Crab Cakes

I have in recent months become obsessed with crab cakes. I had them when my hubbie and I went out for my birthday at an amazing restaurant; and ever since it has been my mission to find the prefect recipe.

The problem with most of the recipes that I found is that they had a tremendous amount of filler in them and I wanted mostly crab meat. Eventually I came across a recipe that intrigued me so I decided to give it a try!

I started my mixing the crab meat with red pepper, shallots, bread crumbs (made from tostitos...more on that later), parsley, sea salt & pepper

I then created the wet mixture with mayo, mustard (it called for Dijon, but I only had regular so I lessened it a bit),Worcester sauce, an egg, and lemon juice.

After whisking it all together I then carefully folded it into the crab mixture (the recipe was adamant about the careful part).

The next step was to somehow form this mixture into patties and roll them in the bread crumbs. It was a challenge but one worth conquering, after that I refrigerated them for a couple of hours to let them set properly.

At this point I realized that they were becoming more the main dish then the appetizer that I had originally planned, so I left the steak for another day!

After letting the set for a few hours the next step was to sear them on a high heat...again flipping them proved to be challenging but all in all they turned out pretty great!

The final step was to continue cooking them by baking them at 350 for about 15 minutes (or until they were heated all the way through. They turned out amazing! I loved them, as did my hubbie.

I did wonder about maybe adding a hint of cream cheese to them as they were firmer than I'd envisioned. There was a sauce that I thought about making for them but something about the recipe for it made me question it...too much mustard I think...I've put out the call for the perfect sauce recipe so we'll see what comes in.

All in all yummy. yummy, yummy!!!!