Texas Crab Cakes

Village Idiot

Move over, Maryland.  There's a new sheriff in town.

If you're looking for an exact duplicate of Maryland Crab Cakes, you'll be disappointed.  But, if you want a spicy, Southwestern flavored crab cake, you'll love this.  I got the recipe from the Homesick Texan.

Cooking in butter in my comal in the Mini.

For some reason, this batch of cakes didn't quite hold together as before.  Still delicious, but not as pretty.  So, I'm attaching a picture of my last cook.

Crab Cakes with Chipotle Chiles and Corn

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Recipe By: The Homesick Texan Cookbook

Ingredients:

1 pound Crabmeat

1/2 cup Mayonaise

2 cloves Garlic, minced

1/2 cup corn kernels

1 Chipolte in Adobo sauce, finely diced

1/2 cup Cilantro, diced

1/4 teaspoon Cayenne pepper

1/2 teaspoon Cumin    

1/4 teaspoon Ginger, ground

1/4 cup Lime juice

1 cup Saltine crackers, finely crushed

Salt & Pepper, to taste

2 tablespoons Unsalted butter

Directions:

1. Stir together the mayonnaise, garlic, corn, chipotle, cilantro, cayenne, cumin, ginger, and lime juice until ingredients are well combined.

2. Add the crabmeat, then stir in the cracker crumbs, adding salt and pepper to taste.

3. Form into 8 patties and refrigerate for 1 hour.

4. To cook, melt the butter into a cast iron skillet and put on Egg. Cook each side until golden brown.

5. Serve with Texas Tartar sauce.  I just bought tartar sauce from grocery store and put Louisiana hot sauce and lime juice in it.  Pam says the crab cakes don't need  a sauce.

travisstrick

Tell Pam she's right and then beg for forgiveness. 

Those look great. I'm bookmarking this one. 

Little Steven

Das a load of spices for you Gary. Looks real good.

nolaegghead

We make crab cakes all the time...well, SWMBO makes them.  Blue lump is relatively cheap here because of all water (still ain't cheap). Her roasted red pepper aioli puts them over the top.  I'll ask her for the recipe if you're interested.  I'm talking serious gour-met (bleep!).

Little Steven

If that was for me I make a roasted garlic aioli with thyme and tarragon. I use king crab and lump together cause the king is cheaper here in season. Like to see the missus's recipe.

travisstrick

nolaegghead said:

We make crab cakes all the time...well, SWMBO makes them.  Blue lump is relatively cheap here because of all water (still ain't cheap). Her roasted red pepper aioli puts them over the top.  I'll ask her for the recipe if you're interested.  I'm talking serious gour-met (bleep!).

I'm interested.

Village Idiot

nolaegghead said:

We make crab cakes all the time...well, SWMBO makes them.  Blue lump is relatively cheap here because of all water (still ain't cheap). Her roasted red pepper aioli puts them over the top.  I'll ask her for the recipe if you're interested.  I'm talking serious gour-met (bleep!).

Nola.  I'm always interested in seeing another recipe.  Knowing you, it probably has the "holy trinity" in it, which may not be a bad thing.  

Lump crab meat is usually not real expensive here in Houston, either.  It typically comes from Mexico in a 1 pound tub.  Price usually about $9.95 on sale.

mb99zz

Ww, looks very good.

nolaegghead

She brought me the cookbook...has notes all over the page from modifications, but here it is. (sorry, no mirepoix!)

1 roasted red bell pepper (jar roasted red bell pepper works fine too) cut up
2 cloves garlic, cut up
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup light mayo (or 1/2 cup light and 1/2 cup sour cream)
fresh dill to taste.

In a food processor, process the pepper and garlic.  Add the remaining ingredients and process until smooth.  Cover and chill.  Serve at room temperature.

Mickey

Gary that just looks good man.

NibbleMeThis

This is definitely one that I have to try out. The flavors packed in there sound great without overpowering the crab itself.

Griffin

Me thinking I need to get a comal now. Looks outstanding.

fishlessman

that looks great to me, i have never had a crab cake i thought was good and its because of lack of flavor, spicing it up would be a great thing

Sgt93

Looks great.