Hello -

I was sleeved July 2nd and have been SOOO looking forward to some soft foods. I made this and ate one for Breakfast today!! Who says you can't have crab for breakfast?! My goal is 60-70g of Protein a day, and if I can do that without drinking a shake - I am all for it!

1 can/jar fresh picked crab (mine was 12 oz) HEB Plus carries some good stuff!

1 egg

2 TBLSP Cream cheese

1/4 C. fresh SHREDDED parmesan

4 Ritz crackers

1 tsp. Old Bay spice

1/2 tsp onion powder

1 tsp Cayenne Pepper (I like spicy - leave out if you don't!!)

Mix together - weigh out 3 oz portions

heat a TINY bit of olive oil i a pan, put crab into pan, flatten out and let sizzle - about 3-4 minutes on medium, then flip for another 3-4 minutes.

Sauce:

I cup sour cream

i small/medium avacado - add into sour cream

1/4 cup diced cilantro (leave out if you are one of those unfortunate souls that doesn't like it!)

juice of one lime

(can even add some capers if you like)

Serve on side of your crabby Pattie - I can eat about 3/4 of one patty - and I am hitting about 22g of protein -

YUM!!!!

Sounds great! I can live off crab and avocados alone. Thanks!

This is what I'm going to make for dinner tonight. Thank you for sharing............

I am going to make this too!! It sounds FANTASTIC!!! Thank you sooo much for sharing!!

This sounds AWESOME!! Plus it meets my favorite criteria.....it seems fairly easy!!

Thanks for sharing!

Delicious!!! Definitely trying this!!

Y'all - I survived my 2 weeks post op with the food network channel!! I know it sounds weird, but it really seemed to help. Now I have all these ideas for making savory, high protein meals...

I know the crackers aren't low carb - but the 4 aren't terrible when divided into about 5 patties......but you need a binder with the egg.....

Let me know how you like it...

I am looking forward to some of the ricotta cups, but I am sad that eggs are so low protein.....with a small tummy, I really want to hit my 60-70g of protein a day...and eggs won't cut it because I can't eat 3 of them!!!!

I am thinking a Tuna Salad is in my future!! But the crab cakes are great for a hot meal!!

Hello -

I was sleeved July 2nd and have been SOOO looking forward to some soft foods. I made this and ate one for breakfast today!! Who says you can't have crab for breakfast?! My goal is 60-70g of Protein a day, and if I can do that without drinking a shake - I am all for it!

1 can/jar fresh picked crab (mine was 12 oz) HEB Plus carries some good stuff!

1 egg

2 TBLSP Cream cheese

1/4 C. fresh SHREDDED parmesan

4 Ritz crackers

1 tsp. Old Bay spice

1/2 tsp onion powder

1 tsp Cayenne Pepper (I like spicy - leave out if you don't!!)

Mix together - weigh out 3 oz portions

heat a TINY bit of olive oil i a pan, put crab into pan, flatten out and let sizzle - about 3-4 minutes on medium, then flip for another 3-4 minutes.

Sauce:

I cup sour cream

i small/medium avacado - add into sour cream

1/4 cup diced cilantro (leave out if you are one of those unfortunate souls that doesn't like it!)

juice of one lime

(can even add some capers if you like)

Serve on side of your crabby Pattie - I can eat about 3/4 of one patty - and I am hitting about 22g of protein -

YUM!!!!

How many patties does this make?

how much sauce do you put for one pattie? I need to find out the carbs and stuff so I need these quantities please.

How many patties does this make?

how much sauce do you put for one pattie? I need to find out the carbs and stuff so I need these quantities please.

I plugged in the recipe to MFP and made it to serve 4 people based on the 3oz patty that she said she made and given that it has 12oz of crab meat. It shows to be 272 calories, 22 grams of Protein, 5 grams of sugar and 11 carbs. That also takes into consideration the sauce and dividing it evenly as well. Hope that helps!

I am thinking of making this using shrimp..if it will work...

I will not be using the sauce, so I will plug it in without that. I guess it makes about four three ounce patties.

130 calories, 17.5 grams of protein, 13 carbs, 3 grams of sugar...without the sauce.

I got different numbers alltogether....lol. I got 170 cal, 24 protein and 3 carbs with no sauce. What is giving you the high carbs? I put in whipped cream cheese.. maybe thats the difference.

It ended up making 5 patties (because of the added ingredients to the mixture)......I am surprised the carbs were that high - with 5 crackers, I figured about 1 cracker per pattie.......no carbs anywhere else.....

Anyway......very good, glad you liked it - and I am sure shrimp or a white fish would be great as well!

11 grams of carbs with wheat ritz crackers....

I got 9 grams of carbs for all of them and it divided it between the whole recipe. It said 4 total crackers right? they only have about 2 carbs per cracker so it cant be more than 9 for the whole recipe then divided by four crab cakes.... also it gave me 1 g of carbs for the egg.

Thanks shannon!!! Sounds yummy!