I’ve been wanting to try to make crab cakes for some time now. I’ve never eaten them before. This was my attempt at making shrimp/crab cakes and they came out wonderful. I don’t have exact measurements and I didn’t go by a recipe.

I used a small tin of crabmeat, to have more filling I added some thawed frozen shrimps. Drain the crab meat, add chopped shrimp, egg, chopped green onion, couple of drops of sesame oil, season with salt/pepper and add breadcrumbs. Combine this into a fairly thick “dough” that will hold together. Shape into small patties and panfry for a couple of minutes on each side. The amount I had was only enough for 6 cakes.

Best eaten warm with some chili sauce. I’ll be making these more often .

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Another day of cooking at mom’s. For the shrimp combine flour, salt/pepper and beer to get a slightly running batter than will coat the shrimp. Deep fry these until cooked, say about 2 to 3 minutes.

For the stir fry, fry the chopped onion, garlic and ginger. Cut the panga in bite size pieces and add to the pan. When the panga is almost ready add chopped pak choi. After a minute of stir frying add stock, a bit of water and soy sauce to create a nice sauce. Super quick and easy.

Serve together with the shrimp on some rice. Instead of pak choi, you could also add mange tout or perhaps some broccoli. It’s also nice to replace the onion with some spring onions, add these towards the end though.

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