Easy Crab Cake Sauce

Ahhh.....crab cakes.....If you love seafood, you could never have missed out on these delicately delicious, crisp patties that are pretty capable of serenading and tempting even the most austere of eaters if he/she has had even a single tryst with these heavenly appetizers! Made primarily from crab meat with generous inclusions of an assorted range of other ingredients like bread crumbs, mayonnaise, milk, eggs, yellow onions, pink radishes, red or green peppers and other seasonings, crab cakes act as the pleasurable beginnings of a lavish gastronomical voyage on a special occasion, especially when you're celebrating by eating out or you have luncheon or dinner company at your place. The best thing to complement a well prepared platter of crab cakes is a good crab cake sauce. Here are a couple of easy crab cake sauce recipes that would take your seafood patties to a different level altogether!

Simple Crab Cake Sauce Recipes that You Can Try Yourself

The following are two of the most basic yet the best crab cake sauce recipes that would court those crab cakes, romance your taste buds and will take your senses on a trip to gustatory indulgence! Check out how to prepare great crab cake sauce the simple and easy way.

Herbal Sauce for Crab Cakes
This sauce for crab cakes involves the rejuvenating undertones of fresh herbs and imparts a refreshing essence to the entire eating experience.

Ingredients

• Fresh Basil - 1 tablespoon
• Fresh Dill - 1 tablespoon
• Fresh Parsley - 1 tablespoon
• Fresh Coriander - 1 tablespoon
• Lemon Juice - 2 teaspoonfuls
• Grated Lemon Rind - 1 lemon
• Mayonnaise - 4 tablespoonfuls

Method of Preparation

• Soak the basil, dill, parsley and coriander in boiling hot water for about 8-10 seconds;
• Take the herbs out of the hot water and run cold water over them;
• Drain the herbs well and put them, along with all the remaining ingredients, into a blender and blend till the herbs are finely ground and the entire mixture has assumed a smooth texture;
• Pour the mixture into a ceramic bowl and put it inside the refrigerator to allow the flavor to come out properly and the individual essences of each ingredient to mingle with the rest in a harmonious blend.

You can substitute mayonnaise with crème fraiche if you wish. For those who are not aware of this term, crème fraiche means fresh cream in French and is a type of sour cream (soured by using a bacterial culture) which has a 28% butter fat content and has a pH of 4.5. It is, however, thicker and less sour than standard sour cream.

Crab Cake Apricot Sauce
Move over the traditional Rémouladeand mustard crab cake dipping sauces! Try out the following easy crab cake sauce with apricot preserves and subtle spices and you'll never regret straying from the conventional recipes for crab cake sauce!

Ingredients

• Apricot Preserves - 1 ½ cups
• Lemon Juice - 2 teaspoonfuls
• Ground Nutmeg - ¼ teaspoon
• Ground Cinnamon - ¼ teaspoon
• Water - ½ cup

Method of Preparation

• Mix the apricot preserves with water in a saucepan and bring to boil;
• Simmer for about 5-7 minutes and keep stirring the mixture as you do so;
• Take the saucepan off the flame and add the rest of the ingredients (lemon juice, nutmeg, cinnamon) to the apricot mixture;

You can either allow the sauce to cool to room temperature or serve hot. Do not refrigerate as this will not permit the flavor to infuse well. Freshly grilled crab cakes accompanied by moderately warm apricot dip - that's a match made in heaven!

Try out these easy sauce recipes for crab cakes and treat your folks to some delectable crab cakes experiences. Serve them as hors d'oeuvre, eat them as snacks or hog on them just for the sake of it, these sauces will give your crab cakes just the right accompaniment to accentuate the taste of your crab cake recipes without dimming out the delicate crab meat flavor! Bon Appétit!