Florida’s Crab Cakes Royale

Name: Florida’s Crab Cakes Royale
Prep time: 8 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 16 ounces, weight FOR THE CAKES:; 2 whole Fresh Lump Crab Meat (From Seafood Market); ½ cups Egg Whites, Beaten; 1 teaspoon Seasoned Bread Crumbs; 1 teaspoon Chili Powder; 1 teaspoon Black Pepper; 3 cups Fresh Flat Leaf Parsley (chopped Finely); ¼ cups Homemade Lemon-Onion Potato Chips (or Another Potato Chip Variety). See My TK Recipe Posted For Them.; 2 dashes FOR THE SERVING SAUCE (OPTIONAL):; 1 whole Sour Cream

Just short of scrumptious, these Florida crab cakes are not made with a lot of filler. Pure wonderful crab meat fresh from the seafood market!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients

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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Florida’s Crab Cakes Royale

Serves 4

Prep8 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

908Calories

65 gProtein

8 gFat

142 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Potato Chip	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
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.

Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Crab + meattop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together448 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Crab + saucetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together238 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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