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Classic Crab Cake Recipe with Shaved Zucchini Salad

This easy and classic crab cake recipe is the one you'll reach for over and over again, pair with delicious and light zucchini salad for a low carb healthy meal.
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Ingredients
  

Crab Cake Ingredients

  • 2 lbs lump crabmeat or 2 (16 oz cans)
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp Old Bay seasoning
  • 1 tsp dry parsley flakes
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 2 tsp mayonnaise
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 slices white bread, cut crust off cut into cubes

Zucchini Salad

  • 2 zucchini, shaved with a spiralizer or peeler
  • 1 tsp hot pepper flakes
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 lemon
  • 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
  • salt & pepper to taste

Instructions
 

Crab Cake Recipe Directions

  • In a medium size bowl combine eggs, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, Old Bay seasoning, parsley, mayo and mustard. Mix well.
  • Place crabmeat in a separate bowl and add your cubed bread, pour the wet mixture over the crabmeat and bread or breadcrumbs and then gently mix until the crabmeat and bread is covered in the egg mixture.
  • Work with your hands to create round balls of the mixture, then place in the refrigerator. Wait at least a half hour before frying the crab cakes.
  • Pour the oil in your frying pan and wait a few moments for the oil to be hot. Once the oil is ready gently place your crab cakes into the pan. Do not touch for several minutes.
  • Then gently flip the cakes over and wait a few minutes, then lower the temperature. Cakes should be cooked through in 4-5 minutes on each side.

Zucchini Salad Directions

  • A spiralizer typically comes with another end, which allows you to shave the veggie. If you do not have a spiralizer you can use a vegetable peeler to shave the zucchini super thin. It really makes a difference to have the zucchini slices so thinly, especially since we are eating it raw.
  • In a bowl whisk together  olive oil, red pepper flakes and lemon juice. Then toss in the zucchini add salt and pepper and top with as much parmesan cheese as you like
  • I love the combo of the lemony and crunchy zucchini with these melt in your mouth crab cakes. Hope you give this combo a try on one of these summer nights! Also, pair it with a rose for a fun date night at home :)