Crab Cakes with Chipotle Mayonnaise

Crab Cakes have been on my “to make” list for a long time. Living in WI, we don’t have an overabundance of crab meat available. Often times you can only find crab legs, crab meat or lobster in grocery stores around the holidays. That being said, we wanted to make crab cakes with as fresh as possible crab meat and we wanted to make crab cakes as ‘authentic’ as possible. We searched high and low and in the end,  we decided to order crab meat online. It was a little pricey but well worth it. Sometimes you just need to splurge. The crab we ordered from Linton’s Seafood was clean, sweet, delicious and perfect for making crab cakes.

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Next Alligator

Serve these delicious Crab Cakes with a smoky, spicy, chipotle mayonnaise. Recipe follows. Next on our agenda, we are looking into buying alligator meat. More than likely we will also be buying alligator meat online. Not many alligator roaming around the woods of Wisconsin! If you know of a good company to order alligator meat online, let us know in the comment section below. Thanks in advance~




Crab Cakes

 

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons
    mayonnaise
  • 2 teaspoons
    Dijon mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon
    kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon
    freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon seafood seasoning (Old Bay)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 2 large
    eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 pound
    lump crabmeat, picked
  • 2/3 cup
    panko
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped
    fresh flat-leaf parsley
  • 3 tablespoons
    butter, soften

Cooking Directions

  1. Whisk together first 7 ingredients in a bowl. Gently stir in crab, panko, and parsley. Shape mixture into 12 (3-inch) patties, pressing gently to flatten. Place patties on a baking sheet; cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour.
  2.  Melt 1 1/2 tablespoons butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 6 patties to pan; cook 5 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Remove crab cakes from pan; repeat with remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons butter and remaining 6 patties.

Chipotle Mayonnaise

 

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup
    mayonnaise
  • 1
    chipotle chile in adobo, seeded and minced
  • 1 tablespoon
    fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon
    seafood seasoning
  • 1 teaspoon
    Dijon mustard
  • salt and pepper,
    to taste
  • 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

Cooking Directions

  1. In a small bowl, whisk all ingredients together.
  2. Store in the refrigerator until needed.