If you’ve always been to Maryland, y'all know eating crabs is a summertime pastime: picnic tables covered alongside brownish paper, silvery buckets, buttered corn, french fries, cornbread, together with the unmistakable odor of seafood.
In Maryland crab meat goes on everything: hamburgers, stuffed shrimps, stuffed mushrooms, soup, literally everything gets crab meat. But my absolute favorite affair made alongside crab meat are crab cakes.
When done right, crab cakes are simply fabulous: the perfect blend of lump crabmeat, hardly whatever filler, together with an amazing blend of seasoning. DELISH!
I’m non hither to verbalize almost crab cakes though; certain I tin sack brand some MEAN crab cakes but today it’s all almost these Zucchini “Crab” Cakes.
Would y'all believe me if I told y'all that these actually gustatory modality similar crab cakes, fifty-fifty if made alongside no crab at all? And they are practiced plenty to fool crabcake-lovers?
Probably not. You should though.
I i time served ‘em to Dad together with fifty-fifty though he’s crab lover, he raved over these.
Even though he labeled them equally “poorman’s crab cakes” he enjoyed them together with thus real much.
I know it sounds doubtful, but the combination of traditional seasonings together with the texture of zucchini actually do create a resulting dish that tastes a lot similar crab cakes.
They powerfulness non await similar crab cakes, but the gustatory modality is there.
These Zucchini “Crab” Cakes non alone are a inexpensive alternative that uses shredded zucchini inwards identify of crab meat, they’re besides a prissy vegetarian option, non to bring upwards a smashing agency to utilize that bumper crop of zucchini.
They’re smashing solitary smeared alongside tartar sauce or inwards a bun alongside lettuce together with tomato.
Crispy together with golden brownish on the outside, together with moist on the inside. Perfect inwards my book!
Zucchini “Crab” Cakes Print this recipe!
Ingredients
Makes vi cakes
two ½ cups grated zucchini (about two medium zucchini)
1 egg, beaten
two tablespoons mayonnaise (make your ain paleo mayo with this recipe)
two tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1 ½ teaspoons mustard (preferably Dijon mustard)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning (make your ain Old Bay Seasoning with this recipe)
1 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup breadcrumbs (I used Aleia's Gluten Free Panko Crumbs)
Directions
In a large bowl combine grated zucchini, egg, mayonnaise, parsley, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, seasoning, together with salt.
Add breadcrumbs ¼ loving cup at a fourth dimension together with mix until it reaches a theater consistency together with volition concur upwards equally cakes. Cover together with refrigerate for at to the lowest degree xxx minutes to theater up.
Scoop almost ¼ loving cup of mixture together with alongside dampened hands cast into vi cakes.
Preheat a large nonstick pan to medium-high together with coat alongside vegetable oil. When hot, identify cakes inwards pan together with create until golden-brown, almost iv to v minutes per side.
Alternatively y'all tin sack bake the cakes inwards the oven. Place cakes on a greased baking sheet. Preheat broiler together with broil for vi minutes, take from the oven, carefully flip the cakes, together with broil on the other side for farther vi minutes, until golden-brown.
Serve instantly alongside a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Nutrition facts
One cake yields 124 calories, v grams of fat, fifteen grams of carbs, together with v grams of protein. Sumber http://www.theironyou.com/