If you're looking for a culinary experience that tantalizes your taste buds and transports you to a realm of pure delight, look no further than the exquisite combination of peekytoe crab toast and homemade aioli. This culinary masterpiece starts with succulent peekytoe crab, renowned for its delicate and subtly sweet flavor, carefully nestled atop toasted bread, creating a textural contrast that sets the stage for a harmonious symphony of flavors. The pièce de résistance, however, lies in the aioli, a luxurious and creamy sauce that elevates this dish to new heights of culinary excellence. With its origins in the vibrant region of Provence, France, aioli is a vibrant emulsion of garlic, olive oil, and egg yolks, boasting a rich and velvety texture that seamlessly complements the delicate sweetness of the crab.
Here are our top 13 tried and tested recipes!
CRAB TOAST WITH LEMON AIOLI
Provided by Jean Georges Vongerichten
Categories Lemon Crab Summer Bon Appétit
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Lemon Aioli:
- Whisk egg yolk, garlic, lemon zest and juice, mustard, and a large pinch of salt in a medium bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle in oil, drop by drop at first, until aioli is thickened and smooth; season with salt and more lemon juice, if desired.
- Crab Toast:
- Toss crabmeat, fennel fronds, 1 chile, and 2 tbsp oil in a medium bowl. Season with salt; add more chile, if desired.
- Drizzle both sides of bread with remaining 4 tbsp oil; working in batches, toast in a large skillet over medium-high heat until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side.
- Spread each piece of toast with 1 tbsp aioli. Top with crabmeat; cut each toast into 4 pieces. Place a small dab of aioli in center of each piece; serve with lemon wedges. (Extra aioli can be used for dressings or dips.)
PEEKYTOE CRAB TOAST
Peekytoe crab, so named because of its toelike leg tips, sits sweet and tender atop toasted bread in this recipe from chef Dan Kluger. Also try:Shaved Raw Summer Squash with Parmesan Dressing, Roasted Beets with Yogurt, Roasted Squash with Parmesan
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Appetizers
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a large bowl, combine crab meat, fennel fronds, serrano chile, 3 tablespoons olive oil, and salt; set aside.
- Drizzle bread with remaining 1/4 cup olive oil. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add bread and cook, turning once, until golden and crisp on each side.
- Remove bread from skillet and spread one side of each slice with aioli; top with crab mixture. Cut each slice of bread into quarters and top crab with a dollop of aioli. Serve immediately with lemon wedges.
CRAB TOAST WITH LEMON AIOLI
Categories Appetizer Cocktail Party Oscars New Year's Eve Crab Shower Party Lemon Juice Bon Appétit Sugar Conscious Pescatarian Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free
Yield Makes 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- For lemon aioli:
- Whisk egg yolk, garlic, lemon zest and juice, mustard, and a large pinch of salt in a medium bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle in oil, drop by drop at first, until aioli is thickened and smooth; season with salt and more lemon juice, if desired.
- DO AHEAD: Aioli can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
- For crab toast:
- Toss crabmeat, fennel fronds, 1 chile, and 2 tablespoons oil in a medium bowl. Season with salt; add more chile, if desired.
- Drizzle both sides of bread with remaining 4 tablespoons oil, and working in batches, toast in a large skillet over medium-high heat until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side.
- Spread each piece of toast with 1 tablespoon aioli. Top with crabmeat; cut each toast into 4 pieces. Place a small dab of aioli in center of each piece; serve with lemon wedges. (Extra aioli can be used for dressings or dips.)
- DO AHEAD: Crabmeat mixture can be made 2 days ahead. Cover and chill.
SPICY CRAB CAKES WITH LEMON AIOLI SAUCE
Provided by Patrick and Gina Neely : Food Network
Categories appetizer
Time 55m
Yield 4 to 5 servings
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- Heat a medium size pan over medium heat. Add the butter. Once melted add the shallot, 1 clove of garlic and red pepper. Lightly saute until tender, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- In a medium bowl, mix together mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, lemon zest, crab boil seasoning, fresh parsley, 1/2 cup of the panko and egg. Mix in cooked vegetables, hot sauce, and salt and pepper, to taste. Add crabmeat and stir well.
- Form crab cakes using about 2 tablespoons of crab mixture for each cake.. Flatten until they're about 3/4 inches high. Dip the cakes into the remaining panko.
- Add oil to a large skillet over high heat. Add crab cakes and saute, flipping once, until golden brown and crisp, about 5 to 6 minutes per side. Serve with Lemon Aioli.
- In a medium bowl, mix all the ingredients together.
AIOLI FOR PEEKYTOE CRAB TOAST
This aioli recipe adds garlicky flavor to chef Dan Kluger's Peekytoe Crab Toast.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Healthy Recipes Gluten-Free Recipes
Yield Makes about 1 1/2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Place mustard, garlic, lemon juice, and salt in the bowl of a food processor; process to combine. Add egg and, with the motor running, slowly add olive oil until mixture is thickened and emulsified. Aioli can be stored in an airtight container, refrigerated, for up to 2 days.
SOFTSHELL CRAB SANDWICH WITH TOASTED PAPRIKA AIOLI
Steps:
- Place the mayonnaise, garlic, toasted paprika, cayenne and lemon juice in a blender and blend until smooth. Preheat grill. Brush the crabs with the olive oil and season with salt and pepper to taste. Grill. Place 1 crab on each roll, spread with aioli and top with watercress.
TILAPIA-CRAB CAKES WITH ROASTED PEPPER AIOLI
These fluffy tilapia-crab cakes served with a roasted red pepper aioli make the perfect guilt-free seafood dinner that satisfies.
Provided by By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Categories Entree
Time 50m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Heat oven to 400°F. Spray large cookie sheet with cooking spray.
- In 10-inch skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Cook celery, onions, 1 clove garlic and the chile 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until celery is just tender. Remove from heat. Stir in 1/4 cup roasted peppers, the parsley and salt. Spoon into medium bowl.
- In food processor, place tilapia pieces. Cover; process with on-and-off pulses until coarsely chopped. Place in bowl with celery mixture. Add crabmeat, bread crumbs and egg product; stir gently until combined. Shape mixture by 1/3 cupfuls into 8 patties, about 1/2 inch thick. Place on cookie sheet. Spray tops of patties with cooking spray.
- Bake 18 to 20 minutes, turning once, until golden brown.
- Meanwhile, in small bowl, mix all aioli ingredients. Serve tilapia-crab cakes on mixed greens with aioli.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 Serving, TransFat 0 g
CRAB CAKES WITH LEMON GARLIC AIOLI SAUCE
My friend Kirsten shared this recipe for me when I needed a no-fail crab cake recipe for a holiday party. This was fantastic
Provided by Dine Dish
Categories Crab
Time 1h20m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Mix first 10 ingredients together, being careful to not overmix or break up the crab chunks.
- Dust a sheet pan or piece of tinfoil with flour. Carefully form little patties with the mixture and drop them onto the sheet pan or foil to dust with flour. Don't overhandle as the mixture will be very soft and wet. If the mixture is too wet, add more crumbs, or some flour.
- Meanwhile, melt butter into 2 tbs of the olive oil and heat a sauté pan to medium-high. Carefully drop cakes into pan with a spatula. Cook on one side until brown and crisp.
- Turn carefully, cook on the other side until brown and crisp and the inside of the cakes are cooked, about 2-3 minutes per side.
- Serve hot, topped with aioli and a few sliced green onions for garnish.
- For the sauce:.
- Mash garlic into a fine paste with the side of a knife on a cutting board, using salt as an abrasive. Mix all ingredients together. Serve with the crab cakes.
CRAB TOAST WITH LEMON AIOLI RECIPE - (4/5)
Provided by á-3151
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Whisk egg yolk, garlic, lemon zest and juice, mustard, and a large pinch of salt in a medium bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle in oil, drop by drop at first, until aioli is thickened and smooth; season with salt and more lemon juice, if desired. DO AHEAD: Aioli can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Toss crabmeat, fennel fronds, 1 chile, and 2 tablespoons oil in a medium bowl. Season with salt; add more chile, if desired. Drizzle both sides of bread with remaining 4 tablespoons oil, and working in batches, toast in a large skillet over medium-high heat until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side. Spread each piece of toast with 1 tablespoon aioli. Top with crabmeat; cut each toast into 4 pieces. Place a small dab of aioli in center of each piece; serve with lemon wedges. (Extra aioli can be used for dressings or dips.) DO AHEAD: Crabmeat mixture can be made 2 days ahead. Cover and chill.
AIOLI
This garlic mayonnaise is excellent with fish. Serve with grilled salmon, deep fried cod, or baked bass; it is good with these recipes and so many more. Vary the flavor by using olive oils from Greece, France, or Italy, but definitely choose an extra virgin olive oil. Do not store for more than a few hours.
Provided by Bob Cody
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes
Time 30m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- In a medium bowl, beat eggs well with a wire whisk. Stir in garlic. Gradually add oil in a thin stream, beating constantly until light and creamy. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in lemon juice. Refrigerate.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 178.5 calories, Carbohydrate 0.5 g, Cholesterol 34.1 mg, Fat 19.4 g, Protein 0.5 g, SaturatedFat 2.9 g, Sodium 1.5 mg
FIRECRACKER SHRIMP ROLL WITH CRAB AIOLI
Inspired by a shrimp po'boy with crab mayo seen on 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,' I decided to do an extra spicy version and give it a 4th of July-friendly name. The result is an explosively flavored combination of hot, crunchy shrimp and cold crabby mayo. This was one of the best things I've had in a long time, and that's after eating it barely warm; for best results, though, be sure to enjoy this just as soon as it's safe to eat, in all its crunchy glory.
Provided by Chef John
Categories Seafood Shellfish Crab
Time 45m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- Combine mayonnaise, crab, garlic, salt, cayenne, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, and tarragon in a bowl for the crab aioli. Stir to combine and refrigerate until needed.
- Remove tails from shrimp and keep chilled until ready to use.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Whisk buttermilk, hot sauce, chipotle pepper, cayenne, black pepper, and salt together in a bowl.
- Mix flour, cornmeal, paprika, and salt together in a shallow dish for the breading.
- Slice partway through each sandwich roll, splitting it open. Scoop out some bread from the top to make room for the filling.
- Toast rolls in the preheated oven until crisp, 7 to 10 minutes.
- Soak shrimp in the buttermilk mixture for about 5 minutes.
- Heat oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Spread crab aioli generously over both sides of each roll; top with sliced lettuce.
- Toss shrimp in the breading to coat; shake off any excess. Fry shrimp in the hot oil until golden brown and crispy, about 2 minutes per side. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate and immediately transfer shrimp onto the rolls. Sprinkle cayenne pepper on top.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 992.8 calories, Carbohydrate 73.5 g, Cholesterol 237.1 mg, Fat 60.8 g, Fiber 4.1 g, Protein 40.8 g, SaturatedFat 10 g, Sodium 2393.3 mg, Sugar 5.9 g
CRAB TOAST
Like the very best crab cakes on earth, which have as little dulling, distracting or deadening filler as possible, these crab toasts take that ethos to the extreme. There is no call for bell pepper or bread crumbs or diced celery; just the best fresh, sweet, saline crab meat you can buy, gently seasoned with a little lemon juice, bound with a tiny amount of tangy crème fraîche, then piled onto a slab of good toast, still warm. The toast is made ever so luxurious with a slathering of nutty brown butter mayonnaise. These two simple components - crab and brown butter toast - act in concert, and a glass of cold rosé to wash them down makes for the most exhilarating, satisfying spring supper imaginable.
Provided by Gabrielle Hamilton
Time 30m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- In a small sauce pot, brown the butter over medium heat, swirling the pot, until the butter is caramel-colored and has a nutty fragrance, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, scraping up all the milk solids from the bottom and sides of the pot while the butter is still hot, and let cool to room temperature.
- Place the egg and egg yolk, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, a healthy pinch of salt and 1 tablespoon cold water in the bowl of a food processor. With the processor running, slowly drizzle in the grapeseed oil. Once all the oil has been added, the mayonnaise should be loose yet emulsified. While the processor is still running, slowly drizzle in the brown butter and any toasted milk solids. Season to taste with salt and set aside.
- For the crab salad, gently and quickly mix crab meat, olive oil, chives, crème fraîche and remaining 1 teaspoon lemon juice together in a bowl. Season to taste with salt.
- Schmear each piece of toasted bread with the brown butter mayonnaise evenly - as we like to say, "wall to wall." Divide the crab mixture among the slices, piling it evenly on top.
CRAB CAKES WITH GARLIC AIOLI RECIPE - (4.5/5)
Provided by henwiller
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Cook's note: If you follow the recipe completely, they turn out rather soupy and hard to work with. I've adapted the recipe to what I did to make it not so soupy) Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese in medium bowl until smooth. Add 1/4 cup Parmesan and egg; beat to blend. Beat in sour cream, lemon peels, 4 teaspoons chopped chives, coarse salt, and cayenne pepper. Fold in crabmeat and 1/2 cup of panko. This can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Toss remaining panko, 1/2 cup Parmesan, and 2 tablespoons chopped chives in small bowl. Drizzle 1/4 cup melted butter over, tossing with fork until evenly moistened. Roll 1 rounded tablespoon portions of of the chilled crab mixture in the panko-Parmesan mixture, and pan-fry the crab cakes in a skillet of melted butter set over medium-high heat. This aioli is amazing. I can only imagine the endless possibilities of what you can spread this on. It makes quite a bit, so feel free to half accordingly. Mince garlic and make into paste using the side of your knife. Hint: to make this go faster add a bit of salt to the garlic and continue mashing with the side of your knife. Place the paste in a large bowl and add: the sour cream, mayonnaise, lemon juice, and oil. Season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Fold in the chives. Give it a final taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary.
Tips:
- Use the freshest ingredients possible. This will ensure that your aioli is flavorful and delicious.
- Make sure your garlic is minced very finely. This will help it to distribute evenly throughout the aioli.
- Use a good quality olive oil. This will give your aioli a rich, creamy flavor.
- Season your aioli to taste. You may want to add more lemon juice, salt, or pepper.
- Serve your aioli immediately or store it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Conclusion:
Aioli is a versatile sauce that can be used to enhance the flavor of a variety of dishes. It is especially delicious served with seafood, such as peekytoe crab toast. Whether you are making aioli for a special occasion or just for a weeknight meal, be sure to follow these tips to ensure that it is flavorful and delicious.
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