Fish fingers, grilled chicken and crab cakes, when served hot as side dishes, take your appetite to a different level. Well, people who have tasted crisp fried crabs can well estimate how scrumptious it is. Whether it is grilled, baked or roasted recipes, cooking crabs is a little bit tricky. A few culinary enthusiasts love to carry out the entire preparatory steps by themselves while others prefer use of canned crabs. However, the basic method of cooking crabs is more or less the same.
Easy to Make Crab Cakes
Those who prefer to make crab cakes with canned crabs need not undergo the process of dressing the crabs. However, the joy of cooking fresh crabs is entirely different! Crab cakes are served as appetizers, side dishes and often as evening snacks. Check out the recipes on how to make crab cakes and follow the same techniques while preparing various types of crab cake recipes at home.
Recipe 1
The authentic form of crab cakes are savored with a dip in butter and peppermint sauce. Cooking crab cakes is utterly easy. All you need to do is, get a crunchy crab and the keep the ingredients ready. In this section I shall explain you the process of making fried crab cakes on a pan. You should also have the American type crab cake dipping sauce for the fried cakes.
Ingredients
- Blue crab meat, 1 pound
- Vegetable oil, 2 tsp
- Mayonnaise, 2 tsps
- Mustard, 1 tsp
- Beaten egg, 1
- Saltine crackers, 8
- Old Bay seasoning, tsp
- Worcestershire sauce, 1/4 tsp
- Carefully remove the cartilage from the crab meat and keep it inside the bowl and then marinate it with some salt and vinegar.
- Break the crackers and then mix with the beaten egg, seasoning, mayonnaise and mustard.
- Form crab meat balls with the combined ingredients and then refrigerate for one hour.
- Keep the pan ready and heat the cooking oil to fry the balls. Saute the balls until they turn golden brown.
- Garnish with Worcestershire sauce or tartar and top with shredded cheese. Serve hot.
So how to cook crab cakes in oven? Well, this is the easiest way to prepare the vintage recipes of crab cakes, like the Mediterranean styles. Crab cakes when baked in oven are healthier than the pan fried cakes because of minimal use of oil. Make sure you select a good sauce for crab cakes to relish the flavor completely.
Ingredients
- Crab meat, 1 pound
- Bread crumbs, 6
- Melted butter, cup
- Beaten egg, 1
- Salt and Pepper, 1 pinch
- Lemon juice, 1 tsp
- First preheat the oven at 400 degree F.
- Combine crab meat with egg, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, melted butter, salt and pepper.
- Wrap the mixture with a thick coating of bread crumb and make it in the form of small cakes
- Grease the baking sheet with a little melted butter or vegetable oil and place the cakes over them.
- Bake for 20 minutes till the cakes become golden brown in color. Serve hot with your favorite topping.
The Caribbean style of grilled crab cakes are amazingly delicious. Making crab cakes by grilling, roasting or smoking is relished the best when eaten with salsa or any authentic variety of crab cake sauces. The same recipe can be followed for making roasted or smoked crabs.
Ingredients
- Crab meat, pound
- mayonnaise, cup
- Minced green onions, 2
- Bread crumbs, 1 cup
- Minced garlic, 1 clove
- Vegetable oil, 2 tsp
- Salt and pepper, 1 pinch
- Mango salsa
- Mix all the ingredients with the crab meat. Adjust the composition by adding corn flour or bread crumbs. Mix the hot sauce, garlic and the onions thoroughly.
- Form cake like shapes with the mixture and refrigerate for half an hour.
- Prepare the mango salsa by adding jalapeno, diced mango, lime juice, cilantro and basil and then cool it for at least one hour.
- Put the crab cakes into the grilled bars and heat it inside the preheated over. You can also crisp fry the patties.
- Let all the sides turn dark brown and then top it with mango salsa.
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