Recipe - Crab Cakes With Sweet Peppers And Capers

2 lg Eggs
1 cup Flour
1 cup Whole milk
1 teaspoon Chopped fresh thyme
1 Scallion; minced
1 tablespoon Chopped fresh parsley
1 ds Tabasco sauce
16 ounce Dungeness crab meat; cooked
1 pn Each salt and pepper
or to taste
2 teaspoon Doubleacting baking powder
7 ounce Butter; clarified
1 cup Beurre blanc
One fourth cup Red, yellow and green bell
peppers
julienned, 2" long
1 tablespoon Minced fresh chives
4 teaspoon Capers

Making the batter: Using a small whisk, combine the flour with eggs and
milk. Strain through a fine strainer to remove any lumps. Add the
following ingredients: thyme, scallion, parsley and Tabasco. Season with
salt and pepper. Mix well.

Note: Batter can be made a few hours in advance up to this point. Cover
and refrigerate until ready to use.

Just before cooking the crab cakes, add crab meat and baking powder to the
batter, combining gently, using a wooden spoon.

To cook the crab cakes, heat 2 oz. of clarified butter in a large frying
pan, at medium heat. Using a 2oz. ladle, make a batch of three cakes. Fry
gently on one side for 2 minutes, turn over and cook another 2 minutes.
Keep cakes warm, while cooking the various batches.

When serving crab cakes, spread One fourth cup warm beurre blanc on each plate.
Arrange 3 cakes per serving and top off with the julienned peppers and
chives. Sprinkle some capers around the cakes; serve.

Suggested wines: Farniente Chardonnay.

Recipe by Emile Labrousse of 1001 Nob Hill Restaurant, San Francisco.
Electronic format by Cathy Harned. Submitted By CCH@SALATA.COM (CATHY
HARNED) On 02 JAN 96 124006 0800

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