Wild Ginger's Dungeness crab cakes with lime dipping sauce Recipe - Los Angeles Times

Wild Ginger's Dungeness crab cakes with lime dipping sauce Recipe - Los Angeles Times

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Seattle chef Tom Douglas likes to recount how he moved to that hotbed of Dungeness crab in 1977 and could not find a crab cake to save his mid-Atlantic soul. He put one on his first menu, adapting a...

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Ingredients

  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tablespoon Southeast Asian red curry paste
  • 2 green onions, white part only, minced
  • 2 tablespoons minced shallots
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons minced cilantro stems
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons peeled and grated fresh ginger
  • 1 pound Dungeness crabmeat, drained, picked clean of shell and lightly squeezed if wet
  • 2 cups panko bread crumbs
  • 3 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lime juice
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 teaspoons sambal oelek
  • 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh dill
  • 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh mint
  • 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh Thai or regular basil
  • Peanut or canola oil for frying

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