JEN'S BEST CRAB CAKES

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Categories     Cake     Shellfish     Bake     Fourth of July

Yield 4-6 people

Number Of Ingredients 13

1# backfin otjumbo lump crab m€at
4 saltin€ crackers. crumbled
1 T, fresh minced parsley
1/2t . Worcest€rchires auce
2-3 shakes of Tabasco sauce
1 egg, beaten
I cup mayonnaisod, ividod
112t Old Bay seasoning
1/2 t. salt
t/8 t. cracked pepper
paprika
fresh par3ley sprigs
1 lemon, $liced for garnish

Steps:

  • Put the crab meat in a mixing bowl and gently pick through crab to romovo all pi€cas of lholl. Do not break apart ths lumps of crab. In a glass msaauring containor, combine the mayonaise and the ogg. llir thom togother thoroughly. Add the Worc€tershire and the Tabasco sauce.. Itix thi6 together thoroughly with the egg and mayonaiae. Placo tho crackers in a "Ziploc" bag, close it and hit the crackers with the handle part of a knife until they are lino particles. Add thb to the crab moat. Then add ths other dry ingr€di€nts, parsley, Old Bay soasoning, salt and peppor, Add about 3/4's of the mayonaiso mixturo. Gontly fold all of thb togothor. DO NOT OVERMIXI Formt his mixture into five cakes.D O NOTF LATTENT HEC RAB CAKES BUT RATHER MAKE THElll INTO BALLS and place on a foiF covered cookie eheet. Sproad an 6qual portion of the reaeryod mayonnabe on the crab cakes. Sprinkle with papriks. Place the cookie sheet in the rofrigerator for about a 1/2 hour or so to allow the crab cakes to sot up. Bake in a prehoated 35odogroo oven for 20 minutos or until golden brown. DO NOTO VERBAKEG! amishw ith parsleya nd lemon. Serves 46.

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