Crabless Crab Cakes Recipe

These luscious cakes are filled with zucchini, red onion, and cheese (or soy cheese, for a vegan version), instead of crab. They’re a snap to mix and cook, kids love them, and they’re pretty as a picture.

Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard give them so much snappy flavor, nobody will miss the crab.

INGREDIENTS
2 cups grated zucchini
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
3/4 cup grated cheddar cheese or soy cheddar
1/2 cup finely diced red onion
1 egg, or egg replacer, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons mayonnaise or vegan mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup olive oil

1. Combine zucchini, bread crumbs, cheese, onion, egg, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl.

2. Shape the mixture into 6 cakes.

3. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the cakes and cook 7 to 10 minutes on each side, turning once, until golden and cooked through.

Serves 6.

Read more: Food, All recipes, Entrees, cheese, crab cakes, onion, zucchini

Adapted from The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys, by Deirdre Imus (Rodale Press, 2004).

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Jennifer C.

9:55PM PDT on Aug 21, 2011

Yummy! Thanks for the recipe.

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Lin M.

7:28PM PDT on Mar 15, 2011

Does'/t seem like it'd taste like crab to me...

Mervi R.

2:35AM PDT on May 2, 2010

Sounds brilliant, thanks!

BOHAR R.

5:36AM PDT on Apr 15, 2009

Stacy, I'd love to have your recipe. Can you post it here?

Régine

Stacy K.

9:03PM PDT on Sep 17, 2008

i have some very rich veggie boullion paste "better than boullion" packaged in a jar that might be a good replacement -- i know when i've tasted the vegan W. sauce it just tasted like very salty veggie paste to me. i'm very excited to try this recipe -- something else to do w/what tends to be growing out of your ears at the end of the summer besides zucchini bread. oh, &, most soy cheese isn't vegan either -- most of it contains the protein casein (derived from milk) to make its texture more palateable & to make it melt like real cheese. i think vegan rella might be one of the only vegan soy cheeses on the market. u can also make a good cheesy sauce w/a flour roux, garlic powder, turmeric, salt, soy sauce, oil & lots of nutritional yeast. contact me if you want the recipe. i got it from the new farm vegetarian cookbook & have fooled alot of folks using it in mac n "cheese".

Sarah M.

6:49PM PDT on Sep 16, 2008

Worcestershire sauce is not vegetarian, however, there is a vegetarian/vegan version.