Low Carb Air Fryer Crab Cakes

Crab Cakes - Oh Yeah!
I love Crab Cakes, but there's the problem with breadcrumbs.  With a simple sub, we conquered that problem and turned out crabby, delicious, crispy crab cakes.  My recipe is really easy - it's taken directly from the back of the Chicken of the Sea can.  Instead of Bread Crumbs I took a cup of riced cauliflower, microwaved it 5 min., then squeezed all the liquid from it using a piece of Cheesecloth (you could also use a dishtowel).  Then I added 1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese (run the cheese through the food processor to make a finer powder (think cornmeal)).

Mix all the ingredients together, using a spoon, you want to keep the crab in large pieces and not break it up too much.  Form the Crab mixture into patties.  I use a piece of parchment paper, to form the patties on.  Using parchment paper keeps your work surface clean and it's really easy to transfer the crab cakes to the basket of the Air Fryer using a spatula.

Here are the Crab cakes just put in the preheated basket (preheat Air Fryer to 400 degrees).  I sprayed then with a little bit of Trader Joe's Coconut oil spray.

After 4 minutes, open the Air Fryer and check the basket, the cakes were golden brown so I used the spatula to flip them over and sprayed this side with a little coconut oil spray.  Back in the Air Fryer for another 4 minutes.

Here's the final result...I served them with Asparagus spears and low Carb Tarter Sauce.  here's the recipes:

Low Carb Crab Cakes with Healthy Homemade Tarter Sauce

Crab Cakes: 

16 Oz. chicken of the Sea refrigerated can of Crab

1 beaten Egg

1 TBS. Dijon Mustard

1 tsp Worcester Sauce (make sure GMO and Gluten Free, if not use coconut aminos)

1 tsp. Seafood Seasoning

Hot Sauce (optional)

1 cup Riced Cauliflower

1/4 c. Grated Parmesan

Preheat Air Fryer to 400 degrees.

Put cauliflower in a microwaveable bowl with 1 tbs. water, cover and microwave 4-5 minutes.  Let cool slightly, so you can handle it, put in a piece of cheesecloth or dishtowel and wring out the liquid from the cauliflower.  You will be left with a ball of cauliflower fiber.  Run the shredded Parmesan through the food processor to turn it into a more bread crumb type consistency.  Mix all ingredients (including the Cauliflower fiber and Parmesan), except the crab, together in a bowl.  Gently fold in the crab.

Form into patties on piece of parchment paper.  Using a spatula, transfer the patties to the basket of the Air Fryer.  Spray lightly with Coconut oil spray (optional).  Air Fry for 4 minutes, check the patties, if golden brown and "fried" flip over.  Air Fry other side 4 minutes.  Serve with Homemade Low Carb Tarter Sauce.  This is also good with spicy sugar Free Ketchup (Mix siracha sauce with sugarless ketchup a dropper-full of liquid stevia to taste)

Tarter Sauce:

1/2 c. Mayonnaise (either homemade or avocado oil)

2 TBS. Pickle relish (you want to find  sugar free variety - if you can't do like I do, chop dill pickles (I use my homemade fermented ones) in the food processor and add either a dropper-full of liquid Stevia or a packet of Sweet Leaf Stevia or Truvia)

1/2 tsp. Dried Dill

mix all together and serve.