavor. My mother doesn't like seafood much and really likes it.

Crab Bisque Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 tbs butter
  
• 1 onion, roughly chopped
  
• 2 tbs cooking sherry
  
• 3 tbs rice
  
• 1 1/4 cups seafood/fish stock
  
• 5 oz. crab meat, plus bit more for garnish (optional)
  
• 1/2 tsp paprika
  
• 3/4 cup milk
  
• 2/3 cup heavy cream
  
• 1/8 tsp chili powder
  
• Salt to taste

Directions:

1. Melt the butter in the pot and add the chopped onion. Cook the onions until somewhat translucent. Add the cooking sherry and bring to a light boil. Add in rice and the stock.
2. Scoop the crab meat out and into the pot and then mix in the paprika. Season with a little salt and the chili pepper and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
3. Carefully pour soup into a blender and puree in batches (be careful, it’s HOT. It's no fun at all to have scalding hot crab soup fly out and burn you). Pour pureed soup back into the pan/pot and add milk and heavy cream.
4. Reheat only just to a boil, then reduce to simmer, stirring until hot all the way thru. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed. (I usually like to have it give a bit of a bite with the chili powder)
5. Pour into serving bowls. Pick out any leftover crab meat, if any left, and garnish with parmesan, chives, paprika and parsley.

Enjoy!

As seen in photo, I usually use bread-bowls for this soup, because it gives a nice sized portion plus the bowl is edible and gets loads of flavor from soaking a bit of the soup in. We use sourdough bread-bowls, and it goes perfect with it <3

Just cut the tops and carve the hole for the soup, leave about a quarter to half an inch of bread inside and bake em in 350* heat for however long it takes to dry out and toast the inside, else the soup will soak in and turn the bowl to mush. It usually takes us about 20 minutes to toast em, suggest doing that while soup is cooking.