Southern Style Crab Cakes with Spicy Tartar Sauce
Southern Style Crab Cakes are served with a homemade Spicy Tartar Sauce that is chock full of flavor and filled with complete and utter deliciousness! You can serve them as an appetizer or as a light meal.
Ingredients
- 2 1 lb canned lump crab meat
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 2 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
- 4 teaspoon lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
- 2 tsp. Cajun spice
- 2 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
- 1 cup Panko
- 4 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Spicy Tartar Sauce
- 4 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1 tsp. Cajun spice
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, add and stir together eggs, mayo, dijon mustard, Worcestershire, lemon juice, garlic powder, old bay seasoning, and cajun spice.
- Now add the crab, parsley, and panko crumbs.
- Fold to combine
- Do NOT stir.
- Use a regular sized ice cream scoop, scoop out your crab mixture and roll into a ball.
- Now form them into patties by pressing lightly down on the crab ball.
- Refrigerate crab cakes for 20 minutes on a parchment covered baking pan and place another parchment paper on top of the crab cakes.
- Heat oil in a frying pan big enough to hold half of the crab cakes.
- Add crab cakes and cook 4-5 minutes on each side.
- You may need to add a little more oil, if necessary while pan frying.
- In a small bowl add all ingredients for the dipping sauce and stir to combine.
- Serve immediately.
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