The best crab cake recipes are simple to make and yummy to eat. There are hundreds of crab cake recipes available, and some are just much better than others.

What Makes A Good Crab Cake?

The seasonings you choose to use play an important role in the resulting flavor of your crab cake. Using too much salt will spoil the flavor; remember that crab has quite a lot of sodium already in it.

The quality of ingredients you use is important. Use only the freshest celery or spinach available. Remember that the better quality ingredients you use, the better tasting your crab cakes will be.

The method you choose to cook them will have different outcomes, too. Baking your cakes will draw out more moisture than frying your cakes, and so the baked recipes will have an added amount of wet ingredients.

What Type Of Crab Should You Use?

There are several types of crab that you can easily use in your crab cake making. We found a delightful Dungeness Crab Cakes recipe and included it on the website. Dungeness Crab is easier to find than some other types of crab.

To make them with Blue Crab, use only fresh crabmeat, not pasteurized crabmeat. The cooking process for this crab species is the same as for the Dungeness crab, however, the results will not be the same. These crab cakes are chocked-full of delicious blue crab meat and are absolutely worthy of being in the "best crab cake recipes" category!

You can use canned crabmeat, too. Whatever you have on hand will be fine with any of these great crab cake recipes. I usually opt for fresh breadcrumbs over the canned variety, leaving the bread out to dry a bit before I turn it into breadcrumbs.

What Is The Best Method For Cooking Them?

These recipes I have the best results with can be deep-fried, pan-fried or lightly drizzled with oil and baked in the oven from 350 to 400 degrees.

Deep frying your crab cakes will produce a crispier outside than baking. Pan frying your recipe is another option to produce a crispier cake, but the clean up is a bit more than if you choose to bake them.

Baking your crab recipe is the healthiest option. Use a good olive oil and turn them halfway through to ensure even browning. Be certain that your oven is up to temperature before you place your baking sheet inside. At a constant oven temperature of 350, they should be ready in approximately twenty to twenty-five minutes. Baking them at 400 degrees will ensure a crisper crust and they will be ready in a shorter amount of time.

How Long Does It Take?

Depending on which method you choose to cook your crab, they should be ready for you in under 6 minutes.

When pan frying, allow two to three minutes per side, turning halfway through the process.

Broiling will take as much as 5 minutes per side, depending on how hot your own broiler gets.

Deep frying is the quickest method of cooking because they cook evenly all over at the same time.

What Is The Best Crab Cake Recipe?

I'm sure you can ask a hundred crab lovers from all walks of life and get a hundred different answers and a hundred different crab cake recipes!

I have tried many different crab cake recipes, and the best ones I have posted on the website for everyone to enjoy as much as we have