Old Bay-con Crab Balls

[Professor_Leakey]

I decided to try making crab cakes for the first time today and they turned out really well.  

1 large potato
4 green onions chopped
2 Tb butter
1 Tb chopped garlic
5 slices of bacon
The meat from 5 Blue Crab
1 egg yolk
Japanese style Panko breadcrumbs
Old Bay seasoning

Bake the potato and put it in the fridge to cool down.

Lay 5 slices of bacon on a baking sheet and liberally dust it with Old Bay seasoning.  Bake in the oven at 350 flipping occasionally until it is nice and crispy, 20 minutes or so to make what I call Old-Baycon.  

Set it aside, up high so the dog or kids don’t get it.  When it cools down, chop it up into small bits.  

Take the cooled down potato from the fridge and scrape it out into a bowl.  Melt the butter in a skillet and add the chopped garlic.  Cook for just a couple minutes until the butter starts bubbling and then add the garlic butter to the potato. Add the chopped bacon and mix up well.    

In a large bowl mix together the old baycon garlic potato mixture, chopped green onions, crab meat, and then salt to taste.  Add an egg yolk to moisten and mix well…this will make the panko crumbs stick. Form into small patties or balls and then coat heavily with panko crumbs.  Fry these in a skillet until golden brown on all sides.  



This is very good served with an over-easy egg and garnished with chopped green onions.  
  

[Ronster]

Looks good!

[Crab Shack]

Wow, looks really delicious!

[tattoo]

good job . looks good.

[jinocrab88]