Crab cakes recipes?

[Snowwark]

Does anyone have a really good crab cakes recipe, maybe similar to the yummy Peeky Toe crab cakes at Flying Fish Cafe?

 

[Margie J]

Here are a few to try:



Daufuskie Island Crab Cakes
DVC Resort - Hilton Head Island

1 lb Crab Meat
2-3 Ribs celery
1 small onion
1 medium green pepper
1 sleeve Ritz brand crackers
1 C. melted butter
Texas Pete hot sauce
Old Bay seasoning
Paul Prudhommes Seafood Magic

Pick shells from the crab. Fine dice all of the vegatables and saute in butter until cooked. Mix the crab neat with the vegetables and cool.

Grind the crackers in your hand amd mix with the crab mixture. Add hot sauce, Old Bay and Paul Prudhomme's to taste.

When cool enough to handle, shape into patties and saute until golden brown (if mixture is too loose to shape, refrigerate for 5 minutes).



New Orleans Crab Cakes
Disneyland

1 lb. imitation crab, finely chopped
1/2 lb. snow crab, finely chopped
3 large mushrooms, minced
2 Tbsp. chopped green onion
2 Tbsp. minced onion
1tsp. dried parsley
2 cloves minced garlic
1 large shallot peeled and minced
1 tsp. chicken base
1/4 tsp. ground mustard
1/4 tsp. cayenne Pepper
1/4. white pepper
2 Tbsp. cooking sherry
1/4 tsp. thyme
1 Tbsp. worcestershire sauce
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup bread crumbs
2 Egg yolks
2 Tbsp Margarine or butter

Directions

Melt Margarine in pan, add Mushrooms, Garlic, Shallots onion and Green
onions, Parsley and sauce until tender. Add all Crab meat and saute over
medium heat until hot, stirring constantly. Add bread crumbs, mix well, and
turn off heat. Place mixture on cookie sheet, cover and refrigerate until
cool approximately 1 hour).

Breading

3 Eggs
1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 cup salad oil

When cool, divide mixture into 12 equal peices. Form so that they are
round and approximately 1/2' thick. whip eggs in bowl. Dust the cakes in
flour, dip in eggs and then roll in bread crumbs.


Preheat oven to 350.

Heat salad oil in skillet until hot. place crab cakes in pan and lightly
brown on both sides. Remove from skillet and place in 9x13 baking dish.
Bake in 350 oven for 10 minutes. Seve with cajun pepper sauce and garnish
with fresh chopped chives.

Yield: 6 servings, 2 Each



Dungeness Crab Cakes
With Fulton's Mustard Sauce
From the Galley of Fulton's Crab House

Serves 6

2 1/2 lbs. Dungeness crabmeat
1 1/8 cup oyster cracker crumbs
1 tsp. Old Bay Seasoning
1/8 cup mayonnaise
1/8 cup hickory-smoked mustard
1 egg
3 Tbs. butter, melted
3 lemons, cut in halves for garnish.

Fulton's Mustard Sauce
1 Tb. Coleman's dry mustard
Juice of 1 lime
1 cup mayonnaise
1 1/4 cups sour cream
3/4 tsp. Tabasco sauce
1/3 Tb. Dijon mustard
Pinch of white pepper

In a mixing bowl, dissolve dry mustard in lime juice._ Mix with remaining ingredients until well blended.Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees._ Squeeze excess liquid from crab and place in mixing bowl._ Toss with oyster cracker crumbs and Old Bay Seasoning. In another bowl, mix mayonnaise with mustard and egg, and then combine with the crab mixture until well blended._ Divide mixture into twelve 1-inch-thick cakes.
Place cakes on buttered baking sheet and drizzle a few drops of butter over each._ Bake until golden brown, approximately 15 to 20 minutes._ Serve with Fulton's mustard sauce and lemon halves




Crab Cakes
LeCellier Steakhouse

3 1/4 pounds rock crab meat, picked clean
3/4 cup red and yellow bell peppers, fine diced
1/3 cup leeks, fine diced
3 1/4 tablespoons roasted garlic puree
3 1/4 tablespoons chives, finely cut
3/8 cup mayonnaise
1 5/8 tablespoons chervil, fine diced
3/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
3/4 ounce lemon juice, fresh
dash of tobacco
dash of Worcestershire sauce
as needed bread crumbs
to taste freshly ground black pepper
1 5/8 ounces pasteurized egg yolks

Squeeze liquid from crab meat and pick clean. Combine Garlic, Mayonnaise, lemon juice, Worcestershire, tobacco, chervil together, add to crab meat. Fold together. Add remaining ingredients, fold together thoroughly. Test crab cake (cook one) adjust bread crumbs as necessary, only as a binder, not to be used as a filler. (makes 10 servings)

 

[Snowwark]

Thank you very much Margie, they sound great!