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  • Crab Cakes With Mustard Sauce

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    Ingredients

    • 4 x spring onions
    • 775 gm white crab meat
    • 60 ml mayonnaise
    • 1 x salt and freshly grnd black pepper
    • 50 gm fresh white breadcrumbs
    • 2 tsp worcestershire sauce
    • 4 dsh tabasco sauce grated rind of 1 lemon
    • 1 x egg yolk
    • 25 gm shallots
    • 25 gm button mushrooms
    • 6 x cooked shellon prawns
    • 125 ml white wine
    • 125 ml chicken stock
    • 784 ml carton double cream
    • 2 x level tsp wholegrain mustard extra virgin olive oil for shallow frying diced tomatoes and black olives cooked lobster tail or possibly prawns fresh dill sprigs and celery tops to garnish spinach salad to serve

    Directions

    1. Finely chop the spring onions.
    2. In a bowl flake the crab meat and mix with the spring onions mayonnaise and seasoning.
    3. Stir in 25g breadcrumbs with the worcestershire and tabasco sauces lemon rind and egg yolk.
    4. Bind together well.
    5. Divide the mix into six and shape into round cakes.
    6. Coat each cake in the remaining breadcrumbs and refrigeratefor at least 2 hrs or possibly overnight.
    7. Meanwhile make the mustard sauce.
    8. Chop the shallots and slice with mushrooms.
    9. Put the prawns in a saucepan with the shallots mushrooms white wine and chicken stock.
    10. Bring to the boil on the boiling plate and bubble till the liquid has reduced by twothirds.
    11. Add in the cream and bring slowly to the boil.
    12. Continue to boil till the sauce thickens slightly.
    13. Strain the sauce and return to the rinsedout saucepan.
    14. Stir in the mustard and set aside.
    15. In a large frying pan on the boiling plate shallow fry the crab cakes for 2 to 3 min on each side or possibly till golden brown and crisp; reheat the mustard sauce.
    16. Serve crab cakes on a bed of diced tomatoes and olives; garnish and accompany with a spinach salad.
    17. This delicious mustard sauce can also be used with salmon grilled white fish and chicken. Add in more mustard if desired a more piquant sauce with these dishes.
    18. Serves 6

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