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Crab Cakes

Name: Crab Cakes
Prep time: 22 min
Cook time: 11 min
Total time: 1 h 3 min
Yield: 6 cakes
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 250 g crab meat; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; 1 onion; 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs; 1 tablespoon mayonnaise; Parsley; 1 egg; 6 tablespoons oil; Salt; Pepper

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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Duration

1 hour 10 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 27^th 2026

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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: 570 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

25 min.

Resting

30 min.

Cooking

15 min.

All in all

1 hour 10 min.

Preparation 25 min.

Resting 30 min.

Cooking 15 min.

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Step by step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 2 min.

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

Step 2 - ⌛ 4 min.

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

Step 3 - ⌛ 4 min.

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

Step 4 - ⌛ 2 min.

Mix all this together.

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

Step 5 - ⌛ 10 min.

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

Step 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.

Step 7 - ⌛ 1 min.

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

Step 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.

Step 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: Homemade.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	9 g RDI=10 %	5 g RDI=1 %	19 g RDI=19 %	226 kcal RDI=8 %	947 kJ RDI=8 %
Per cakes	9 g RDI=10 %	4 g RDI=1 %	18 g RDI=18 %	213 kcal RDI=8 %	893 kJ RDI=8 %
Whole recipe	52 g RDI=59 %	27 g RDI=8 %	107 g RDI=108 %	1,280 kcal RDI=47 %	5,358 kJ RDI=47 %