Mock Crab Cakes

September 11, 2011

As promised, here's a recipe for mock crab cakes! It's based on a recipe for existent crab cakes inward Sri Owen's Indonesian Food. Michael efficiently chopped upwards all the aromatic elements spell the potatoes boiled. I mashed upwards but about chickpeas together with stirred together a cornflour glue every bit replacements for the crab meat together with egg.

While the shallow-frying inward a real hot wok had me a niggling anxious, these turned out real nicely; most of the cakes held together amongst a lightly golden crust. Inside they're a niggling mushy - I'd similar to endeavor leaving the chickpeas half-mashed adjacent fourth dimension for a niggling extra texture, though I fearfulness it would likewise Pb to to a greater extent than crumbling.

These mock crab cakes derive almost all their flavor from the 'extras' - the lemongrass, chilli flakes, kaffir lime leaves together with ginger are non delicate. It's of import to chop them upwards every bit finely every bit y'all (or your cooking partner!) can. I liked dragging the patties across my plate through the rujak dressing, together with I wonder what dipping sauce I could otherwise serve them with. I intend it'd commencement amongst kecap manis together with tamarind.

Mock crab cakes

(adapted from a recipe for existent crab cakes
inward Sri Owen's Indonesian Food)

2 x 400g cans chickpeas, rinsed together with drained, together with hence lightly mashed

225g waxy potatoes, peeled together with boiled until tender, together with hence mashed

3 tablespoons finely chopped trammel onions

3 tablespoons finely chopped apartment foliage parsley

2 tablespoons finely chopped kaffir lime leaves

1 tablespoon finely chopped lemongrass, inner business office only

1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger

1/2 teaspoon dry reason turmeric

1 teaspoon chilli flakes

1 teaspoon dry reason coriander

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 tablespoons cornflour, made into a glue amongst two tablespoons water

vegetable fossil oil for shallow frying

The ingredients volition stimulate got a spell to prepare. Drain together with rinse those chickpeas, larn the potatoes on to boil, together with and hence produce all that chopping. Mash the chickpeas together with potatoes together inward a bowl, together with hence stir through the remaining ingredients (frying fossil oil excepted). Form the mixture into pocket-size patties amongst your hands together with house them on a tray. Refrigerate the patties for virtually one-half an hour.

Heat the fossil oil inward a frypan or wok together with shallow-fry the patties inward batches until they shape a lightly golden crust. Drain the cooked patties on absorbent paper. Serve amongst salad together with a sauce of your choice.