Crab Cakes With Chipotle Peppers

Rita~'s Note:

These fresh, crisp & tender crab cake has a nice spicy smokey taste that has a Southern kick to them. Fresh Lump crabmeat, mixed with celery, scallions, peppers and chipotle peppers in adobe sauce fried up and served on a bed of cilantro, lime slices and a nice dollop of my Smokey tartar sauce ( Smokey Tartar Sauce ). These are slightly smokey, tender on the inside and crisp on the outside. You can make these into little patties and serve as an appetizer. You MUST use LUMP crab meat and be careful not to break it up. There's nothing like sweet crab meat!

• Total Time: 21 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 6 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 2-4

Yield: 4.0 patties

• ½ lb fresh lump crabmeat
• 1 cup breadcrumbs
• 1 tablespoon chipotle mustard (Or your favorite)
• 2 scallions , sliced thin
• ½ stalk celery , sliced thin
• ½ yellow bell peppers or ½ red bell pepper , diced fine
• 1 egg
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• 1 -2 chipotle chile in adobo , diced fine, if you don't like the heat remove the seeds
• 1 tablespoon adobo sauce
• salt and pepper
• ¼ cup flour , for dusting
• oil (for frying)

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients except the lump crab meat, flour& oil.
2. Add the crabmeat gentle not to break it apart.
3. You want to see nice lumps of crabmeat when you cut into it.
4. Make four patties they will be delicate don't be afraid to bring them into a pattie.
5. Dust each with flour place on a dish covered with plastic wrap and chill for one hour.
6. In a large pan pour enough oil to coat bottom of pan.
7. Brown on each side till nice crisp and brown.
8. Just a couple of minutes each side.
9. Serve with Smokey Tartar Sauce.

Reviews

[Cilantro in Canada]

This was a very good recipe, but I did find that even 1 chipolte pepper made it too hot for us and we like our food spicy. Next time I will cut down on the peppers just a little. This are easy to make. Thanks for the recipe.

[Charmie777]

Very good and very spicy!!! They came out so pretty too!

[iris5555]

Mmmmm! I baked my crabcakes in a 400 degree oven for about 25 minutes, then broiled for a bit and they came out well. The chipotle added a nice smoky flavor. Thanks, Rita!