Maryland Crab Cakes Recipe

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"We have wonderful seafood here on the East Coast," relates Mrs. Eric Brown of Edison, New Jersey. "When my daughter comes home from college, she always requests these tasty crab cakes."

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Maryland Crab Cakes Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 25 min.

Yield: 2 Servings

15 10 25

Ingredients

2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
1 tablespoon minced celery
1 tablespoon minced green pepper
1 teaspoon butter
2 tablespoons egg substitute
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons seasoned bread crumbs
1/2 teaspoon seafood seasoning
1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
6 ounces fresh or canned crabmeat, drained, flaked and cartilage removed
1 tablespoon canola oil
Tartar sauce, optional

Directions

In a small skillet, saute the onion, celery and green pepper in butter until tender. In a bowl, combine the egg substitute and mayonnaise. Add the vegetables, bread crumbs, seafood seasoning, mustard and Worcestershire sauce; mix well. Fold in crab. Shape into four cakes.
In a skillet, cook crab cakes in oil over medium heat for 3-5 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Serve with tartar sauce if desired. Yield: 2 servings.

Nutritional Analysis: 2 crab cakes equals 310 calories, 22 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 70 mg cholesterol, 814 mg sodium, 7 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 21 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 2 fat, 1/2 starch.

Originally published as Maryland Crab Cakes in Cooking for 2 Spring 2005, p8