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Crab Cakes

By Food & Wine Updated December 20, 2016
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Making your own crab cakes might sound intimidating, but this popular dish is actually easy to make at home. Here, our favorite crab cake recipes to inspire you, from classic Maryland-style crab cakes to crisp crab cakes with chipotle mayonnaise.
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Crab Cakes with Smoky Onion Remoulade

Crab Cakes with Smoky Onion Remoulade
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Smoky onion remoulade is a terrific accompaniment to these crab-studded cakes from Marc Forgione at American Cut in Manhattan. At the restaurant, he smokes onions, but the sauce is also great made with charred onions and seasoned with smoked salt.

  • Tahini Remoulade

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Crab Cakes with Horseradish Cream

8 Ways to Serve Crab Cakes
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Lump crabmeat is mixed with only enough bread crumbs and mayonnaise to hold it together, then coated with more crumbs and fried to a golden brown. A mixture of sour cream and horseradish provides lively accompaniment.

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Maryland-Style Crab Cakes

Maryland-Style Crab Cakes
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These luscious crab cakes are proportionally perfect: heavy on glorious hunks of crab, light on bread crumbs. And instead of frying the cakes, Baltimore chef Spike Gjerde of Woodberry Kitchen serves them "brold" (Baltimorese for "broiled," he says). "I can't overemphasize how important it is to use fresh, carefully processed meat from blue crabs," he adds.

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Crab Cakes with Lemongrass Mayonnaise

Crab Cakes with Lemongrass Mayonnaise
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Though chef Hans Rockenwagner makes homemade mayonnaise for this recipe; you can substitute 1 1/4 cups of jarred mayonnaise blended with 1 tablespoon of minced lemongrass, from the tender white bulb, and 1 teaspoon of finely grated ginger; let sit for 30 minutes.

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Baltimore-Style Crab Cakes

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Team these with homemade slaw, a warm potato salad and some fruit salad, and watch your family go to it like a swarm of locusts. Guaranteed.--Andrew Zimmern

  • Smoked Fish Salad with Pickled Beans and Eggs

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Reitzer's Sweet Corn Soup with Shiitake Crab Cakes

Reitzer's Sweet Corn Soup with Shiitake Crab Cakes
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The shiitake crab cakes add a touch of flavor to this sweet corn soup.

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Spicy Crab Cakes with Mango Puree

Spicy Crab Cakes with Mango Puree
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When making crab cakes, it's customary to keep the crabmeat in chunks. Here, it's best to break up some of the meat to keep the crisp patties together.

  • Roasted Carrot and Cumin Puree

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Crisp Cayenne-Spiced Crab Cakes

Crisp Cayenne-Spiced Crab Cakes
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Growing up in Silver Spring, Maryland, cooking-club member DeeAnn Budney attended all-day Chesapeake blue crab feasts organized by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Now that she lives on the West Coast, she makes these fantastically spicy crab cakes with sweet Dungeness crab meat, but either kind works.

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Crab Cakes and Curry Mayonnaise with Apple Salad

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Between the flavorful crab cakes, the intense curry mayonnaise and the delightful apple salad, your palate will surely be satisfied.

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Crisp Crab Cakes with Chipotle Mayonnaise

Crisp Crab Cakes with Chipotle Mayonnaise
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These amazing, light and simple crab cakes are bound with fish, not cracker crumbs, for a deep seafood flavor.

  • Chipotle-Citrus Mayonnaise

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Pretzel-Crusted Crab Cakes

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Instead of bread crumbs, chef Stephanie Sokolove uses crushed pretzels to bind and crust her chunky crab cakes. She sometimes bakes them in her outdoor oven.

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    1 of 11 Crab Cakes with Smoky Onion Remoulade
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    3 of 11 Maryland-Style Crab Cakes
    4 of 11 Crab Cakes with Lemongrass Mayonnaise
    5 of 11 Baltimore-Style Crab Cakes
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    9 of 11 Crab Cakes and Curry Mayonnaise with Apple Salad
    10 of 11 Crisp Crab Cakes with Chipotle Mayonnaise
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