Recipe - Stuffed Jalapenos (Massas)

One fourth cup Butter, melted
One half cup Onion, chopped
One half cup Celery, chopped
One fourth cup Garlic, chopped
12 ounce Fresh crab meat
1 Egg, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon White pepper
One half cup Cracker meal or bread crumbs
for dressing, plus extra
for coating
10 Jalapenos, cut in half, l.w.
seeded & parboiled (NOTE)

Heat butter in a nonstick skillet and saute chopped onion, celery and
garlic until softened, about 3 minutes. Combine in bowl with crab, egg,
salt, pepper and cracker meal, and mix (dressing should stick together). If
too dry, add another egg. Stuff pepper halves liberally. Moisten stuffed
peppers by dipping in cool water. Roll in more cracker meal to coat. Deep
fry (or fry in skillet) in hot vegetable oil until golden brown. NOTE: To
parboil, drop peppers into boiling water for a minute or two
until semisoft, then drain.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini