How to Make Crab Cakes

Maryland is famous for being the home of all the best recipes for crab cakes. Make your own at home with this simple recipe for delicious crab cakes.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 pound crabmeat
• 1 1/2 tablespoons bread crumbs
• 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1/2 teaspoon ground dry mustard
• 1 dash hot pepper sauce
• Hot pepper sauce
• Ground dry mustard
• Egg
• Pepper
• Mayonnaise
• Fresh crab meat
• Bread crumbs
• Fresh parsley
• Salt

1. Preheat your oven on the broiler setting.

2. Lightly mix the dry ingredients.

3. Beat together the wet ingredients.

4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients-do not over-mix or beat the mixture.

5. Shape the mixture into 4 cakes.

6. Place the cakes on a greased baking sheet.

7. Broil for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown.

Tips & Warnings

• Add Old Bay seasoning to taste if you can find it-this is traditionally used in most Maryland crab cake recipes.
• The crab meat mixture is supposed to stay slightly lumpy-if you over-mix, you'll break up the lumps of crab meat.

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[patriot9878]

on 6/17/2009 Of course I left out the one egg at top

[patriot9878]

on 6/17/2009 One pound of crab meat. One half pack of saltine crackers. one ounce of mustard and one ounce of miracle whip. Two tablespoons of Worstershire sauce. crush the crackers into very small pieces mix all ingredients together. This should make you 6 hamburger size crab cakes. Fry them in cast iron frying pan with some Olive oil. Fry them 7 or 8 minutes on each side.