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Southern crabcakes

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2/3 cup minced green bell peppers
  • 2/3 cup minced onion
  • 2/3 cup minced celery
  • 2 lbs fresh crabmeat (or half fresh/half immitation)
  • 3/4 cup fine dry breadcrumbs
  • 2/3 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 egg white
  • 1/4 tsp freshly ground pepper
  • dash of hot pepper sauce
  • fine dry breadcrumbs for coating
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

 

Saute butter, green bell peppers, onion and celery. Mix with crabmeat, 3/4 cup bread crumbs, mayonnaise and egg white in a large bowl. Blend in pepper and hot pepper sauce.

 

Brush two baking sheets with 1 tbsp of melted butter.

 

Form into 2 or 3 inch patties.

 

Bake for 10 minutes.

History

Mitzi's friend Gale Bevan gave her this recipe while on a vacation to Top Sail Islands, North Carolina, in the summer of 1985. The Willis' were spending the week on the island with their cousin Tanya and the Bevan family.