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Crab Cakes

These crab cakes are a mixture of crab meat - of course - with onion, parsley, breadcrumbs, egg and mayonnaise.

The cakes are made fairly thick and shallow fried in a pan, but they can also be deep fried.

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Last modified on: July 1^st 2015

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For 6 cakes, you will need:

1 250 g crab meat
2 2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 1 onion
4 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
5 1 tablespoon Mayonnaise
6 parsley
7 1 egg
8 6 tablespoons oil
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 590 grams

Change these quantities to make: 2 cakes 3 cakes 6 cakes 12 cakes 18 cakes

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
22 min.	30 min.	11 min.	1 hour 3 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Put 250 g crab meat into a bowl and pour 2 tablespoons lemon juice over.

Stage 2 - 4 min.

Chop 1 onion finely (spring onions here, as they are in season).

Stage 3 - 4 min.

Add the chopped parsley, 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon Mayonnaise and 1 egg. Salt sparingly and pepper generously.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Mix all this together.

If the mixture is too wet or soft, add more breadcrumbs.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Shape into thick cakes with your hands or, for a more regular shape, use a cutter and a tablespoon.

Stage 6 - 30 min.

Use up all the mixture, then refrigerate the prepared crab cakes for at least 30 minutes. This will firm them up so that they do not fall apart during cooking.

Stage 7 - 1 min.

Pour 6 tablespoons oil into a frying pan on medium heat. When hot, gently lower in 2 crab cakes.

Stage 8 - 10 min.

Fry the crab cakes on both sides until nicely browned.

Cook all the cakes like this, putting them on absorbant paper to drain off excess oil as you take them out of the pan.

Stage 9

Serve with a green salad or coleslaw and a dollop of mayonnaise on top.

Remarks

For a more robust flavour, you can replace the mayonnaise with a spoonful of mustard.

Keeping

Should be eaten immediately.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,399 Kcal or 5,857 Kj	54 gr	37 gr	115 gr
70 %	21 %	4 %	17 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
237 Kcal or 992 Kj	9 gr	6 gr	20 gr
12 %	3 %	1 %	3 %

Per cakes
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
233 Kcal or 976 Kj	9 gr	6 gr	19 gr
12 %	3 %	1 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 cakes : 8.25 €
Per cakes : 1.38 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Crab meat: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Seafood feuillantines, Breton Sandwich, Verrine of avocado mousse and crab, Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches , ... All
	Oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cocotte eggs with Comté, Tournedos Rossini, Comtoise tart for Seàn, Chicken with spinach in a cream sauce , Pork chops in the oven, ... All
	Lemon juice: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Cubed salad, Baked potoatoes with herb butter or cream , Smoked haddock and leek fondue tartines, Tzatziki, Sautéed oyster mushrooms, ... All
	Breadcrumbs: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Wiener Schnitzel, Mini Mont d'Or fondue with "spuds in blankets", French toast "cordon bleu", Sesame fried scampi, Curried tuna cubes, ... All

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