Southern Crab Cakes with Rémoulade Dipping Sauce
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Southern Crab Cakes with Rémoulade Dipping Sauce
A favorite on every coast, this Southern-style crab cake appetizer is served with a low-fat version of the classic New Orleans sauce. The crabmeat mixture may be covered and chilled up to four hours before cooking.
Yield
Makes 8 servings
Ingredients
10 | ounces fresh lump crabmeat |
1-1/2 | cups fresh white or sourdough bread crumbs, divided |
1/4 | cup chopped green onions |
1/2 | cup fat-free or reduced-fat mayonnaise, divided |
1 | egg white, lightly beaten |
2 | tablespoons coarse grain or spicy brown mustard, divided |
3/4 | teaspoon hot pepper sauce, divided |
2 | teaspoons olive oil, divided |
Lemon wedges |
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 200°F. Pick out and discard any shell or cartilage from crabmeat. Combine crabmeat, 3/4 cup bread crumbs and green onions in medium bowl. Add 1/4 cup mayonnaise, egg white, 1 tablespoon mustard and 1/2 teaspoon pepper sauce; mix well. Using 1/4 cup mixture per cake, shape into 8 (1/2-inch-thick) cakes. Roll crab cakes lightly in remaining 3/4 cup bread crumbs.
- Heat large nonstick skillet over medium heat; add 1 teaspoon oil. Add 4 crab cakes; cook 4 to 5 minutes per side or until golden brown. Transfer to serving platter; keep warm in oven. Repeat with remaining 1 teaspoon oil and crab cakes.
- To prepare dipping sauce, combine remaining 1/4 cup mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon mustard and 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce in small bowl; mix well.
- Serve crab cakes warm with lemon wedges and dipping sauce.
Nutritional Information
Serving Size: | 1 crab cake with 1-1/2 teaspoons sauce |
Sodium | 376 mg |
Protein | 7 g |
Fiber | <1 g |
Carbohydrate | 8 g |
Cholesterol | 30 mg |
Saturated Fat | <1 g |
Total Fat | 2 g |
Calories from Fat | 25 % |
Calories | 81 |
Dietary Exchange
Meat | 1 |
Starch | 1/2 |
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