I subscribe to My Daily Recipes.com, and this one came through. I don't particularly like crab, but others in my house do, so I took one for the team, and added extra cream cheese and cranberries to hide the flavor. I also added bread crumbs to the mix instead of making them as tarts.
Crab Cakes
Ingredients:
1 pound shredded crab
1 jar whole berry cranberry sauce
1 small container cream cheese, use at least 1/2 for binding, more if you like the flavor
green onions
salt and pepper
1 cup bread crumbs
oil
In a bowl, combine crab, desired amount of cream cheese, green onions, salt and pepper, and bread crumbs. Heat up oil in a large pan and drop cakes in, cooking for a couple minutes on each side until golden brown. Let sit on paper towels for a few minutes.. Drop a spoon full of cranberry sauce on top and serve.
For a healthier option (which I did much to the chagrin of those I was feeding) the cakes can be baked at 375ºF for about 15-20 minutes. For this option, also put the cranberry sauce on before heating so it gets warm too.
I made my own bread crumbs by leaving out 4 pieces of bread that morning. You want it partially stale but not so dry it absorbs all the moisture from the crab cake mixture. I put the bread in the blender to make it into smaller pieces before mixing it in with every thing else.
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