One of my very favorite meals to make is crab cakes. Since my local Costco has 1 pound tubs of Dungeness crab – pre picked and ready to go – on a regular basis, making these crispy treats is as simple as following the recipe.
This recipe: Dungeness Crab Cakes (Inspired by CLUTCH)
If cooked appropriately you crab cakes should be nicely crisp on the outside, and still wonderfully moist on the inside. They’re wonderful as they are; straightforward, bold flavors, with no knives necessary.
BUT, if you want to kick it up a notch, you’ll need a simple sauce to give it that extra punch of flavor. Enter: my simple Old Bay remoulade.
First, Old Bay is mixture of seasonings originally produced in Baltimore, Maryland by a German immigrant who fled the Nazis in 1937. It’s a celery-salt and paprika forward mixture of a number of different spices (there are plenty of clone recipes online if you want to make your own), originally designed to compliment the crab and shrimp fished from the Chesapeake. As such it’s the perfect compliment to these crab cakes.
Second, remoulade isn’t nearly as fancy as it’s name wants it to be. While the original sauce has it’s roots in French cuisine, remoulade is – both historically and practically – a bit like aioli. Both are versatile and flexible sauces meant to compliment a variety of dishes and change significantly with time and place. Traditional remoulades were made with the likes of anchovies, curry, and/or horseradish, and also included a decent portion of chopped pickled products, and may have been originally used with heavier foods, such as beef and pork. My own mixture is much more subtle, as I made it as a simple, lighter sauce for those yummy crab cakes.
Please don’t put it on steak.
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup of mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley
- 2 teaspoons Old Bay seasoning
- Juice of 1/2 of a lemon
- 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
Instructions:
- Prep you’re ingredients: Chop the parsley, juice the lemon, organize your spices and condiments
- This is really easy: Get a small bowl, and whisk all of the ingredients together.
- Spoon it on your crab cakes, or other seafood, and enjoy!
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