Crab cake bites are baked to a golden brown slightly crunchy perfection instead of fried. Low calorie, gluten free, high protein appetizer!
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I’m finally getting to kick off appetizer week at Hungry Hobby with these delicious golden crusted crab cake bites. Mr. Hungry has been asking for these for AGES, but, the traditional recipes call for bread crumbs and lots of oil to fry them in. First of all, I’m not about to stand over the stove and cook mini crab cakes 3 at a time. Second, why fry when you can bake and get the same delicious golden brown crust for half the calories? You guys know, I’m not afraid of calories, but I still try to be smart about them when I develop recipes. Baking these is so much easier, tastes delicious, and saves calories so overall it’s a win! I also swapped greek yogurt for the same reason, you could use mayo but I thought the yogurt added a nice tart taste to the bites!
PS I got my crab meat at Costco in the refrigerator section. It was $22 bucks for 16 ounces, so not the cheapest thing I’ve ever bought in my life. That being said, it was definitely worth it as a fun little treat and they were super easy to whip up! I think they would be a perfect Christmas Eve or New Years Eve appetizer, because we are all about the appetizers in our house right now!
Crab Cake Bites
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Crab Cake Bites
Ingredients
Meat:
- 5 ounces 2% plain Greek yogurt
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoon Worcestershire
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoon old bay seasoning
- 16 ounces crab meat
- 1/3 cup coconut flourCrust
- ½ cup almond meal
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon old bay seasoninglemon to garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Line a baking sheet with foil and grease the foil.
- Combine yogurt, egg, Worcestershire, Dijon mustard, 2 teaspoons old bay seasoning, crab meat, and coconut flour in a medium or large bowl. Use a cookie scoop to make the crab mixture into the balls.
- Mix almond meal, salt, and 1/2 teaspoon old bay seasoning in a small bowl. Roll each ball in the almond meal crust and place on a baking sheet.
- Place the balls in the oven and bake for 16-25 minutes or until they are golden brown on the outside and hot in the center. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.
- Garnish with lemon wedges and serve with cocktail sauce!
Nutrition
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These look so good! I love crab cakes in all forms and am all about the appetizers during the holiday season. I will definitely need to give them a try. Hope you have a great day!
Right? My hubby is appetizer obsessed I can’t keep up!
You did say you like high protein appetizers! This sounds great! I would love to stick a bunch of these in s pita and eat it like a falafel pita…..crab cake falafel mmmmmm weird or delicious. Lol I vote delicious
lol I wouldn’t have thought of that! Let me know how it is if you try it! ha ha!
This is my kind of appetizer!
Perfect appetizer!! Everything you want in a crab cake in a small bite!
These look delicious. Could you substitute gluten free Panko for the coconut flour crust & the almond meal?
I think that would be fine! I just don’t know if it would a 1 to 1 substitution because coconut flour is ULTRA ABSORBANT. Start with matching the almond meal and then add 1 tbsp at a time until they are dry enough to form balls.
Can I substitute crab with tuna n make tuna bites instead …will that taste good?
I mean, it would taste like tuna instead of crab, but I think it would work and I think it would be good! I also have this round up of tuna recipes –> https://hungryhobby.net/healthy-canned-tuna-recipes/