this recipes is slightly modified from Martha Stewart’s Hors D’oeuvres Handbook.  I love the recipe.  sounds complicated seeing all the ingredients, but it is super simple.  all you have to do is mix all the ingredients, make round cakes, pan fry lightly and bake.

Ingredients

6oz (168g) crab meat, picked over for cartilage

2/3 slice of julienne’s bakery sourdough bread, broken into very small crumbs

1/2t (2g) Worcestershire sauce

1t (1.8g) Old Bay seasoning

1.5T (3.5g) finely chopped fresh cilantro

1/2 (25g) egg, lightly beaten

1/2 (15g) sharllot, minced

1T (15g) mayonnaise

lemon zest of 1/2 lemon

fresh ground black pepper

2T (28g) canola oil for frying

optional:  1t (5g) Dijon mustard

Directions

Mix the crab meat and the bread crumbs.  Set aside.

Mix rest of the ingredients well.  Add to crab meat and stir.  season with pepper to taste.

shape about 1.5T of the mixture into round disks, to make 12.

Heat 1T of Canola oil in a skillet and place 6 of the rounds and cook until golden brown on the bottom, about 1 minute,  Turn the crab cakes and cook until golden brown.  Transfer the crab cakes to parchment paper lined baking sheet.  Repeat for the remaining 6 crab cakes.  All the oil in the skillet should be absorbed by the cakes.

Preheat the oven to 400F.  Bake the crab cakes for 10 minutes.

Serve warm.

Notes

makes about 12

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