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Pan-fried crab cakes recipe
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Pan-fried crab cakes recipe

19 ingredients 15 min + 10 min 2 people openrecipes

Darrin Hosegrove shares his recipe for crab cakes with a chilli and apple salsa.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

694
Calories
35g
Protein
39g
Fat
57g
Carbs

Counts 13 of 16 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Biscuit 1 medium (45g) 166
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Apple 1 medium (182g) 95
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Shallot 1 tbsp minced (10g) 7
Cayenne 1 tsp (1.8g) 6
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Chives 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Meat not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0
Coriander not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 100 White crab meat
  • g Brown crab meat
  • 50 Shallot
  • g Chopped chives
  • 1 Water biscuits (blended to a crumb)
  • 1 Egg yolk to Bind
  • tsp Cayenne
  • 25 Splash of clarified butter
  • g Sea salt
  • 1 Cracked black pepper
  • 1 Shallot
  • pinch Clove garlic
  • 1 Red chilli
  • 1 Bird's eye chilli
  • pinch Cox's apple
  • 1 Virgin olive oil
  • pinch Lime - Juice and zest
  • 1 Roughly chopped coriander
  • 0.5 Sea salt

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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