Crab Cakes

For those who loves to bake, here is one cool recipe for you. Crab cakes! Yes, crab cakes are becoming popular especially for the seafood and cake lovers. Here is a crab cake recipe I stumbled upon from the net:

Ingradients:
1 pound fresh lump crabmeat, picked over for cartilage
1 egg
1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper (optional)
1/2 cup chopped scallion (optional)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons bread crumbs, preferably fresh, or cracker crumbs, or as needed
About 1 cup all-purpose flour for dredging
Curry powder (optional)
2 tablespoons peanut, extra virgin olive, or vegetable oil
2 tablespoons butter or more oil
Lemon wedges and/or Tartar Sauce

Procedure:
1. Mix together the crabmeat, egg, bell pepper, scallion, mayonnaise, mustard, and some salt and pepper. Add enough bread crumbs to bind the mixture just enough to form into cakes; start with 2 tablespoons and use more if you need it.

2. Refrigerate the mixture until you're ready to cook (it will be easier to shape if you refrigerate it for 30 minutes or more, but it's ready to go when you finish mixing).

3. Season the flour with salt and pepper and add some curry powder if you like. Heat a large skillet, preferably cast-iron, over medium-high heat for 2 or 3 minutes. Add the oil and butter and heat until the butter foam subsides. Shape the crabmeat mixture into 1- inch-thick cakes, dredge each in the flour, and cook, adjusting the heat as necessary and turning once (very gently), until golden brown on both sides, about 5 minutes per side. Serve with lemon wedges and/or tartar sauce.

From http://www.howtocookeverything.tv/recipe.php%3Fnid=29.html

Crab Meat and Rice

Crab Meat and Rice.


Ingredients:

• 2 cups uncooked rice
• 2 tablespoons minced parsley
• 1/4 cup boiled chicken, meat and pork
• 1 teaspoon garlic
• 2 tablespoon toyo
• 4 tablespoon lard
• 2 tablespoon finely sliced green onion leaves
• 1 egg, well beaten
• 1/4 cup shrimps (blanched)
• 1 piece Chinese chorizo (fried)
• 1/4 cup crab meat (cooked)

Cooking Procedure:

1. Cut pork into small cubes, mince the chicken and cook in a little lard and toyo.
2. Cut shrimps, chorizo and crab meat into tiny cubes, also the onion leaves.
3. Heat lard in a frying pan, add garlic and fry the rice.
4. Add part of the beaten eggs and lastly the rest of the ingredients reserving a part for the top garnish.
5. Prepare a thin omelet of eggs and cut into strips.
6. Place the fried rice and meat in a bowl.
7. Sprinkle on top of this mold of rice the finely cut green onion leaves, a little fried shrimps and chorizo, and the fine strips of omelet.
8. Serve hot.