Dinner

Crab Cakes with Lime Yogurt and Leaves

Name: Crab Cakes with Lime Yogurt and Leaves
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 150 g White crab meat; 1 large, about 55 g Egg; 25 g Panko breadcrumbs; 30 g Spring onion; 1 tsp (6 g) Dijon mustard; Half a chilli, chopped fine Fresh red chilli; A handful, chopped Fresh coriander; 6 g Rapeseed oil; 60 g Greek yogurt, 0% fat; One lime Lime juice; 60 g Mixed salad leaves; 80 g Cucumber

Two crab cakes bound with egg and a little panko, fried in a teaspoon of oil, with a lime yogurt and a cucumber salad. 45 g of protein for 424 kcal.

Calories: 424kcal
Protein: 45g
Fat: 14g
Carbs: 25g

Per serving, makes 1. 25 minutes of work, then twenty minutes in the fridge before frying. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Gluten
Milk
Eggs
Crustaceans
Mustard

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Ingredients

White crab meat150 g
Cooked, as sold.
Egg1 large, about 55 g
Panko breadcrumbs25 g
Spring onion30 g
Dijon mustard1 tsp (6 g)
Fresh red chilliHalf a chilli, chopped fine
Fresh corianderA handful, chopped
Rapeseed oil6 g
Greek yogurt, 0% fat60 g
Lime juiceOne lime
Mixed salad leaves60 g
Cucumber80 g

Method

Mix the crab, egg, breadcrumbs, spring onion, mustard, chilli and most of the coriander with a pinch of salt. Shape into two thick cakes and put them in the fridge for twenty minutes to firm up.
Stir the yogurt with half the lime, the rest of the coriander and salt.
Heat the oil in a non-stick pan over a medium heat. Fry the cakes for four minutes a side without moving them, until deep golden and hot through.
Serve on the leaves and sliced cucumber with the rest of the lime squeezed over and the yogurt on the side.

Worth knowing

The fridge rest is what holds them together. Skip it and the first one breaks when you turn it. Twenty-five grams of panko is the minimum binder and keeps the cakes mostly crab.
A shop-bought crab cake is often a third breadcrumb and deep-fried, and comes in nearer 250 kcal each. These two together are 424 with the salad.

Other dinner recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every dinner between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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