Crab Cakes Eggs Benedict
📝 Ingredients
- 1/2 cup finely chopped celery
- 1/3 cup fine dry bread crumbs
- 4 Eggs
- 3 English Muffins
- 1 package Knorr Hollandaise Sauce Mix
- 3 drops hot sauce
- 1 pound lump crab meat
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons minced parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon seafood seasoning
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
👨🍳 Instructions
Prepare the crab cakes:
- Cook onion and celery in 4 tablespoons butter over moderately low heat, until tender and transfer to a bowl. Stir in crab and bread crumbs.
- In a small bowl whisk together mayonnaise, seafood seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, parsley, and salt and pepper to taste and stir into crab mixture until combined well.
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper. Form crab mixture into 6 flattened rounds. Chill crab cakes, covered with plastic wrap, at least 1 hour.
- Heat 1 tablespoon butter over moderate heat until foam subsides and cook half of crab cakes until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Cook remaining cakes in remaining tablespoon butter in same manner.
Prepare Knorr Hollandaise Sauce according to package instructions.
Poach the eggs:
- Fill a medium sized sauce pan half way with water. Add 1/2 teaspoon of white vinegar (this is optional but the vinegar helps hold the egg together). Bring to a gentle boil and carefully add eggs (1-2 at a time works best). Poach eggs for 2-3 minutes or until yolk has set to your preference. Remove eggs one at a time with a slotted spoon.
- Assemble: Layer ingredients as follows: English muffin, crab cakes (1 each muffin), eggs, Hollandaise sauce.
📊 Nutrition Facts
- Calories: 899.19 kcal
- Fat: 58.89 g
- Saturated Fat: 21.05 g
- Carbohydrates: 41.53 g
- Net Carbohydrates: 38.6 g
- Sugar: 2.69 g
- Cholesterol: 394.05 mg
- Sodium: 2262.47 mg
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Alcohol %: 0 %
- Protein: 42.16 g
- Vitamin B12: 14.29 µg
- Selenium: 77.44 µg
- Vitamin K: 115.27 µg
- Copper: 1.58 mg
- Zinc: 10.52 mg
- Phosphorus: 572.05 mg
- Folate: 146.52 µg
- Vitamin B2: 0.51 mg
- Vitamin A: 1389.01 IU
- Magnesium: 105.97 mg
- Manganese: 0.47 mg
- Vitamin B1: 0.33 mg
- Vitamin C: 17.6 mg
- Vitamin B6: 0.42 mg
- Iron: 3.52 mg
- Vitamin B5: 1.93 mg
- Calcium: 184.73 mg
- Vitamin B3: 3.55 mg
- Potassium: 610.97 mg
- Vitamin E: 2.58 mg
- Fiber: 2.93 g
- Vitamin D: 1.67 µg