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Preview: Fresh Crab Cakesby Curtis W in Rouxbe Videos This crowd pleasing appetizer is served with a simple dill dressing.
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Step 1: Preparing the Dressing
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Mix mayonnaise, dill, salt, pepper and lemon juice together and set aside. |
Step 2: Making the Crab Cakes
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To start the crab cakes, pre-heat the oven to 325° degrees Fahrenheit. Next cut the ends off of the pepper and remove the insides. Now brunoise the peppers (which basically just means to cut them into small even size pieces). Then finely dice the chives. Place the crab meat into a medium bowl and break it up checking for any pieces of shell.
Now divide the mixture up into equal portions, then form into little cakes.
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Step 3: Finishing the Crab Cakes
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When you are ready to cook the crab cakes, sprinkle the breadcrumbs onto a plate and roll each cake in the breadcrumbs to coat. Heat a non-stick fry pan over high heat and add the clarified butter and heat until it just begins to smoke.
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Notes
For a little twist you could also add shrimp to this recipe. Also, for a little bit of kick you can add either crushed chili's or minced jalapeño.
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Comments
I haven't made this recipe yet, but it seems to be missing some information -- what temperature do you set your oven at when baking them off? Is it a medium oven 350ish? or a hot oven 400+?
Print/view recipe (which is the print icon), or "Step Recipe" to the right of Step 2 "Making the Crab Cakes, both say to Preheat oven to 325° F.
Good luck! These are delicious.
Do you have any recommendations for bread crumbs? What type of bread did you use? I've never used bread crumbs. Thanks for any assistance!
The best breadcrumbs to use for this recipe are dried, which also happen to be the easiest to find. Any Italian Deli and most Grocery stores will sell them. Or you could make your own.
Nice work Curtis. Thanks for sharing. Always wondered how these were made. P
Not sure if it would work for this recipe, but I do a similar version with panko. Great texture.
I'm going to try this recipe as is, though!
The cakes were great, boyfriend loved them. And with the plating tips they look like they took so much more effort and time than they did ;)
not impressed, we make awesome dungeness crabcakes with togarashi kaffir etc, on a bed of chipotle hollandaise. Sorry this is boring.
Anyone else tried these? If so, what did you think? I personally loved them.
I agree that you don't need crab legs or claw meat, we just shell out the fresh Dungeness and use the body meat.
If you try a little togarashi and kaffir lime leaf you will be surprised at how it takes these up a few noches. We place in forms and fry in grapeseed oil or rice bran oil or ghee.
Chipotle Hollandaise is amazing, but we are into complex subtle flavours all in balance.
Our recipe is not unlike yours just has a little tist with bai magroot and togarashi.
Bon Appetite
I have made these a few times and everyone really likes them.
I like the simplicity of the crab but the chipotle sauce sounds nice.
My husband loved them but I felt something was missing. Maybe I should try spicing it up. Also - active time was more like 40 minutes, not 20.
The crab cakes turned out perfect - my wife loved them. Very tasty and great consistency. Will defenitely do this recipe again.
The drill down info on clarified butter was good as I had never done that before.
Never have made anything with crab meat. How do I purchase it. Can I buy packaged or do i buy whole crab?
I would suggest buying your crab meat already shelled. Any fish store should carry fresh crab meat. It typically does not come packaged, rather sold at the fish market by weight. Just ask for enough for the recipe. Keep in mind that some fish stores sell whole crab leg meat at a premium price (very expensive). You really don't care if the meat is broken up a bit as you are going to break it up anyway, so no need for this premium product.
Tip: I prefer to buy fresh fish products on Wednesday's to Saturday's. Monday's in most fish stores is left-over day (not always). Typically, the fresh stuff comes into most stores on Tuesdays.
I am on a low carb diet for diabetes, can the sprouted wheat bread be substituted for the bread crumbs? Any other suggestions??
You can make breadcrumbs with any bread. Simply break it up and pulse it in the food processor, fresh, until semi-coarse. Let them dry a bit before using, or dry completely and store. Sprouted wheat breadcrumbs actually sound quite nice.