Crab Cakes - Tips to Making Perfect Crab Cakes at Home by Tom Lingle

Many fine restaurants offer crab cakes on their menu, now you can create perfect crab cakes in your own kitchen for family and friends. Crab cakes are popular for brunch, lunch or dinner, served as appetizers and as a main dish. Crab cakes are delicate cakes made from fine crab meat and a few select ingredients, notably eggs and breadcrumbs that help bind the cakes together and help the crab cakes from breaking apart during pan frying or baking.

Start with the finest crabmeat and freshest ingredients you can find. Blue crab from the Atlantic, dungeness from the Pacific, and king crab from Alaska are all excellent varieties to make crab cakes. Jumbo lump and backfin crab meat are two excellent choices of meat to use from whichever variety you choose. Jumbo and backfin are premium meat from the crab and will have the best texture and flavor in your cakes. Fresh eggs, fresh herbs, fresh breadcrumbs, and fresh spices will all impact the flavor of your crab cakes.

Crab cake patties generally hold together when they have been covered and chilled in the refrigerator for at least an hour. The ingredients have a chance to set up and bind the cakes together better, meaning the crab cakes will should not fall apart as during the cooking process. Pan-frying in butter or baking are the most common methods of cooking crab cakes, but deep-frying, broiling, and grilling all are common ways to prepare crab cakes. Each method offers the chef or cook a different way to enhance the flavors and textures of the finished dish.

Crab cakes by themselves are wonderful. Crab cake sauces and salsas are a great way to enhance the crab cake flavors by introducing new and exciting flavors that contrast with the crab cakes. Sauces may be sweet, hot, spicy or savory. Having a couple good recipes for homemade tartar sauce as well as a few seafood salsas and sauces is a great way to serve crab cakes and lift the dish to a new level of dining.

Find delicious crab cake recipes at http://www.crabcakerecipes.net

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Tom Lingle is a professional web design, marketing consultant, and internet entrepreneur.

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