Learn how to make crab cakes easily with this American recipe. Whether or not you hail from Maryland, you can master this delicacy quickly and easily.
Recipe Ingredients
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
½ teaspoon of paprika
Some cayenne pepper
Some onion powder
Some olive oil or butter
1 lb. of crab meat
An beaten egg
½ a cup of crushed saltines
1/3 cups of fresh and minced parsley
Recipe Preparation
To
begin, remove the shell from the crab. Then put it in a medium bowl and
add the crushed Saltine cracker crumbs, mayonnaise, egg and parsley
until it becomes moistened. Do remember not to over mix.
Once
that is done add the pepper and salt and then form about 5 to 6 cakes
that measure ½ to ¾ inches in thickness. Now place these crab cakes on
a cookie sheer and put it into the refrigerator an hour. After that
sprinkle some cayenne pepper and onion powder over the cakes.
Next
take a heavy skillet and put some butter or olive oil in it. Once it is
hot, fry the crab cakes in it. Turn the cakes once so that both the
sides turn brown in color.