Lobster And Crab Cakes With Wild Blueberries Food

LOBSTER AND CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl combine all bread crumb mixture ingredients.
• Poach lobster in water with lemon, basil and sea salt. (Rule of thumb is 5 minutes per pound.) Remove lobster from water and chill in ice water. Remove meat and shell and dice meat. Lightly pick through crabmeat.
• Add crab and lobster to mixture and gently fold mixture until combines. Lightly press mixture down in bowl and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Form the crab cakes in to 3-ounce portions about a silver dollar wide and 1 1/2 inches tall.
• To a large saute pan, add enough light olive oil to fill about 1/2 inch high. Bring to 350 degrees F and add crab cakes. Cook until golden brown on both sides.

WEST INDIAN CURRIED CRAB AND LOBSTER CAKES

Steps:

• Combine everything in a mixing bowl except the crabmeat, lobster, and panko. Taste the mixture for seasoning. Gently fold in crabmeat and lobster, careful not to break up crabmeat too much. Fold in panko, adding enough so that the mixture is not too tight.
• Cook 1 crab cake and taste. Adjust the seasoning if necessary.
• Form into 2 1/2-ounce cakes. Saute on both sides until golden brown.

RED LOBSTER CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine all ingredients, except crab meat and bread crumbs.
• Using gloved hands, gently mix in crab meat, then add bread crumbs.
• Spread a thin layer of plain bread crumbs on your work surface.
• Form crab mixture into equal balls, approximately two inches in diameter.
• Place on crumbs, gently flatten the balls of crab mixture & round the edges. Form the cakes about one-half inch thick & three inches round.
• Refrigerate.
• In a sauté pan heat 2 tablespoons of oil.
• Gently slide in two crab cakes at a time.
• Brown on one side approximately two-to-three minutes. Turn and brown the other side.
• Turn down heat and simmer crab cakes another 5-8 minutes.