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Taste Festivals recipes Crab cakes recipe

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Date Published:
19/12/2007

Celebrate the best of British seafood with freshly made crab cakes from Dakota for Taste of Edinburgh

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 325g Maris Piper potatoes
  • knob of butter, softened
  • 3-4 sprigs fresh tarragon
  • 325g freshly prepared crab meat
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped chives
  • good pinch dry English mustard
  • 3-4 tbsp mustard mayonnaise
  • 50g plain flour
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 100g panko crumbs
  • olive oil for frying
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • lightly dressed watercress leaves
  • tartare sauce, to serve

Method: How to make crab cakes

1. Peel the potatoes and cut into even-sized pieces. Place in a large pan and cover with water. Add salt and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat slightly and simmer for about 15 minutes until tender. Drain in a colander, then pass through a sieve.

2. Mix the sieved potato with the butter. Chop the tarragon leaves finely and stir into the potatoes. Add the crab meat, chives, mustard and enough mustard mayonnaise to bring everything together. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

3. Form into roughly 80g fishcakes. Coat the cakes in flour, then beaten egg and breadcrumbs; set aside.

4. Heat the oil in a non stick frying pan and cook the fishcakes for a few minutes on each side until golden brown and heated through. Serve with a dressed watercress salad and tartare sauce.

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Recipe © courtesy of Roy Brett at Dakota

To find out more about Taste Festivals and to buy tickets visit the Taste Festivals website.

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