Gateau of Crab Recipe
Crab cakes with an orange fennel cream sauce
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups softened cream cheese
- 1/2 cup grated smoked cheddar
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 whole egg
- 5 large egg yolks
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
- 1/3 cup diced, sauteed and cooled red onion
- 2 tablespoons Tabasco sauce
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 3/4 cups crabmeat
- 2 tablespoons freshly minced chives
- Butter for greasing molds
- 2 cups diced Spanish onions
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3 1/2 cups diced fennel bulb (no stalk)
- 1/3 cup Pernod
- 1 cup orange juice
- 2 oranges zested, sectioned and juiced
- 1 each bay leaf
- 4 cups heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
- 1 fennel bulb, sliced paper thin (no stalk)
- 1/2 cup late harvest Riesling vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 cup halved grape tomatoes
Crab Cakes
Orange Fennel Cream Sauce
Fennel and Tomato Slaw
Instructions
- Heat oven to 225 F.
- Put cream cheese, cheddar and heavy cream into bowl; mix until smooth.
- Mix in egg and egg yolks.
- Scrape down sides of bowl.
- Add Parmesan and sauteed onions.
- Add Tabasco and lemon juice.
- Fold in crab and chives.
- Chill mixture.
- Put crab mixture in souffle dishes or cupcake molds.
- Make sure the molds are greased with butter (see note).
- Fill almost to the top of molds.
- Bake until golden brown and slightly risen, 25-30 minutes.
- Let crab cakes cool before unmolding.
- Heat stainless-steel pot on medium.
- Add onions, fennel and salt; cook 5 minutes.
- Add Pernod and flame off the alcohol.
- Add orange juice, zest, segments and bay leaf; simmer 10 minutes.
- Add cream and extract.
- Cook until reduced in volume by half.
- Puree in blender until smooth.
- Pass through strainer; keep warm.
- For fennel and tomato slaw, put fennel in stainless-steel bowl or glass bowl.
- Add vinegar, salt, and pepper; let sit for 2 hours at room temperature.
- Mix in oil and sliced tomatoes.
- Warm cake in 300 F oven until heated through.
- Top with orange-fennel cream, then slaw.
Crab Cakes
Orange Fennel Cream Sauce
Fennel and Tomato Slaw
Putting It Together