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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

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 those ingredients for: 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.

Keeping: Should be eaten immediately.

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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.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,393 Kcal or 5,832 Kj	54 gr	37 gr	114 gr
70 %	21 %	4 %	17 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
236 Kcal or 988 Kj	9 gr	6 gr	19 gr
12 %	3 %	1 %	3 %

Per cakes
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
232 Kcal or 971 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 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

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	Crab meat: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Verrine of avocado mousse and crab, Seafood feuillantines, Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches , Breton Sandwich, ... All
	Oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Salmon marinated like herring, Winegrowers' sausage casserole, Spinach brik parcels, How to cook potato grenaille , Rémoulette dressing, ... All
	Lemon juice: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Fillets of sole meunière, Greek salad, Cubed salad, Mackerel rillettes, Chocolate mousse, ... All
	Breadcrumbs: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Crunchy little pieces of fish, Curried tuna cubes, Tomatoes Provençal, Sesame fried scampi, French toast "cordon bleu", ... All

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