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Pan-fried Crab Cakes Recipe

Darrin Hosegrove shares his recipe for crab cakes with a chilli and apple salsa.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Pan-fried Crab Cakes Recipe

2 people
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

694Calories
35 gProtein
39 gFat
57 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 16 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Coriandernot 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 lovefood. 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. Shallot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Chive + biscuittop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + biscuittop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Crab + meattop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Crab + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (crab, meat, chive, biscuit, egg, butter, pepper):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against crab, meat, chive, biscuit, egg, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.