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Crab Cakes with Red Pepper Garlic Sauce

  Description:
Luscious crabmeat in seasoned cakes with garlic, red pepper and cracker crumbs. The garlic sauce (aioli) is a wonderful accompaniment.


Ingredients:
Olive Oil as Needed
2 Cans Real Crab Meat
Whites of 2 Eggs
2/3 pack Water Crackers
2 Teaspoons Old Bay Seasoning
1 Medium Red Pepper
2 Cloves Garlic
1/4 Cup Mayonnaise
Pinch Ground Cayenne Red Pepper


Preparation:
Cut the red pepper into small cubes and chop the two cloves of garlic. Cover the bottom of the frying pan with the oil and turn on medium heat. Add the peppers, cover with lid and cook for about 7 minutes. Add the garlic and let cook for another two minutes.

While the peppers are cooking, blend the Water crackers and Old Bay seasoning in the blender until finely ground. In a large bowl lightly beat both egg whites. Drain both cans of crab meet and add to bowl (watch out, the canned crab meet usually has paper in it and you don’t want that in your crab cakes.)

Take half of the red pepper/garlic mixture you just cooked and add to bowl. Mix ingredients until everything well incorporated. Fashion the mixture into 4 cakes until about the size of a hockey puck. Over medium heat, cover bottom of pan with oil (you want a lot of oil, so totally cover the bottom). Make sure pan is hot then add crab cakes. Let cook until brown and crisp –about 7 minutes. Flip cakes and let cook for 7 more minutes.

Garlic Sauce

While cooking, take the other half of the pepper/garlic mixture and add to the clean blender. Combine with a mayo and Cayenne pepper to taste. Blend until smooth. Cover the bottom of two plates with the garlic sauce, place crabs cakes on top.



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