How to make delicious and flavorful Hue crab cakes

The land of Hue is not only famous for its poetic scenery and ancient relics, but also for many famous and delicious specialties. Hue cuisine always brings a very unique flavor that is not found anywhere else.

Here, let’s go to the kitchen with Bach Hoa XANH and see how to make delicious and flavorful Hue crab cakes , a famous specialty of the romantic ancient capital.

Prepare
15 Minutes Processing
45 minutes For
4-5 people eat

Ingredients for making Hue crab cakes

Ingredients for making Hue crab cakes (Internet source)

• 350g ground pork
• 100g minced shrimp meat
• 200g crab meat
• 200g crab leg meat
• Crab bricks with oil sauce
• Garlic, purple onion
• Sugar, salt, seasoning, pepper, ground pepper, baking powder, potato flour, cashew oil, cooking oil.

How to make Hue crab cakes

Step 1Marinate meat and freeze meat

Prepare a small bowl, put in the bowl 4 tablespoons of ice cold water, 6 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, 4 teaspoons of potato flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. and stir until the mixture is completely dissolved.

You put the ground pork in a zip bag, pour the mixture into it and start stuffing the meat evenly with your hands to absorb the seasoning . After stuffing the meat, spread the meat evenly in a zip bag and put it in the freezer of the refrigerator for 1 to 4 hours .

Shrimp you chopped just right and then put in the freezer for 1 to 4 hours like with ground pork.

Marinate meat and stuff it

Step 2Sweeping meat by machine

After leaving the pork and shrimp meat in the freezer for long enough, take them both out and put them in the meat slicer, turn on level 1 . When the mixture becomes more elastic, you temporarily turn off the machine and put in 2 tablespoons of cashew oil, 1 tablespoon of minced garlic and 2 tablespoons of minced shallot and 3 teaspoons of whole pepper and continue to turn on the fan. You continue to whisk until the mixture becomes very elastic and smooth.

Good tip: While you are brushing, you should often touch the bottom of the blender to test the cold, if the cold is gone, you can add 3 or 4 ice cubes , the meat must be cold to make the new product flexible and delicious. In addition, during the scanning process, you should let the machine rest about 3 or 4 times , lift the meat sticking to the wall of the machine, let the machine rest for a while and then continue to sweep, make sure the sweeper does not get hot, affecting the the coldness of the meat.

Sweeping meat by machine

Step 3Mix crab cakes

After the meat mixture has been kneaded to a moderate consistency, put the meat in a bowl, add 200g of crab body meat, 200g of crab leg meat, 2 teaspoons of oil-fried crab bricks and 2 teaspoons of ground pepper , mix well together.

After mixing, you put the crab cakes in a zip bag and store in the refrigerator to preserve, when you want to use, you take the rolls to steam or process with other dishes.

Mix crab cakes

Step 4Steamed crab cakes

You scoop out the crab cakes into a bowl and put them in the steamer for about 20 to 30 minutes to cook evenly. Before steaming, you can use duck egg yolk or cashew oil or a mixture of the above two ingredients to spread a layer on the surface of the cake, making it more delicious.

Good tip: After mixing, you can take out a little steamed rice cake to see if it’s right and then add spices to suit the taste of each family.

Step 5Finished product

Hue crab cakes, whether fragrant or flavorful, are extremely rich and intense. The chewy crab cakes, the crunchiness of shrimp meat and the pungent taste of pepper will make you fall in love with it.

Combine Hue crab cakes with dishes like vermicelli, vermicelli or soup

Enjoy

You can also combine crab cakes with dishes such as vermicelli, vermicelli or soup, … all extremely delicious.

Enjoy Hue crab cakes

How to preserve Hue crab cakes?

After making Hue crab cakes, you can use it to cook or eat with other dishes, if you haven’t eaten or used it all, you can put it in a sealed container and store it in the freezer. Stored in this way, it does not last long without affecting the taste.

What is delicious Hue crab cake?

Hue crab cakes are delicious to cook or fry

Hue crab cakes instead of processing or eating with familiar dishes such as: Hue beef noodle soup, Hue noodle soup, … You can completely use crab cakes to cook the following dishes:

• Crab cakes cooked with spinach soup: If you love cool spinach soup, you can cook it with Hue crab cakes to ensure both delicious and healthy. The soup is rich, sweet, and rich in nutrients.
• Hue crab cake um: This dish is very simple and quick to make, but it is extremely delicious with rice. Whether fried or braised… they bring out the perfect taste.
• Hue crab cakes fried with rice: This is a new dish, both delicious and very good for health, especially for lazy children, helping to supplement calcium and overcome minor illnesses.
• Hue crab cakes braised with pork: Each piece of rich crab cake combined with delicious chewy pork, this is a suitable dish on cold days, especially when it is very “consuming” rice.

So the Hue crab cake is finished, ready for the family tray of rice. When you are bored of the common fish, pork, and beef cakes, try the above method to make delicious and flavorful Hue crab cakes to change dishes for your family. Good luck.

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