MARIA'S CRAB CAKES

These are Maria's halfway famous crab cakes.  You can get creative and replace a few condiments to your taste.

Here is what you will need:

2 cups of crab meat
2 eggs
2 cups of bread crumbs
1/4 cup of minced onion (yellow)
1/3 cup of corn grains
1/3 to abou 1/4 cup of mayo
2 teaspoon of dried mustard
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 teaspoon of salt - to taste
2 table spoons of cilantro (chopped)
2 celery sticks (chopped)
1/3 Green bell pepper (finely chopped)
1 table spoon of minced garlic
1 teaspoon of worchestershire sauce
1 mini red pepper and 1 mini yellow red pepper chopped finely

garlic salt to taste
Old Bay seasoning to taste.

Chop all vegetables finely, use a small food processor or whichever one you have at hand.
In a large bowl, begin to put all ingredients together.  Mix as you add.  Take the Crab meat, on a separate plate feel for broken bones.  Normally I use Claw meat as it is much tastier and has a lot more, plus, it is less expensive.

Add the eggs, the crab meat, mix well.  Add the Mayo and mix well.  If you see that the mixture looks too moist, continue to add bread crumbs.  The Bread Crumbs use the regular bread, just use the food processor to finely grind the bread.  OR you could you some of the Italian style bread crumbs but the texture it is not the same.

After you have mixed all very well. Place a medium sauce pan to heat oil, approximately 1 cup of oil to help have enough for you to fry.  You can add the SALT and Black pepper to taste at the very end.  It is important to consider the condiments that already have salt added: garlic salt, mayo, worchestershire sauce, etc...

Use a cookie rack to place the crab cakes and so the excess oil can drip.

What to serve with?

Get creative and make a yellow rice, or white, whichever is your preference.  You can also use this to make the crab cakes for crab cake sandwiches. Let your creativity open up and serve something healthy.

I normally serve with Puerto Rican Yellow rice, broccoli, and a home made sauce.

SAUCE:

4 Table spoons of mayonnaise
1 1/2 teaspoon of mustard
2 table spoons of pickle slices
2 table spoons of pickle juice
1/4 teaspoon of dill weed (to taste)
1/4 teaspoon of old bay seasoning
1/2 table spoon of ketchup
2 table spoons of yellow onion chopped

Half of a mini red sweet pepper for color and appeal

In a food processor place all ingredients together and blend to taste.  If you like it watery, than add more pickle juice.

Note: you can add or replace any condiments as you see fit.  Also, the image is not the best, it is not burnt it is the picture my phone took :( I will work on those for next time.  And presentation wise as well.