Crab Cakes with Horseradish Cream

Hearty crab cake recipe perfect for appetizers or served for brunch or lunch with clam chowder. Cakes are topped with a gracious serving of tangy horseradish sauce.
Ingredients -
 
1/2 cup Sour Cream
1/2 cup Mayonnaise
2 tablespoons bottled Horseradish, drained
1 pound Lump Crabmeat, picked free of shell
1 cup Dry Bread Crumbs
3 Scallions, including green ends, chopped
1/4 cup chopped Fresh Parsley
pinch Cayenne Pepper
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Fresh Ground Black Pepper
3 tablespoons Cooking Oil
 
Preparation:
 

1. Mix the sour cream, half the mayonnaise, and the horseradish.

2. In medium mixing bowl, mix the crabmeat, half the mayonnaise, ¼ cup breadcrumbs, scallions, parsley, cayenne, salt and pepper.

3. Make 8 crab crab cakes of equal size.

4. Dust the crab cakes with the remaining breadcrumbs, carefully removing any excess.

5. Heat oil over medium heat in a large saute pan.

6. Saute crab cakes 4 at a time until golden brown, approximately 3 minutes.

7. Carefully flip crab cakes over and saute other side for 3 minutes.

8. Remove crab cakes from saute pan and allow to drain on paper towels.

9. Serve crab cakes with horseradish sauce.

 
Variations and Recipe Ideas:
 
 
 



Cooking Tip

Crab Cake Sandwich
Crab cakes with horseradish cream makes a great open faced sandwich. Serve on your favorite crunchy bread, and place next to next to a beutiful slice of quiche, or a couple eggs, sunny side up.

Cooking Tip

Cayenne Pepper
Cayenne pepper is failry mild, you can substitute paprika, hot sauce, crushed red pepper flakes, serrano or jalapeno peppers, depending on how much hot spice you want your cakes to have.


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