Mini Crab Cakes with an Asian Plum Sauce

Name: Mini Crab Cakes with an Asian Plum Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 whole FOR THE CRAB CAKES:; ¼ cups Egg; 1 Tablespoon Mayonnaise; 1 whole Unsalted Butter, melted; 1-½ teaspoon Lemon, Zest Only; ½ teaspoons Cajun Seasoning; ¼ teaspoons Salt; ½ cups Pepper; 1 pound Panko Bread Crumbs (or More As Needed); 2 Tablespoons Fresh Crab Meat, Cleaned And Drained; 12 whole Olive Oil; 2 cups Slider Rolls (optional); 8 ounces, fluid Fresh Greens (optional); 2 whole FOR THE SAUCE:; 2 whole Asian Plum Sauce

Spice up your everyday crab cakes recipe with an Asian plum sauce!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients

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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Mini Crab Cakes with an Asian Plum Sauce

Serves 12

Prep10 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

998Calories

64 gProtein

34 gFat

109 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Crab	100g cooked	97
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Cake	not in our table	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

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

By tastykitchen. 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.

Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Crab + meattop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together448 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,091 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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