Crab Cakes


 

 

crab cakes

These crab cakes are very delicious and something you would eat at a fancy restaurant. Well … did you know that they can be easily made in your own kitchen? These crab cakes are perfect for dinner with Valentines Day just around the corner. There is alot of different sauce that will be good with them, this is one of my favorites, and this beurre blanc sauce will go well with it as well.

 

Ingredients:

24 ounces lump crab meat

1/2 onion finely chopped

1 egg

1/2 cup mayo

1/2 cup breadcrumbs

1 teaspoon old bay seasoning

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

2 teaspoons dijon mustard

4 dashes of hot sauce (I used Trader Joes one)

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon butter to saute onion

panko crumbs

optional: shredded cabbage

diced fire roasted peppers

alfa alfa sprouts or any other type.

oil for frying

 

Sauce:

1/2 cup mayo

1/3 cup fire roasted red peppers diced

2 tablespoons capers

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 teaspoon hot sauce

1 tablespoon fresh dill finely chopped

1 tablespoon ketchup

1 tablespoon dijon mustard

season with salt

Directions:

Sauce-

Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.

Crab Cakes-

saute onions in butter until lightly browned and soft.

Drain and squeeze all liquid from crab, place it in a mixing bowl.

Whisk  together mayo,egg,mustard,salt,hot sauce,old bay seasoning ,Worcestershire sauce. Add it to crab.

Add sautéed onions to bowl with crab.Add breadcrumbs.Mix all together.

Form crab mixture in to 8-10 patties. Coat with panko crumbs on both sides.

Heat a frying on medium heat. Add oil. Fry crab cakes on both sides and transfer to a plate when done.

To plate and serve as pictured above, mix cabbage with sprouts,red peppers, salt, and squeeze of lemon juice.

Place cabbage mix on bottom of plate. Arrange crab cake on top and pour over with sauce on top.

 

 




Fish with Orange Beurre Blanc Sauce


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Want a fancy restaurant style dish in under 30 minutes? Well..this is it! Fish with orange beurre blanc sauce is perfect and easy seafood dish. The sauce is velvety smooth and will go great with different types fish, shrimp, scallops, and lobster.

Beurre blanc sauce is a french specialty sauce made with reduction of orange juice,white wine, and shallots. Then cold butter pieces are blended to create a smooth buttery sauce.

In this recipe I used fresh wild salmon seasoned with salt and pepper, then pan seared to perfection. Served with fried yellow potato rounds, sauteed spinach with crispy turkey bacon and crispy onion string pieces.

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Ingredients for beurre blanc sauce:

Makes about 3/4 cup. 

1 piece shallot minced

2/3 orange juice squeezed ( or tangerines)

1/4 white wine

zest from one orange

1 stick very cold butter sliced

salt

Salmon:

2-4 fish pieces

salt and pepper

2 tablespoons oil

1 tablespoon butter

Potatoes:

5-6 peeled and sliced potatoes

salt

2-3 tablespoons oil

1 tablespoon butter

Spinach:

2 slices of turkey or pork bacon chopped

1 tablespoon oil

about 4 cups spinach

crispy onion strings

salt

 

Directions:

 

Combine orange juice,shallots,zest,and wine in a pan or saucepan. Bring to simmer on med-high heat.

Cook until liquid evaporates by half.

On low heat, whisk in butter slices one at a time. The sauce should thicken. Season with salt.

Strain through fine-mesh strainer.

Reheat sauce on low heat only.

Salmon:

Heat a frying pan on med-high heat.

Add oil.

Season fish with salt and pepper.

Transfer fish to a frying pan skin side up.

Pan-fry until half of the fish is cooked,then flip and continue frying until the other side gets cooked.

Potatoes:

Heat a frying pan on med-high heat. Add oil and butter. Season potatoes with salt and fry on both sides until fully cooked and browned.

Spinach:

Heat a large pan with oil. Throw in chopped bacon(or shallots). Cook until brown and crispy.Turn off the heat. Throw in spinach. Using kitchen tongs toss spinach around until its wilted.season with salt.Throw in some onion string pieces.

Arrange everything on a dinner plate in this order;potatoes,spinach,salmon,sauce.

fish with beurre blanc sauce

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