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Mini Crab Cakes with Creamy Picante Sauce

"Restaurant crab cakes can't compete with this simply delicious recipe. Our crab cakes have just enough breadcrumbs to hold them together... and the 2-ingredient dipping sauce is divine!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Mini Crab Cakes with Creamy Picante Sauce

Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mini Crab Cakes with Creamy Picante Sauce

7 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

663Calories
20 gProtein
20 gFat
99 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + limetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Bread + limetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + limetop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, bread, egg):

  1. Pumpkinfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, bread, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.