Crab cakes

For whatever reason my friends have been making crab cakes recently and they looked good. And since my taste buds have been altered lately (eating clean for 24 days miiiight have something to do with it) I decided I'd give it a whirl! And man am I glad I did. So delicious! 

I found the recipe off of Pinterest. Seriously just searched "crab cakes" and read through them until I thought "well this is easy, I can do this". LOL 

I bought the lump crab meat that is already ready for me to eat. I suppose you could get a crab and shred the meat yourself, if that's your thing, but I'm all about getting the end result as quickly as possible. 

I didn't measure out my sriracha because I like it so I just squirted some in there until I felt it was enough. It wasn't. I'll add more next time. I measured everything else. 

Recipe: 

12 oz Crab Meat (I used 2 8oz containers) 

1 egg 

2 tsp lemon juice (I just squeezed half a lemon) 

3 tbsp mayonnaise 

1 tsp sriracha (if you're boring)

2 tbsp parsley flakes (eyeballed this) 

3 green onions, chopped 

1/2 of Panko breadcrumbs (plus a little extra because I was working with a little more than 12 oz of meat) 

Salt and pepper for taste 

1 tbsp olive oil (for frying) 

Get a bowl. Mix everything together except the olive oil. 

Make your patties, mine made about 13.  

Heat up your tablespoon of olive oil in a medium size skillet on medium heat. Add your patties (as many as you can fit in your pan, my pan only fit 4) Let em cook about 5 minutes on each side. Or til golden brown. 

I added a tablespoon of olive oil every time I put fresh patties in there because I felt like there wasn't any left. FYI. 

Repeat til done. 

We made a sauce too, but you'll have to ask Paul what he put in it. Hahaha 

We paired our meal with a Caesar salad. 

Yum! I wish we had leftovers, but we invited Paul's brother and his wife over so that we wouldn't have leftovers. Woops. Backfired. 

Yours truly,

Dauphingal