Seared Maryland Crab Cakes Recipes

MARYLAND CRAB CAKES RECIPE (LITTLE FILLER)

Steps:

• Whisk the egg, mayonnaise, parsley, dijon mustard, worcestershire sauce, Old Bay, lemon juice, and salt together in a large bowl. Place the crab meat on top, followed by the cracker crumbs. With a rubber spatula or large spoon, very gently and carefully fold together. You don't want to break up that crab meat!
• Cover tightly and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 day.
• Preheat oven to 450°F (232°C). Generously grease a rimmed baking sheet with butter or nonstick spray or line with a silicone baking mat.
• Using a 1/2 cup measuring cup, portion the crab cake mixture into 6 mounds on the baking sheet. (Don't flatten!) Use your hands or a spoon to compact each individual mound so there aren't any lumps sticking out or falling apart. For extra flavor, brush each with melted butter. This is optional but recommended!
• Bake for 12-14 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges and on top. Drizzle each with fresh lemon juice and serve warm.
• Cover leftover crab cakes tightly and refrigerate for up to 5 days or freeze for up to 3 months.

MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Process crackers in food processor until finely ground.
• Dry crabmeat well with paper towels.
• Using rubber spatula, gently combine crabmeat, 1/4 c cracker crumbs, scallions, melted butter, mayonnaise, egg yolk, mustard hot sauce and Old Bay in a large bowl.
• Divide mixture into 4 equal portions and shape into tight, mounded cakes. Press top of each cake in remaining crumbs.
• Transfer crumb side down to a large plate and refrigerate, covered, for at least 1 hour, or up to 8 hours.
• Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat broiler. Grease an 8" square area in center of rimmed baking sheet with softened butter.
• Transfer crab cakes to prepared baking sheet, crumb side down. Broil until crab cakes are golden brown, 12-15 minutes.
• Serve with lemon wedges.

MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Mix together eggs, mayo, OLD BAY, pepper, worcestershire sauce, and mustard, until creamy.
• Add bread crumbs, mixing evenly.
• Add in the crab meat, being sure to mix evenly.
• Shape into cakes.
• Makes 6 large or 9 medium crabcakes.
• Saute in pan with a little oil for about 5 minutes on each side.
• You can also broil them until brown. This may require you to flip them, depending on your pan.
• Serve with tartar sauce and lemon.
• Tip: Try a crabcake sandwich. I use a Martin's Brand potato roll topped with tartar sauce and crisp lettuce.

SEARED MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Place bread in bowl and cover with milk. Let stand 5 minutes.
• Squeeze out excess milk from bread and place in clean bowl. Add remaining ingredients to the bread mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate 2 hours.
• Shape mixture into thick pancakes. Cook in hot oil over medium heat , about 4 or 5 minutes or until nicely browned.
• Serve with fresh lemon.
• I place them on a paper towel for 1 minute to take away any extra oil.

PERFECT MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Trim the crusts from the bread; discard, or reserve for another use. Tear the remaining bread into little pieces (about 20 pieces per slice); handle the bread lightly, so the pieces remain fluffy and don't flatten out. Place the bread pieces in a bowl, and sprinkle them with the wine; toss lightly to distribute the wine evenly.
• Pick over the backfin and the jumbo lump crabmeat to remove any bits of shell. In a large mixing bowl, toss together the backfin and jumbo lump crabmeat. Season to taste with salt and with Maryland crab seasoning. Add the soaked bread, beaten eggs, lemon juice, and melted butter; toss lightly, making sure to keep the crab lumps whole. Add the mayonnaise, and toss the mixture gently with your hands, distributing the mayonnaise evenly. Taste again for seasoning, if desired (if you don't want to taste raw egg, you can saute a bit of the mixture in butter). For even better flavor, allow the mixture to sit in the refrigerator for a few hours.
• When you are ready to cook, place a large, heavy-bottomed saute pan over medium-high heat; the pan should have enough room for 3 crab cakes. Add enough lard and vegetable oil (in fifty-fifty production) to create a 1-inch depth of oil. When the oil is medium-hot, quickly shape 1/2 the crab mixture with your hands into 3 cakes, each roughly the size and shape of a large hamburger. Gently place the cakes in the oil, making sure to preserve their shapes. Fry for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the cakes are golden on one side. Flip them carefully with a spatula, and fry on the other side for 3 to 4 minutes. After about 8 minutes, the cakes should be golden brown on all sides and heated through (you want the pieces of bread inside to virtually disappear). Remove the cakes from the pan, and place them on paper towels. Repeat and make 3 more cakes with the remaining mixture.

THE DRUNK CHEF'S HOMETOWN MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Make these patties 1/2 hour to 1 hour before you want to cook them and let them set up in the fridge covered with a piece of plastic wrap.
• Note that the dried slices of bread ARE going into the mix while the bread crumbs ARE NOT. Right before frying- coat the cakes lightly with the breadcrumbs on each side.
• Gather all your ingredients and 2 large mixing bowls. If you have a large wooden spoon- use that; if not- put it on your shopping list. Mince your onion and chop your parsley. Chop your sliced bread up in small cubes. Beat your egg. Chop your claw meat into 1 square centimeter cubes (or just tear into pieces).
• In one bowl: mix onion, bread, and milk. Then add: mayo, dijon, worcestershire sauce, egg. Mix well.
• Make sure there's no moisture in your second bowl so the seasonings don't stick. In your second bowl: Place your crab meat in bowl. Season evenly with the black pepper, parsley, and Old Bay seasoning.
• Add the seasoned crab meat to the mixture in the first bowl and mix together gently. You paid extra for those big claw portions so don't go smashing them all up when your mixing.
• Form the mixture into crab cakes as big or as small as you like them and place them on something flat that can fit in the fridge ( I use a hard plastic cutting board). Spray the cutting board very lightly with cooking spray to keep the cakes from sticking while in the fridge. Cover with plastic and put in fridge for 1/2 - 1 hour.
• If you are frying your cakes (recommended) I would use Canola Oil in your pan. If you are broiling- I recommend coating the baking sheet with Olive Oil and also drizzling just a little Olive Oil over the tops of your cakes.
• Pour your breadcrumbs on a dinner plate and coat each side of your crab cakes lightly with them.
• Heat the Canola Oil in your pan over a medium-high heat. When the oil starts putting off a little smoke it should be ready. You want to hear a little sizzle when you drop your crab cakes in the pan- that's how you know your oil is at a good frying temperature.
• Once you have your crab cakes in the pan- give them a minute to just sit- undisturbed. After about a minute- gently start shaking your pan- you want to see some movement in the pan to ensure they're not burning. Make sure they're not cooking too fast- if you start to smell a burn coming on- lift the pan off the heat and flip the cakes- reduce heat and return pan to stove.
• The method I use for cooking a perfect crab cake is simple- my fingers. Tilt your pan just enough to move the oil down to one side of the pan- feel around the bottom of one of the cakes at the top of the pan. The cakes are ready to be flipped when they begin to crisp around the bottom edges. If you have more sensitive fingers (like normal people) just simply use a slotted spatula to lift the cakes out of the pan and look at the bottom of the cake- when it's nice and golden-brown you can flip them.
• Don't depend on a timer to cook when pan frying because that's not always reliable. Use your eyes and your fingers.
• Take a big dollop of Tar Tar sauce in the middle of a plate. Take a spoon and push down in the middle of the dollop and lightly spread in circles to make a perfect little bed for your crab cake. Place your crab cake on its bed and serve with your favorite sides.
• I'll add a recipe for Tar Tar sauce sometime soon. For now- just use your favorite.

BASIC MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Pick through crab meat for any leftover pieces of shell.
• Lightly beat egg in medium bowl.
• Add all seasonings to egg and mix well.
• Add bread cubes to mixture and mix well.
• Gently fold crab meat into mixture.
• Shape into crab cakes.
• If using oil, heat oil.
• Pan fry until both sides are evenly done.
• Serve plain or with lemon juice or tartar sauce.

MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together in a mixing bowl and form into hamburger shaped patties.
• Broil in oven, turning once until golden brown on both sides.
• Garnish with lemon wedges and serve with tartar sauce or seafood sauce.

MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Gently mix, by hand, crabmeat, scallions, herb, Old Bay, bread crumbs, and mayonnaise in medium bowl, being careful not to break up crab lumps. Season with salt and white pepper to taste. Carefully fold in egg with rubber spatula until mixture just clings together.
• Divide crab mixture into four portions and shape each into a fat, round cake, about 3 inches across and 1 1/2-inches high. Arrange on baking sheet lined with waxed paper; cover with plastic wrap and chill at least 30 minutes. (Can refrigerate up to 24 hours.).
• Put flour on plate or in pie tin. Lightly dredge crab cakes. Heat oil in large, preferably nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking. Gently lay chilled crab cakes in skillet; pan-fry until outsides are crisp and browned, 4 to 5 minutes per side. Serve hot,.
• Chef's Notes.
• Use a *very* delicate hand when mixing. You don't want to break up the crab meat.
• Use the bare minimum of filler necessary to just hold the cakes together. These are Crab Cakes, not crab flavoured bread cakes!
• You can broil them rather than fry. In that case, omit the flour dusting. Be very careful when turning. You don't want them to fall apart.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, Hand pick Crabmeat and discard any shell particles.
• Add Salt and Pepper (You can alter to taste but for best results don't.
• alter the Pepper.) In another bowl mix all wet ingredients. Gently fold.
• mixture into crabmeat. Add baking powder, and parsley. On a plate,
• place your crushed saltines and scoop a medium sized crab cake from.
• your mixture in your hands. Coat with cracker again just enough to cover.
• your cake. In a skillet heat Vegtable Oil for frying (preferably cast iron pan).
• gently place crab cakes in frying temperature oil and brown evenly on both sides. Be careful that your oil is not to hot and should not be smoking.
• Crab Cakes are ready when brown on both sides usuallly a few minutes per side. DO NOT overcook. Drain on paper towels, and serve immediately.