Broiled Crab Cake Food

BROILED CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Combine lemon dill sauce ingredients and chill.
• Saute the scallions, garlic, and parsley in a tablespoon of melted butter over medium heat until wilted.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the eggs, worcestershire sauce, dijon mustard, salt, pepper, 1/2 cup cracker crumbs, grated parmesan, and mayonnaise. Fold in the crabmeat. Shape into 8 crab cakes and coat in remaining cracker crumbs. Place crab cakes on a buttered baking pan. Melt butter and mix with lemon juice. Drizzle 1/2 of lemon butter over crab cakes.
• Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Drizzle remaining lemon butter over crab cakes and broil for 2 minutes until slightly browned.
• Serve with Lemon Dill Sauce.

BROILED CRAB CAKES RECIPE

Steps:

• Place an oven rack 5 inches beneath the broiler. Set the broiler to high.
• Prepare a baking sheet by lightly misting with olive oil or other nonstick spray.
• Drain the crabmeat, and dab it gently with a paper towel.
• Place the crab, egg, half and half, Worcestershire sauce, and Dijon mustard in a mixing bowl, and fold gently with a spatula, being careful not to break up the crabmeat.
• Crush the crackers to a coarse crumb.
• Add the cracker crumbs to the crabmeat mixture, and add a pinch of salt.
• Fold until well combined.
• Form four crab cakes, and place each on baking sheet.
• Top each crab cake with 1 teaspoon of butter.
• Broil the crab cakes for 3 minutes on the highest rack.
• Move the crab cakes to the lowest rack to prevent burning, and finish broiling another 3 minutes.
• Turn off the broiler, and let the crab cakes sit in the oven 1 more minute.
• Remove the crab cakes from the oven, and serve topped with optional lemon slices and fresh parsley.