Our best crab recipes - 35 recipes
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Ready to try these quick and tasty smashed potato cakes?
Ingredients
- 5 large potatoes
- 1/2 cup parsley
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1/2 cup cilantro
- 2 cups shredded cheese
- 1 cup milk
- Sour cream
method
- Boil and drain the potatoes
- In a mixing bowl, combine the potatoes with parsley, minced garlic, cilantro, shredded cheese and milk.
- Mash the mixture thoroughly.
- Shape into palm-sized balls, then flatten on a sheet pan
- Put in oven for 20 min at 355° F
- Layer, spreading generously with sour cream
- Garnish, and enjoy!
Top rated Crab recipes
crab and lemon maki

By Ingrid Allard , blog Chez Inoule
Rinse rice in cold water. Boil water (2 times the volume of rice) in a saucepan and add the rice
- 8 oz sushi rice
- 1/4 cup of vinegar for sushi
- 1 egg yolk
- 2/3 cup of sunflower oil
- 2 tsp mustard
- 1 can flaked crab
- 1 carrot
- 2 thin green asparagus
- 4 large leaves of lemon balm
- 2 sheets of nori
- 2 sheets of colored soy (eg roses)
- salt
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Crab Mandu

By kehauct
Shred imitation crab meat
- 1 Package Imitation Crab
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese
- 1 "Blop" of Mayonnaise
- 1-2 Splashes of Worcestershire Sauce
- Chopped Green Onions
- Wonton/Mandu wrappers
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Crab Rangoon

By waterlily7122011
These are to die for. My husband loves them to no end
- 1 pkg imitation crab
- 2 8 oz pkg of cream cheese
- 2 to 6 tsp soy sauce
- pinch of minced fresh ginger root
- pinch of minced fresh garlic
- 1/4 cup minced sweet onion
- 1/2 bunch green onion chopped
- black pepper
- Vegetable oil
- 1 pkg of wonton wrappers
Classic Mini Stuffed Mushrooms

By boristhechef
You need these delicious stuffed mushrooms in your life! Wonderfully simple recipe with white wine and crab
- 23 pints mushrooms
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 can crabmeat (can use minced clams also)
- 1 cup parmesan cheese
- 3/4 stick butter
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- 3/4 cup breadcrumbs
- salt & pepper
Gluten Free Crab-cakes

By Gourmandize Gluten- Free Guru, Healthy Eating And Living
Drain the crab then add to a large mixing bowl
- 12 oz crab meat (you can use wild crab from a tin and just add water)
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup red onion
- diced
- ½ cup gluten free bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon of jalapeno
- finely diced
- with seeds
- ¼ cup fresh parsley
- diced
- 1.5 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon dijon
- 1.5 tablespoon Herbamare seasoning
- or seasoning of your choice
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
Crab Rangoon

By erica19smith88
Preheat oven to 420
- 1 clove of garlic. (Minced)
- 1 (8oz) pkg cream cheese
- 1 (6oz) pkg imitation crab meat
- 2 green scallions thinly sliced
- 2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 tsp light soy sauce
- wonton wrappers
Crab Stuffed Pepper Appetizers

By Mimm du blog Les Délices de Mimm
Dip the peppers in a pan of boiling water and cook about 15 minutes
- 6 mini-peppers
- 3-4 ounces of cooked crabmeat
- 1 hard boiled egg
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp chopped herbs (chives
- parsley
- ...)
California Roll

By vionngai, vionngai.wordpress
To make the rice: combine rice vinegar, sugar, salt and dashi with rice then cover with cloth until ready to assemb...
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 2.5 tbsp of rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp dashi
- 1 nori sheet cut in half
- 1 avocado
- 0.25 cucumber sliced lengthwise and thinly
- 1 tbsp Japanese mayo
- 60 grams crab meat
Crab Dip

By alexscharft
Blend ingredients and place in heat proof container
- 250 ml cream cheese
- 1 tin crab meat
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp milk
- Pepper to taste
Modified Smith Island Crabcakes

By Hollie1959
Lightly crisp on the outside moist and meaty in the inside
- 1 lb special crab meat
- 1 lb claw crab meat
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbl Dijon Mustard
- 1 tbl Old Bay Seasoning
- 3 tbl Mayonaise
- Fresh saltine crackers
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Butter and oil for frying
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More Crab recipes
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Crab & Clam Gumbo / Stew
- Olive oil pam spray
- 2 cups of chopped onion
- 2 Tbsp garlic/heaping
- 2 cups diced tomatoes
- rinsed & drained
- 2 cups water
- 2 Tbsp basil
- pepper
- 2 - 6.5oz chopped clams in juice
- 2 cups chopped celery
- 1 cup milk
- 14 oz crab-meat
- rinse well
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VEGAN CRAB LIKE CAKES
- 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1 celery stick
- minced
- 1/2 sweet onion
- minced
- 2 carrots
- minced
- 1 green pepper
- minced
- 1 jalapenos
- minced
- 1 pkg extra firm Indian tofu
- crumbled
- 1 tsp liquid smoke
- 1/2 cup wheat gluten
- 2 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
- 2 sheets Nori seaweed
- shredded
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup Nayonnaise
- Breadcrumbs for rolling
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Creamy Crab Lettuce Wraps with...
- 2 green onions
- 6 oz. cream cheese
- softened
- 1/2 Cup mayonnaise
- 12 oz. crab meat
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- iceberg lettuce leaves
- 1/2 Cup cream of coconut (the thick syrup)
- zest and juice of 1 lime
- cilantro for garnish
- optional
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Quick Crabmeat Dip
- 1/8 stick butter
- 8oz cream cheese
- 1 can of crab meat (or use fresh)
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- Dash of Worcestershire sauce
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Recipewe ♡ Crispy Stuffed Mushrooms with Crab
- 8-12 fresh mushrooms
- 1 cup chopped crab meat
- 1 egg
- beaten
- 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 cup Italian-syle bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup grated mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup melted butter
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Crab meat casserole
- 1 lb of imitation crab meat
- 16oz mayo
- 1 package of cream cheeses
- 3 bunches of scallions
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Crab Curry with Kaffir Lime
- 1 crab frozen or fresh (ask your fishmonger cut into pieces)
- 8 oz of fresh tomato juice or peeled tomatoes
- 1 oz of ginger
- peeled and crushed
- 2 cloves garlic
- peeled
- crushed and degermed
- 1/2 tsp. turmeric (saffron IEP)
- 1 onion
- peeled
- sliced and minced
- some water
- salt & pepper
- 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil
- 1 sprig of thyme
- zest of half a kaffir lime (optional)
- snipped fresh chives (optional)
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Crab Cakes - Small Batch
- 4 living blue crabs
- 1 egg
- about a cup of bread crumbs
- dijon
- worcestershire
- handful of chopped onion
- small bit of mayo
- pinch of red pepper and hot sauce
- salt and pepper
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Hot Crab Dip
- 1/2 pound jumbo lump crabmeat
- 1 (8 oz) package cream cheese
- room temperature
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 3 Tbsp minced green onions
- 2 large garlic cloves
- minced
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp hot sauce
- 1/2 tsp old bay seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
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Onion Dip
- 1 cup Mayonnaise
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 1 cup Old Cheddar Cheese
- 1 large or 2 small Onions
- Crab and Chopped Tomato (optional)
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Crab Cakes
- 1 lb backfin (crab)
- 1 lb claw (crab)
- 2 slices white bread
- 2 tsp dijon mustard
- 1 tsp seafood seasoning
- 1/4 cup each celery and onions
- sauteed
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
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Crab Cakes- Small Batchh 2
- 4 living blue crabs
- 1 egg
- about a cup of bread crumbs
- dijon
- worcestershire
- handful of chopped onion
- small bit of mayo
- pinch of red pepper and hot sauce
- salt and pepper
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