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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 18 cakes, you will need:

1 750 g crab meat
2 6 tablespoons lemon juice
3 3 onions
4 6 tablespoons breadcrumbs
5 3 tablespoons Mayonnaise
6 parsley
7 3 Eggs
8 18 tablespoons oil
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 1,770 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 750 g crab meat into a bowl and pour 6 tablespoons lemon juice over.

Stage 2 - 4 min.

Chop 3 onions finely (spring onions here, as they are in season).

Stage 3 - 4 min.

Add the chopped parsley, 6 tablespoons breadcrumbs, 3 tablespoons Mayonnaise and 3 Eggs. 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 18 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.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,734 Kcal or 19,820 Kj	163 gr	112 gr	404 gr
237 %	63 %	11 %	61 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
267 Kcal or 1,118 Kj	9 gr	6 gr	23 gr
13 %	4 %	1 %	3 %

Per cakes
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
263 Kcal or 1,101 Kj	9 gr	6 gr	22 gr
13 %	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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Shellfish, Gluten, leaven, Egg, Sulfites, Mustard

How much will it cost?

For 18 cakes : 24.76 €
Per cakes : 1.38 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Crab meat: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches , Breton Sandwich, Verrine of avocado mousse and crab, Seafood feuillantines, ... All
	Oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Eggs Arsène, Mayonnaise, Pancake batter, Curried tuna cubes, Escalope cordon bleu, ... All
	Lemon juice: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Greek salad, Crispy potato and mushroom brik rolls, Red mullet fillets in a quick marinade, Sautéed oyster mushrooms, Julia salad, ... All
	Breadcrumbs: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Crunchy little pieces of fish, Wiener Schnitzel, Fish "à la Bordelaise", Scallops au gratin, Escalope cordon bleu, ... All

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