Thai Crab Cakes Food

THAI-STYLE CRAB CAKES WITH QUICK CHILLI JAM

Steps:

• For the chilli jam dipping sauce, put the sugar, vinegar and 100ml/3½fl oz water in a small saucepan and gently heat until the sugar dissolves, stirring constantly. Add the chilli, garlic and ginger and bring to the boil. Cook for three minutes. Remove from the heat and pour into two heatproof serving bowls. It will thicken as it cools. (Any leftover chilli jam can be covered and kept in the fridge for up to two weeks.)
• To make the crab cakes, put the crab meat, prawns, curry paste, cornflour and a couple of really good pinches of flaked sea salt and a few twists of ground black pepper into a food processor. Blend until well combined. You may need to remove the lid and push the mixture down a couple of times with a rubber spatula. Don't allow the mixture to become too thin or smooth or it will be difficult to shape into crab cakes.
• Remove the blade and transfer the mixture to a large bowl. Stir in the spring onions and coriander until evenly mixed. Sprinkle a small tray or platter with the extra tablespoon of cornflour.
• Wet your hands under the cold tap to stop the crab cakes from sticking. Take a small handful of the mixture - about the size of a golfball. Roll into a neat ball then flatten until around 1.5cm/¾in thick and 6cm/2½in in diameter. Place on the cornflour-dusted tray. Continue rolling and flattening the mixture until you have made 12 crab cakes.
• Pour the oil into a large non-stick frying pan and place over a medium heat. When the oil is hot, add six of the crab cakes and cook for two minutes on each side or until lightly browned and cooked throughout. Transfer to a warmed plate while the rest are cooked.
• Divide the crab cakes between two large plates or small platters. Add a dish of the chilli jam to each one and garnish with lime wedges and sprigs of fresh coriander to serve.

CRAB CAKES WITH SWEET CHILLI & GINGER DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• To make the dipping sauce, blend the garlic, chillies, ginger, lime leaves, lemongrass and coriander in a food processor until very finely chopped. Tip the sugar into a small saucepan, add 3 tbsp water and heat gently to dissolve. Continue to cook for another min or so until the syrup starts to thicken slightly.
• Add the chilli and ginger mixture, and continue to cook for a further 2-3 mins. Then stir in the rice vinegar, fish sauce and soy sauce. Remove from the heat and leave to cool to room temperature.
• Cook the beans in a small pan of boiling salted water for 1-2 mins until tender. Drain and refresh under cold running water, then leave to dry on kitchen paper. Mix the crab with the cooked beans and all the remaining ingredients, apart from the sunflower oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and shape into 8 small patties.
• Heat 1-2 tbsp sunflower oil in a frying pan and cook 4 crab cakes at a time until golden brown on both sides. Remove from the pan and keep warm while you cook the remainder. Serve with the sweet chilli dipping sauce.

THAI-STYLE CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Gently toss the crabmeat with lemon juice and ginger. Set aside.
• In oil, saute' onions, pepper, and garlic until it is all soft. Let cool and toss with crabmeat. Add remaining ingredients, except for breadcrumbs.
• Form into small patties, about 2.5" in diameter. Place on wax paper in freezer for 30 minutes.
• Remove from freezer and pat with bread crumbs on both sides.
• Palace on parchment-covered baking sheet and bake for 2 minutes at 350, or until browned.
• Top with 1 T sweet chili sauce and serve.

THAI CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Place crabmeat , onions, lime leaf slivers (or zest), chili, lime juice, fish sauce, oyster sauce, 1 egg, mayonnaise (if using) and 3/4 cup panko together in a food processor or chopper. Process to combine ingredients.
• Add up to 1/4 cup more panko and briefly process or stir to combine. You want the mixture to be moist enough to form cakes, but not so moist that it falls apart. Add more panko until you can form cakes easily in your hands.
• Pat mixture into cakes (we usually make them 2 to 3 inches in diameter). Place on a clean plate.
• In a separate, smaller bowl, break 1 large or 2 small eggs and briefly whisk. Pour 3/4 cup panko into a mixing bowl and add the garlic salt, stirring to mix.
• Dip the crab cakes first into the egg, then roll in the panko mixture to cover. Set on a clean surface.
• Pour oil into a small frying pan or wok set over medium-high heat (oil should be 1-inch deep). Heat for 1 minute or longer. To test if oil is hot enough, drop in a few panko crumbs - if they begin to sizzle right away, the oil is ready.
• Carefully place crab cakes in the hot oil. Reduce heat slightly to prevent overheating and splattering. Fry crab cakes 1 to 2 minutes per side, or until golden brown.
• Serve with Thai sweet chili sauce. You can also serve with a dollop of mayonnaise alongside the sweet chili sauce - take a little of both on your crab cake at once for a wonderful combination of flavors.

THAI STYLE CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• Purée shrimp in a food processor (smaller is better) until you have a smooth paste, or chop and mash by hand. Add fish sauce. In a bowl, mix the shrimp purée, crab meat, egg, scallion, cilantro, chili, ginger and salt and pepper; add just enough bread crumbs to stiffen mixture a bit. Refrigerate mixture until you are ready to cook; it will be easier to shape into cakes if you refrigerate it for 30 minutes or more.
• Season flour with salt and pepper. Film bottom of a large skillet with oil and place over medium-high heat. Shape crab meat mixture into cakes 1 inch thick and as wide as you want. Dredge each in flour, and cook, adjusting heat as necessary and turning once (very gently), until golden brown on both sides, about 5 minutes a side. Serve with lime wedges.

CRAB CAKES WITH THAI VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Dice radicchio, carrot, red pepper, yellow pepper, green pepper, endive, cilantro and parsley, and place in a large mixing bowl. In a food processor, pulse one cup of Panko bread crumbs until very fine. Set aside. Add the other cup of Panko to the vegetable mixture.
• In a mixer, add egg yolk, Dijon mustard, turn mixer on medium, incorporate ingredients then add juice of 3 limes and ginger. Turn mixer on high and incorporate oil slowly. Emulsify until of mayonnaise consistency. Add this to vegetable mixture.
• Pick through jumbo lump crab meat checking for shells, add crab meat to vegetable mixture. Mix all ingredients well. Try to preserve the shape of crab meat.
• Form 3 ounce crab cakes from mixture. Then coat each crab cake in the fine bread crumbs. Set aside until ready to saute.
• In a blender add red curry paste, lemon juice and shallot. Turn blender on high slowly adding oil until emulsified then place in a squirt bottle for plating. In saute pan saute crabcakes, two crabcakes per person brown on one side. Flip over and place saute pan in a 375 degree oven for five minutes.
• On plate make a design with vinaigrette, place cooked crab cakes on top and serve. Garnish with celery stems.

RUSSELL'S THAI STYLE CRAB AND PRAWN CAKES

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together well.
• Shape into 8 cakes.
• Heat the oil over medium heat and fry the cakes until cooked and golden on one side (about 5 minutes).
• Turn over and cook for another couple of minutes or until cooked right through.
• Serve at once with a wedge of lime on the side.

THAI CRAB CAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, gently combine the crab meat, rice, jalapenos, lemon zest, basil and mint. Carefully stir in the salt, the pepper, the eggs and the bread crumbs, leaving the crab in fairly large lumps. Using 1 tablespoon of the mixture for each cake, press into croquettes that are about 2 inches in diameter.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Working in batches, cook the cakes until nicely browned and firm, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. Add more oil to the skillet as needed between batches. Serve hot.