Welcome to the world of culinary delights, where two seafood treasures, shrimp and crab, come together in perfect harmony to create the unforgettable "company shrimp and crab cakes". This dish is an exquisite blend of flavors and textures, sure to impress your friends and family. Whether you're hosting a dinner party or simply seeking a special treat for yourself, these crab cakes will tantalize your taste buds and leave you craving more.
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COMPANY SHRIMP-AND-CRAB CAKES
The addition of shrimp gives crab cakes a new flavor. Using panko instead of flour makes the prep easier, plus the cakes stay together without tasting doughy. I love these crab cakes served with mango salsa! -Regina Reynolds, Struthers, Ohio
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 25m
Yield 6 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- In a large bowl, combine the first 6 ingredients. Fold in crab and shrimp. Shape into 12 patties; coat with panko bread crumbs., In a large skillet over medium heat, cook crab cakes in oil in batches until golden brown, 3-4 minutes on each side. , Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the sauce ingredients. Serve with crab cakes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 355 calories, Fat 26g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 143mg cholesterol, Sodium 462mg sodium, Carbohydrate 11g carbohydrate (4g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 18g protein.
SHRIMP AND CRAB CAKES
Provided by Michael Chiarello : Food Network
Categories appetizer
Time 1h45m
Yield 34 (2-inch) cakes
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- Roughly chop the raw shrimp and place in a large bowl.
- In a small bowl, whip the egg whites with a fork until frothy. Stir in the cream, salt, pepper, and cumin seeds. Combine with chopped shrimp. Mix well with the jicama, green onion, cilantro, ginger, and kaffir lime leaves.
- Press any excess moisture out of the crab meat in a colander. Combine the crab with the shrimp mixture.
- Pour the panko into a wide, shallow dish. Scoop out a heaping tablespoon of the shrimp and crab mixture and drop it into the panko. Using your hands, shape the shrimp and crab mixture into round cakes and evenly coat with the panko. Repeat with the remaining mixture and place the crab cakes on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Refrigerate for 30 minutes until firm.
- Heat a deep fryer to 350 degrees F or heat 3/4-inch of vegetable oil in a skillet over medium heat, just until the surface of the oil begins to gently ripple. Fry the crab cakes, a few at a time, until crispy and golden, about 2 minutes per side. Remove from the hot oil with a slotted spoon or spider and place on absorbent paper to absorb any excess oil.
- Serve with Ginger-Lime Dipping Sauce on the side.
- Put sugar, water, ginger, and salt in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Bring to a boil, then lower heat and reduce to a syrupy consistency (about 15 minutes). Strain through a fine sieve, discard ginger, reserve liquid, and let cool.
- In a small food processor, pulse cilantro, lime juice, chile, and green onion (about 30 seconds). Add ginger syrup and pulse until combined.
- Serve at room temperature.
LINDA'S CRAB AND SHRIMP CAKES
Flavorful seafood cakes made with crab and shrimp. Serve with a lemon-dill aioli.
Provided by Linda F. Bergfeld
Categories Main Dish Recipes Seafood Main Dish Recipes Crab
Time 1h5m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Combine bread crumbs, mayonnaise, eggs, mustard, capers and brine, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, dill, Creole seasoning, garlic, salt, pepper, and garlic powder in a bowl; mix until well combined.
- Combine crabmeat and shrimp in a small bowl. Fold into the mayonnaise mixture until well blended. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Remove from the refrigerator and form into 12 patties.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook seafood patties in batches in the hot oil, until browned, 5 to 6 minutes per side. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and repeat with remaining patties, adding more oil if needed.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 522.9 calories, Carbohydrate 22.8 g, Cholesterol 153.7 mg, Fat 37.9 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 22.9 g, SaturatedFat 5.4 g, Sodium 1241.1 mg, Sugar 1.7 g
SHRIMP AND CRAB CAKES WITH WASABI MAYONNAISE
Steps:
- 1. Whisk the egg with the scallion whites, ginger, soy sauce and 3 tablespoons of the mayonnaise in a large bowl. Finley grate the zest and add it and the juice from 1/2 the lime to the mixture. (Cut the remaining 1/2 lime in wedges and reserve for serving.) Fold the crabmeat, shrimp, and 4 tablespoons of the panko into the mixture and season with pepper.
- 2. Put some panko in a shallow bowl for breading. Divide the crab mixture evenly into 4 patties, about 3 inches in diameter. Coat each patty all over with the panko, transfer to a plate and refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
- 3. Meanwhile, put the wasabi powder in a small bowl, stir in 2 tablespoons water and let stand for 5 minutes. Stir in 2 tablespoons mayonnaise. (This should be the consistency of heavy cream.) Set aside.
- 4. Preheat the oven to 375 F.
- 5. Heat the oil in a large oven-safe nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Add the crab cakes and cook until light brown and crisp, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake the crab cakes until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F inside, 8 to 10 minutes.
- 6. Drain on paper towels. Serve the crab cakes on a bed of sprouts if desired, top with the scallion greens, wasabi mayonnaise and lime wedges.
- From Food Network Kitchen: This recipe has been updated and may differ from what was originally published or broadcast.
CRAB CAKES
Mace, nutmeg's peppery sister, is what makes the difference in these crab cakes. The recipe, adapted from "Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes From the Matriarch of Edisto Island," comes from Emily Meggett, one of the most well-respected cooks in the Gullah Geechee community, whose food traditions are built largely on the crabs, shrimp and fish they pull from the water near their homes along the southeastern shoreline. She has made thousands of these using freshly cooked blue crabs, but meat that has already been picked and processed works as well. Be sparing with the bread crumbs, which should just hold the mixture together, then add more if the cakes are falling apart. Make sure the pan is very hot, then reduce the heat the minute they hit the oil. Keep a close eye while they brown. These are lovely bites to start a meal, or can star as supper, alongside rice and fresh vegetables. Ms. Meggett serves them with what she calls pink sauce, which is similar to this sauce, with the addition of grated onion and lemon.
Provided by Kim Severson
Categories dinner, seafood, appetizer, main course
Time 1h30m
Yield About 12 large crab cakes
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Heat the broiler to 500 degrees (or its highest setting). On your oven's highest rack, broil all the bread slices on a baking sheet for 2 to 3 minutes, or until golden and crisp but not burned. Flip all the slices over and broil for another 2 to 3 minutes. Turn the broiler off and allow the bread to crisp in the oven until totally dry, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Remove the bread from the oven and let cool. Using a box grater or rolling pin, coarsely grate and crush the bread slices into bread crumbs (or, pulse them in a food processor). The crumbs should look and feel like sand; you should get about 4 cups. Set the bread crumbs aside.
- In a large cast-iron skillet, melt the butter over high heat. Once the butter is melted, add the onion and cook, stirring often, until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Pour the butter and onion into a large bowl. Whisk the flour into the melted butter and onion, then slowly whisk in the milk to make a creamy sauce. Once the sauce is smooth, whisk in the eggs, lemon juice, vinegar and mace.
- Add the crab meat to the cream sauce and mix lightly with a fork; don't break up the pieces of crab meat. Gently fold in just enough of the bread crumbs so that the mixture holds together (about 2 1/2 cups). Divide the crab mixture into 12 equal portions, setting them on a baking sheet as you go. They should be thick rounds - about the size of the palm of your hand, and roughly 1 1/2 inches thick.
- Using your hand, take a scoop of the toasted bread crumbs and coat each crab cake.
- Wipe out the skillet and heat the oil over high. Once the oil is hot, place a few of the crab cakes in the skillet. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 3 to 5 minutes on each side, or until browned and cooked through. Place the cooked crab cakes on a paper towel to drain. Working in batches, cook the remaining crab cakes, adding more oil as needed.
- Serve crab cakes immediately, or set aside in a warm oven (see Tip) while you cook the remaining crab cakes.
EASY SHRIMP AND CRAB CAKES
Make and share this Easy Shrimp and Crab Cakes recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Tresa H.
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 35m
Yield 12 cakes, 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Mix butter, cheese, mayo, garlic powder, jalapeno and Old Bay together.
- Add crab and shrimp.
- Spread onto muffins (I use quite a bit).
- Freeze on cookie sheet. When frozen put in zip-lock baggies.
- Bake frozen in 400 degree oven for 12 minutes.
- Broil on low for 3 to 5 minutes until browned on top.
- Cut into fourths, serve with my sauce, cocktail or tarter sauce.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 361.7, Fat 16.5, SaturatedFat 6.5, Cholesterol 105.6, Sodium 709.1, Carbohydrate 31.2, Fiber 2.1, Sugar 3.6, Protein 22
CRAB CAKES WITH SHRIMP SAUCE (BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS)
This recipe was featured on week 37 of my food blog, "Travel by Stove." I am attempting to cook one meal from every nation on Earth, and the British Virgin Islands is my 37th stop. Unless otherwise noted, my Travel by Stove recipes are taken from authentic or traditional sources, and this recipe has been posted without any alternations or additions to the ingredients. This recipe originally appeared in The Sugar Mill Caribbean Cookbook.
Provided by GiddyUpGo
Categories Crab
Time 20m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Finely mince the shrimp and set aside, reserving the.
- Heat the oil in a small saucepan over medium heat, then saute the shrimp shells with the garlic and shallots.
- When the shells turn pink, add the paprika and the sherry. Continue to cook until the sherry has reduced by half (this won't take very long).
- Strain the mixture, and return the liquid to the pan. Add the diced shrimp and the heavy cream. Keep cooking until the sauce thickens (it should coat the back of your spoon). Season with salt and pepper and keep warm.
- Put the breadcrumbs and crab meat into a medium sized bowl and set aside. With your mixer, beat the egg whites until you get stiff peaks, then fold into the crab mixture.
- Gently add the peppers, yolks, Caribbean seasoning, Worcestershire and Tabasco sauces.
- Form the crab mixture into small cakes (you should get six to eight from this recipe) and dust with flour.
- Fry in the remaining 1 tbsp butter. When they are golden brown, flip and continue to fry until the other side is also golden brown.
- To serve, pour the shrimp sauce over.
Tips:
- Use fresh seafood: The fresher the seafood, the better your shrimp and crab cakes will taste. If you can, buy your seafood from a reputable fishmonger or seafood market.
- Don't overmix the ingredients: Overmixing the ingredients can make your shrimp and crab cakes tough. Mix them just until they are combined.
- Use panko breadcrumbs: Panko breadcrumbs are lighter and airier than regular breadcrumbs, which will give your shrimp and crab cakes a crispy exterior and a tender interior.
- Season the shrimp and crab cakes well: Don't be afraid to season your shrimp and crab cakes liberally. Use a variety of seasonings, such as Old Bay seasoning, paprika, garlic powder, and onion powder.
- Cook the shrimp and crab cakes over medium heat: Cooking the shrimp and crab cakes over medium heat will help them cook evenly and prevent them from burning.
- Serve the shrimp and crab cakes with your favorite dipping sauce: Some popular dipping sauces for shrimp and crab cakes include tartar sauce, cocktail sauce, and remoulade sauce.
Conclusion:
Shrimp and crab cakes are a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed as an appetizer, main course, or snack. They are easy to make and can be customized to your liking. With a little practice, you can make shrimp and crab cakes that are sure to impress your friends and family.
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