Crab Cakes

Servings

Serving size

2 crab cakes

COOKING TIME

30 Minutes

This recipe can easily be multiplied. The uncooked crab cakes do not keep well past 24 hours. Cooked crab cakes will make good sandwiches the next day.

Serve with Roasted Potatoes or Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes or Roasted Corn on the Cob or Healthy French Fries or Yam Home Fries or Yam Home Fries – Low Sodium Version or Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes – Low Sodium Version

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Serve with Waldorf Salad or Roasted Beets or Roasted Acorn Squash or Pan Grilled Broccoli or Pan Grilled Asparagus or Herbed Zucchini

Serve with Yam Home Fries

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Serve with Low Sodium Plain Mashed Potatoes or Plain Mashed Potatoes or Roasted Potatoes or Yam Home Fries

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Serve with Pan Grilled Asparagus or Pan Grilled Broccoli

Ingredients

16 100 grams Crabmeat

1/3 cup Crackers, saltines, low salt

1/2 tsp. Tabasco sauce

2/3 tsp.. Worcestershire sauce

1 Tbsp Shallots, raw (minced)

2 tsp. Dijon mustard

1 large Egg white(s)

1 Medium stalk Celery, raw (diced)

1 Tbsp. Lemon juice

2 Tbsp. Reduced fat mayonnaise

1/8 tsp. Salt

1 to taste Black pepper

2 tsp. Olive oil

Instructions

Pick over crabmeat removing any shell.

Break the saltines into about 1/4 inch pieces.

Fold the crabmeat together with the crumbled saltines. Add Tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce, shallot, mustard, egg white, celery, lemon juice, mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

Fold together gently until well blended. Be careful to not break up the crabmeat too much.

Form into 8 cakes and chill. This can be made up to 12 hours in advance.

Preheat the oven to 400° F.

Place the oil in a large non-stick skillet over high heat until the oil is almost smoking.

Place cakes in the hot oil and cook over medium-high heat for about three minutes until brown. Turn and cook for about 2 minutes. Place in hot oven. Cook for another 9 - 10 minutes.

Serve this recipe with one of these Breakfast side dishes.

Yam Home Fries

Place a large skillet in the oven and preheat oven to 325°F. When the pan is hot, add the butter, shallot, and yams. Return the pan to the oven and cook for about ten minutes. Stir the yams and continue to roast in the oven stirring every 8 – 10…

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Serve this recipe with one of these starch side dishes.

Low Sodium Plain Mashed Potatoes

Place the water in a large stock pot over high heat. Quarter the potatoes and add to the stock pot. Cover with water by about an inch. Bring to boil and then reduce heat until the water is simmering. Cook the potatoes about 15 – 20 minutes until slightly soft…

Plain Mashed Potatoes

Roasted Potatoes

Preheat oven to 400° F. Place the water in a medium stock pot over high heat and bring to a boil. Add the potatoes and reduce the heat to medium-high. Simmer for 10 minutes and remove. Drain potatoes and let them cool slightly before cutting them into quarters. Place potatoes…

Yam Home Fries

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Serve this recipe with one of these vegetable side dishes.

Pan Grilled Asparagus

Cut the woody ends off the base of the asparagus spears. Heat 1 quart of water in a shallow pan over medium-high heat. The water should never come to a full boil. Place the asparagus in the water and cook for about 5 – 7 minutes until the spears begin…

Pan Grilled Broccoli

Trim the bottom inch of the stem from the broccoli. Using a vegetable peeler, peel the tough outer layer from the stems. Heat 1 quart of water in a large sauce pan or stock pot fitted with a steamer basket over high heat. When the water is boiling, add the…