Recipe: Yummy Crab Cakes

Crab Cakes. A crab cake is a variety of fishcake that is popular in the United States. It is composed of crab meat and various other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, mayonnaise, mustard (typically prepared mustard, but sometimes mustard powder), eggs, and seasonings, particularly the cake is then sautéed, baked. Crab cakes should be all about the crab — no questions asked.

Here in the Pacific Northwest we have Dungeness crabs. Perfect Crab Cakes are super easy to make. Crab cakes are a great way to use leftover crab meat, but you can also buy packaged crab meat just to make crab cakes! You can have Crab Cakes using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Crab Cakes

1. You need 1/2 of onion chopped well.
2. Prepare 2 of celery stalks copped well.
3. It's 1 stick of of butter.
4. It's 2 tbsp of parsley.
5. Prepare 1 can of crab meat , do not drain.
6. You need 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
7. Prepare 1 of egg.
8. It's 3 tbsp of old bay seasonings.
9. Prepare 1 of lemon.
10. It's 1 tbsp of horseradish sauce.
11. It's 1 cup of seasoned breadcrumbs.

People in different regions use different seasonings in crab cakes, so feel free. This is the best crab cake recipe you will ever find. If you don't overmix, and don't pack your mounds too tightly, you will experience pure, unadulterated crab cake heaven. My crab cake connisseur thought they were great.

Crab Cakes step by step

1. melt half stick butter in pan, add onions and celery and parsley saute 3-5 min until soft.
2. Remove from heat and add crab meat with liquid.
3. In large bowl combine egg, beaten, mayo, horseradish, and old bay seasonings, mix well.
4. Bread crumbs to mayo mixture, add crab nd veggies, and squeeze juice of half the lemon mix by hand until a wet pasty dough, if too wet to hold together add a small amount of breadcrumbs until they hold together.
5. shape in to patties large or small whatever your preference place in refrigerator 10 min.
6. melt remaining butter in skillet over medium heat fry patties about 3-5 min per side or until golden brown.
7. Remove from pan on to paper towel.
8. Serve with remaining fresh lemon, tartar sauce , horseradish sauce, or a roumalade sauce.
9. You can make these ahead of time and warm in oven at like 300 until heated through.

Served them with a Joe's Mustard Sauce (South Beach Diet) and they were a hit! Crab cakes are a stunning appetizer that's easy to make at home. Panko breadcrumbs help bind the Crab cakes are always on the menu at fancy restaurants, but why wait for date night or special. This easy homemade Crab Cakes recipe couldn't be more DELICIOUS or easy! They're made with fresh lump crab meat, diced bell pepper, cilantro, mayonnaise and spices.